I wanted to copy-paste all of dilp's work, since it seems that he's stopped making commits specifically for Taipo. After looking around to see if I could just download a single folder in a repo, I somehow found my way into opening a PR for my own repo:

Unfortunately, RGBLIGHT_ENABLE = yes still doesn't work, but I found out that reducing Taipo_tap_timeout from the default 150 to 50 made things MUCH more responsive:

I started looking in the only parts of code that would likely conflict with something RGB related:

From my understanding:

1. TP_TLP's numerical keycode is the smallest numerical keycode, so var key is a number between 0 and 19
2. The state to work on is then determined, as key / 10 would truncate to int 0 if key is less than 10 and truncate to int 1 if over.
3. In dilp's actual layouts, the only things on _TAIPO are TP_ keys and KC_NO, so line 1181 probably deals with that.
4. Not sure exactly what the rest of the first function is doing
5. the second function seems to check if both the state timer is non-0 and passed the time allocated...

and that's about the extent of my understanding. I'm sure the code is dealing with things like holding the ' y ' combo being able to result in "yyyyyyyyyyy" sent to the host. I'm just trying to understand what could be the issue with RGBs and if I could implement something like TAIPO_PREFER_LEFT and TAIPO_PREFER_RIGHT so that it's possible to choose between a Keyboard Cat--esque typing style and a stenography-esque style.

I also tried to add unicode characters to my layout, but I got unexpected behaviour:

This was also the time when I realised that there are keys in the layout that expect both thumb buttons to be pressed, for which I can't hit reliably (likely due to my keycap shape):

Finally, I could now start practicing in Ngram Type:

I started trying to alternate all the time, but I found it was easier to understand the finger movements if I just did one round with only my left and one round with only my right hand. Then I wanted to look ahead and see if there'd be any issues with my current setup before I hardcoded my neural network into a corner.

And there was. There are also parts where the fingers need to hit both keys. I figured out how to angle my fingers in the gap to get both keys to reliably depress, and it's probably a good thing I've got those light Gateron Clears installed. However, I had to increase the tap timeout. I was also having issues with things like ctrl + s, and while timeout = 300 solved it, it caused keys to merge with the OuterThumb, which will capitalize the letter instead of add a space:

I got the problem to mostly go away at Timeout = 108 whilst still being able to CTRL + S with 1 hand:

In terms of practice, I'd've spent around 3 hours. All this happened yesterday+day before and I'm typing the log today.