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Post by TulliusCicero »

ericschn wrote: post #157
TulliusCicero wrote: post #134

> Keen also claimed that he’d won several online gaming competitions using the CharaChorder, which he says brings up an interesting ethical dilemma. “I’m not sure if there’s any restrictions on what keyboards you’re allowed to use,” he said over a video of him playing Super Smash Bros. Ultimate on the Nintendo Switch, using his CharaChorder running through a XIM-style adapter. As someone who's somewhat familiar with…

There has been conversation happening regarding tournament play legality of digital input controllers for the Smash Bros games, most notably Super Smash Brothers Melee. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smash_Box_controller

Yes, but things like regular keyboards, or hitboxes already exist. How does this new thing improve on those?

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Post by dathinab »

This is probably the best advertisement they could get ;=)

Not saying that it's bought or anything, just that as a company focused on a value-delivering-product such articles are just awesome.

Especially when the article only focused on your good sites.

(No ideas about bad sites, but price ($250, not absurd for that market), compatibility with less usual hand-forms, and it not fitting well with a travel laptop setup (more size needed) are probably some).

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Post by willhinsa »

nepeckman wrote: post #90
jhauris wrote: post #62

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I consider typing speed the I/O of the operation. Sure there's some processing time while you think of what to type, but regardless of how long that takes, typing will slow it down further. I'm not perfectly parallelized in thinking/typing pipelines.

I agree with the analogy, but for me (and I think most people) processing time far exceeds IO. Once you get to a good enough IO speed, it doesnt make sense to optimize further, as the returns are diminishing.

For programming, I can see that, definitely. But when I'm writing an essay, there are many times where I can't type as fast as I can think, and it drives me nuts. I end up resorting to using a voice recorder and transcribing it later. Because sometimes the ideas can come out quickly, but it's still easy to forget them if they're not written down.

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Post by selfhoster11 »

mjh2539 wrote: post #104

Is this wireless? I've always thought it would be cool to be able to walk and type at the same time. I always seem to get great ideas while walking and it's tedious having to stop and write them down.

Is there any reason you wouldn't use a standalone pocket sound recorder, or alternatively the sound recorder app on your phone?

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Post by Yizahi »

bombcar wrote: post #8
prirun wrote: post #2

"he did win another typing competition using the CharaChorder to hit 267 WPM with 76% accuracy." 76% accuracy doesn't sound so great to me, no matter how fast I can type on it.

Interviewer: "I heard you were extremely quick at math" Me: "yes, as a matter of fact I am" Interviewer: "Whats 14x27" Me: "49" Interviewer: "that's not even close" me: "yeah, but it was fast" Shamelessly stolen, but yeah, 76% accuracy is only 3/4s of characters typed correctly; if that "works" you could probably just train yourself to not even type the lesser used parts of the alphabet ...

Lik zis:

https://www.reddit.com/r/Jokes/comments/2o4rkq/english_to_be...

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Post by rightbyte »

bee_rider wrote: post #147
rightbyte wrote: post #119

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I never learned to write on a keyboard in a controlled way and I still can't 'touch type' naturally. I tried to learn in, but I always fall back to my old habits since my right hand hurt otherwise. I don't think I will ever bother getting fast. It is probably way better to learn it properly from the beginning.

For some reason whenever I try to touch type 'correctly' I make typos. But I do get most of my fingers in play when typing normally. I just have a weird stance -- left index on f, right middle on j, right pinky on p. Index and middle fingers do a little extra work, left pinky is mostly reserved for control keys -- esc, crtl... I dunno. I don't have anywhere near 60 words per minute that are actually worth recording.

Ye since private computer chatting essentially died out I see no use for fast typing anymore. When I and all my friends communicated via computer text typing fast would have been really convenient.

Ergonomic typing however, I guess is important. And I am bad at that. Looking down to find the keys might be a bad habit? I have almost trained that away.

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Post by Hesinde »

bee_rider wrote: post #147
rightbyte wrote: post #119

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I never learned to write on a keyboard in a controlled way and I still can't 'touch type' naturally. I tried to learn in, but I always fall back to my old habits since my right hand hurt otherwise. I don't think I will ever bother getting fast. It is probably way better to learn it properly from the beginning.

For some reason whenever I try to touch type 'correctly' I make typos. But I do get most of my fingers in play when typing normally. I just have a weird stance -- left index on f, right middle on j, right pinky on p. Index and middle fingers do a little extra work, left pinky is mostly reserved for control keys -- esc, crtl... I dunno. I don't have anywhere near 60 words per minute that are actually worth recording.

I think the point of touch typing is not about being able to type a novel per month, but about spending less mental effort on typing. No matter whether you touch type "properly" or not, the ability to keep focusing on the screen eliminates micro context switches between thinking and typing.

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Post by samstave »

UH, you guys dont recall that this keyboard came out in the 80s?

And it was designed so that you can have them on your thighs and type whilst standing with arms at relaxed hanging?

I loved the idea of chorded-keyboards and I posted in the past about an engineer famous at intel for coding on them on his recumbant bike he would ride to the santa clara campus down san thomas expressway - connecting via a satellite phone and coding in binary in his head as he rode his boke and typed on these guys...

Re: Keyboard lets people type so fast it’s banned from typing competitions

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Post by rightbyte »

dntrkv wrote: post #145
rightbyte wrote: post #119

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I never learned to write on a keyboard in a controlled way and I still can't 'touch type' naturally. I tried to learn in, but I always fall back to my old habits since my right hand hurt otherwise. I don't think I will ever bother getting fast. It is probably way better to learn it properly from the beginning.

A while back I decided to fix some of my bad keyboard habits. I forget the software I used, but it took me about 2 weeks of daily 15 minute practice to fix many of my bad habits and improve my typing skills in general. I’ve been thinking about doing it again because I still have some remaining bad habits, especially with the pinkies. Well worth the effort, at least for me.

I did about the same and I got alot better, but I think I need to practice a bit more to not fall back when I don't think about it.
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