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

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

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Post by prirun »

half-kh-hacker wrote: post #169
omegalulw wrote: post #34

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Yup, having to type unseen text makes a lot of difference. Here's what I personally use to test my keyboard setups: monkeytype.com. My best is ~95 WPM and 100% accuracy.

I like typing :) Here's 163 wpm on a macbook keyboard: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-ulK2VJdQpw Here's 175 wpm on a custom mechanical keyboard: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kO-A8rVJDOM

No idea how they can type that fast with those long finger nails!

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Post by Accacin »

nikanj wrote: post #102
disiplus wrote: post #64

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https://youtube.com/shorts/ZCtn5ROOdmY?feature=share

The performance in that video is nothing like the performance in the 500 WPM video. Accuracy is well under 100%, and he seems to be actually inputting random words - not just macroing a pre-defined phrase.

I don't mean to be rude, but did you even watch it? He explains the firmware deletes a word when it detects a chord which skews the accuracy.

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

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Post by kmlx »

jtsiskin wrote: post #13

Fascinating. This is the first article I’ve read where the source is exclusively tiktok videos

Keen, CEO of the keyboard company, is mentioned several times.

At the end of the article:

> Keen did not return Motherboard’s request for comment.

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Post by jaqalopes »

A lot of people are expressing doubt about the utility of faster typing speed--rightly so, since that is the focus of the article. However, as a prose writer, I'm actually quite excited about this kind of device. When I'm typing 50,000+ characters of prose per week, every week, that's a lot of finger strain with a QWERTY keyboard--and I feel it. If a device let me accomplish that work with less net impact on my hands, even if it wasn't any faster, I would embrace that in a heartbeat.

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Post by Accacin »

zck wrote: post #154
bastardoperator wrote: post #99

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I'd say it's a lot suspect. Couple this with the fact that he scored 267 WPM with 76% accuracy in another competition. Until we see more and it gets more accurate I'm not sure typing this fast is very meaningful if I'm going to have to fix 24% of what I just typed.

I bet the 76% accuracy is coming from the CharaChorder's input method. From its website ( https://www.charachorder.com/product-page/charachorder ): > CharaChorder’s internal processor arranges the letters on-screen in real time faster than the human eye can perceive. So if it inputs one word, deletes it, and writes a new word every time you press a new letter, that would result in some decreased accuracy, even if the…

Yeah, this thread is full of people who didn't take enough time to read anything. We're all too quick nowadays to get angry and type without thinking, sadly.

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Post by ericpruitt »

TulliusCicero wrote: post #177
ericpruitt wrote: post #172

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Check out https://youtu.be/Lw1tcqbFwN4?t=867 which talks about some of the advantages of stickless controllers. That link points to a particular timestamp, but the video as a whole is pretty interesting IMO.

I'm aware, I just don't see how this would provide an advantage over already existing methods like hitboxes, or regular keyboards.

Your original comment read "keyboard provide a substantial advantage" without specifying an advantage over what, so I assumed you meant an advantage of the most commonly use controllers, not advantage over other stickless controllers. Even ignoring that, stickless controllers are still very much a minority, so an advantage over traditional controllers would still be a large advantage over the pool of competitors especially at lower levels.

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Post by AQuantized »

TehShrike wrote: post #108
cafard wrote: post #57

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Back in the manual typewriter days, every typo subtracted 10 WPM from your score. (Source: my junior-high typing class.) It seems to me that 76% accuracy would put you into negative WPM by that reckoning.

I like TypeRacer's approach – your time includes the time it takes you to backspace to fix your mistakes and re-type it correctly.

I don't think it's bad for 'competitive' typing but it's nothing like the real process where fixing mistakes at the end is almost a triviality instead of completely derailing your typing.

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

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Post by kazinator »

> Instead of typing h e l l o, a chorded typer mashes h, e, l, and o to produce the word.

So, no, it won't be typing "cadddr" for you in your Lisp code when you mash c, a, d, r. Probably, "card".

Of course it's banned from typing competitions; you're not actually typing the word; the algorithm is.

From the contest's point of view, it's morally equivalent to a regular QWERTY keyboard equipped with firmware that corrects typos.

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