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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
#242This is interesting to me not because of the typing speed but because of something almost everyone will find weird: As a developer I'm not a fan of typing due to health reasons. The long story: I have an undiagnosed disease/syndrome which, among other things, makes my fingertips become red and cold during winter season, and it gets worse when I'm typing. So in the summer I can pretty much type all day. It's not that…
Try going gluten free for 2 months. Seriously. Family member had issues like this and tried many docs. No results after lots of testing. Tried going off gluten for other reasons and everything cleared.
To go gluten free, only eat foods that are certified gluten free. Anything with any kind of grain that is not certified likely has cross contamination.
Re: Keyboard lets people type so fast it’s banned from typing competitions
#243Earlier quoted context omitted.
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…
could they not do that on device and only spit out the correct characters when it feels certain?
I don't see why not. The UX would not be as good, though.
Re: Keyboard lets people type so fast it’s banned from typing competitions
#244Is it me, or does this article look suspiciously like an ad?
On the one hand, yeah the "controversy" here seems rather dumb. It's banned from a website where people compare their typing speeds, big whoop. And the discussion about its possible advantage in games like Smash is similarly stupid, seeing as there already are similar controllers.
On the other hand, it admittedly seems like it could be a nice development in consumer stenography. I'm only aware of open-source stuff like Plover, which I never got around to trying.
I admit that if the sensationalism and fake drama were stripped, the article would probably read like a product endorsement. So I guess me saying, "I'm OK with ads if they're cool" is itself a dumb defense.
Re: Keyboard lets people type so fast it’s banned from typing competitions
#245Earlier quoted context omitted.
your missing replying on hacker news, chatting on slack, chatting on whatever othe rchat program you use, etc.
That's the real use case here, get your comments out faster on hacker news than everyone else!
Where else does one learn to _really_ type quickly besides hurrying messages into a game chat?
Re: Keyboard lets people type so fast it’s banned from typing competitions
#246Earlier quoted context omitted.
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!
They increase stiffness. You hit the keys with the hard nail instead of the squishy flesh of your fingers, which reduces jitter and improves timing accuracy.
(I'm a fast typer, but not as fast as that one, also with long-ish --- around 0.050" --- fingernails.)
Re: Keyboard lets people type so fast it’s banned from typing competitions
#247Fascinating. This is the first article I’ve read where the source is exclusively tiktok videos
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Re: Keyboard lets people type so fast it’s banned from typing competitions
#248The "500 WPM" video is a little suspect. He types literally one memorized sentence and extrapolates a WPM from that one 10 word sentence. I'd like to see him actually type 500 meaningful words in under 60 seconds. Anyway, this is cool but basically just a modern stenography device. Steno has a learning curve problem that makes it so most people won't use it.
This article reads as a PR piece to promote that specific product. No mention of Plover or http://www.openstenoproject.org
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Re: Keyboard lets people type so fast it’s banned from typing competitions
#249The "500 WPM" video is a little suspect. He types literally one memorized sentence and extrapolates a WPM from that one 10 word sentence. I'd like to see him actually type 500 meaningful words in under 60 seconds. Anyway, this is cool but basically just a modern stenography device. Steno has a learning curve problem that makes it so most people won't use it.
To me, it comes down to this line:
> have a computer program generate a predicted word
Do steno devices do this? This right there easily disqualifies it from competitions. It's like using the keyboard autocomplete. If you're using a machine to predict and correctly type the word for you, it defeats half the point of typing competitions, which is specifically about typing words without typos. The majority of time lost in these typing races is when you make a typo and have to go back to correct it.
Also, separately, I know HN skews more towards pogrammers, and I feel these keyboards wouldn't be very useful for that.
Re: Keyboard lets people type so fast it’s banned from typing competitions
#250The "500 WPM" video is a little suspect. He types literally one memorized sentence and extrapolates a WPM from that one 10 word sentence. I'd like to see him actually type 500 meaningful words in under 60 seconds. Anyway, this is cool but basically just a modern stenography device. Steno has a learning curve problem that makes it so most people won't use it.
The video from the product site makes it clear that it's not really typing. More like matching chords to a rather small list of words: https://www.charachorder.com/ Great for tiktok demo videos I guess.
I suppose then we are getting into the nitty gritty of what the definition of typing is. Typing to me is entering text data. For me, if I use something like Swype on my phone, where I don't even have to hit the actual letters I am trying to type, I would still call it typing. This device looks like it's matching a chord made up of the majority of the letters of a word to the expected word. I would still call that typing. Just like driving with adaptive cruise control, lane keeping assist, and automatic emergency breaking would still be called driving for me.