Looking at the CharaChorder Lite version — can’t this be done via software implementation with a n-key rollover keyboard? I’d like to try it but not $200 like to try it.
I agree. It really feels like it should be a PLOVER dictionary.
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
#322This 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…
Envavo Heatbuff was invented to help this. Unfortunately they seem to have gone out of business
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#323Earlier quoted context omitted.
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 espe…
If it provides no more advantage than an existing non-standard controller, than this news piece is a complete non-story. Or at least, that bit of the piece is a non-story.
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#324Earlier quoted context omitted.
playing the devil's advocate, typing speed is important for these reasons: 1. It allows for minimal disruption to thinking process, close to 90% of the time even when coding is not actively typing, but when typing is subconscious and fast it removes the potential of where it interrupts the thinking process. 2. While this has no bearing on individual case (It would be Bayesian, some people consider that to be heretic)…
> It allows for minimal disruption to thinking process Willing to dive into this a bit more? My personal experience is different so I figure this is a chance to learn something new. The subjective character of typing experience for me is like riding a bike, driving a car, walking, or speaking. That is to say that unless I'm mountain biking, off-roading, on a balance beam, or trying to say a tongue twister, for the mo…
The easiest way to experience this is to remove 3 key caps from your keyboard eg. from T K and C. It will destroy your flow.
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#325Earlier quoted context omitted.
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.
Since WPM is a rate, and total typos is an accumulated values, it seems that whether this would bring you negative is a function of the test length. Seem like it would make test scores not very portable.
The way it was explained to me years ago is that every error deducts an amount (probably 10, I don't remember exactly) from the running total of correct characters typed (WPM was calculated by dividing the number of characters by the time and by a fixed "average" word length (ISTR they used 6 (in Dutch)).
So if you type 100 characters and 24 of them are incorrect, the counted total is 100 - 10*24 This was in the time of typewriters; computerized text entry did exist but was certainly not ubiquitous. There was no real way to correct mistakes, so I can imagine typing correctly from the beginning was a bigger deal than it is now.
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#326Earlier quoted context omitted.
The learning curve for stenography is much higher. With a keyboard, the buttons do exactly what they say and that only. With a stenography machine, every possible combination of buttons does a different thing. When typing the word "Unprepared" on a keyboard, you just have to look at the buttons and find each of the ones with those labels, and hit them in sequence. To type the word "Unprepared" on a steno machine, you…
Keyboards that use multiplexed row/column electrical matrix will not allow you to detect more than two keys in any box pattern simultaneously. So pressing more than two keys on that virtual steno keyboard is impossible on a regular keyboard (for many key combinations).
multiplexed row/col is not problem here. By adding more components (1 normal diode per key) you can detect all pressed keys.
Normal keyboard can detect even 4 keys (not all combination ofc) by clever design.
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#327This is really cool.
I'm not sure I want to _use_ it, my experiments with chorded phone keyboards have uniformly been blah. But, I really like it and want to see people using it.
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#328Earlier quoted context omitted.
QWERTY has a steep learning curve as well, it’s just that it’s so ubiquitous that most people don’t question or remember the work that was put into.
I, and I think many other people, didn't really 'work' at learning to type. We just practiced as a side effect of using the computer rather than, say, taking typing lessons. For someone like me, QWERTY has a difficulty curve. I think seno technically wouldn't have a curve. The inability to hunt and peck means that without explicitly setting aside time to train in steno, there isn't any way to make real progress. Math…
When I was a kid I got an ATARI 600XL I'd type in code for hours into memory just to have it fail due to errors. But I got good at typing at only age 14.
Then a few years later as teenagers do in high school I choose typing class since all my friends did. So I learned more typing unusual for a guy at that time mid 1980s.
Then IRC when I got onto the Internet in the early 1990s. You had to type very fast to get in a jab or a joke before someone else did.
Now I'm in IT and typing is ubiquitous.
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#329Earlier quoted context omitted.
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…
That sounds even more like cheating.
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#330Earlier quoted context omitted.
I'm having difficulties finding the source right now, but I remember reading a story about a sysadmin that was berated for his typing speed and the story ended with him replying "I don't get paid to type code fast, I get paid to press enter very, very slowly."
playing the devil's advocate, typing speed is important for these reasons: 1. It allows for minimal disruption to thinking process, close to 90% of the time even when coding is not actively typing, but when typing is subconscious and fast it removes the potential of where it interrupts the thinking process. 2. While this has no bearing on individual case (It would be Bayesian, some people consider that to be heretic)…
It allows for minimal disruption to thinking process, close to 90% of the time even when coding is not actively typing, but when typing is subconscious and fast it removes the potential of where it interrupts the thinking process.
This arguments wholly arbitrary. Maybe someone who types slowly will put a lot of thought into each word and create fewer bugs. Who knows? Why argue random claims you pull out of the air?