Looks like it’s banned because it is aided by predictive text software?
Keyboard lets people type so fast it’s banned from typing competitions
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#392It’s surprising to me that stenography-esque chording hasn’t had a breakthrough moment among programmers. Most programmers love trading hotkey/shortcut recommendations, and software from vim to blender to photoshop show users have a deep interest in using shortcuts to become more efficient.
Hardware restrictions notwithstanding, if my keyboard driver/OS had convenient support for importing standardized maps that let me type `h-down, e-down, release` instead of “hello” I’d gladly (slowly) start using it
Re: Keyboard lets people type so fast it’s banned from typing competitions
#393It’s surprising to me that stenography-esque chording hasn’t had a breakthrough moment among programmers. Most programmers love trading hotkey/shortcut recommendations, and software from vim to blender to photoshop show users have a deep interest in using shortcuts to become more efficient. Hardware restrictions notwithstanding, if my keyboard driver/OS had convenient support for importing standardized maps that let…
I feel this is already what we get with IDE auto-completion and snippets.
Then some people push it further with personalized dictionaries and TextExpander like extensions at the OS level. I am not sure how much a dedicated hardware device would be an improvement, at least it wouldn't warrant the learning curve and portability issues to me personally.
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#394"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.
It's not 76% accuracy of the final text--it's 100% accurate, it's just that the way you get there using the CharaChorder is recognized by Monkeytype as inaccurate. If I type the word "hello" on my CharaChorder, I type the keys `helo` which Monkeytype will recognize as an inaccuracy. The CC's internal firmware then recognizes I typed helo and wanted hello and will backspace the word and replace it, much as if you did…
How does it know you weren’t intending for hole?
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#395Earlier quoted context omitted.
I own a CharaChorder and this is exactly right. Using the CC, you can't get 100% on monkeytype because when I type `helo` it then backspaces that and types `hello` using the CharaChorder's onboard firmware. The final text is 100% accurate--it's just what was typed by the keyboard wasn't 100% accurate.
What if you're debugging SMTP and you actually meant HELO?
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#396>You may soon see that coworker with the weird monolith style trackball mouse rocking this strange peripheral and claiming he’s upped his efficiency in ways you can’t possibly imagine. Since coding is 20% sitting in meetings, 50% reading code, 10% drawing on whiteboards or sticky notes, 15% drinking coffee, 4.5% fighting impostor syndrome and 0.5% actual typing, I think I am quite safe with my good 'ol QWERTY.
Doesn’t this argument go both ways? Given you have so little time left for actual coding, you should be squeezing every last bit out of it.
Depending of course if your meetings are necessary discussions, or just pointless constraints.
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#397Earlier quoted context omitted.
I own a CharaChorder and this is exactly right. Using the CC, you can't get 100% on monkeytype because when I type `helo` it then backspaces that and types `hello` using the CharaChorder's onboard firmware. The final text is 100% accurate--it's just what was typed by the keyboard wasn't 100% accurate.
What if you're debugging SMTP and you actually meant HELO?
Outlook, word and I think even google keyboard does the same thing. You have to basically type it again in them and they take it to mean you don't want it autocorrected.
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#398Earlier quoted context omitted.
Your own link explains that the phrase is a misnomer. You’re not pedantic; you’re just mistaken about others being wrong.
you have it backwards. the quote that you are referring to, that "a steep learning curve" is a misnomer, means it's a misnomer if by that you mean it's difficult. It's not wrong to say "steep learning curve" if you mean it's easy
That’s not how the phrase is used colloquially. You’re not even wrong, but your prescriptivism is at odds with common parlance.
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#399Maintaining such typing speeds look like a recipe for burnout to me. I think I could even see the CEO's hands trembling in the TikTok when he lifted them from the device after demonstrating 500 WPM. It certainly incurs a massive cognitive load, perhaps similar to what professional classical musicians can pull off—and they don't have invent the score at the same time as they are performing. Someone capable of decent t…
> they don't have invent the score at the same time as they are performing Do you mean “improvising”?
No, I was referring specifically to classical musicians who typically don't improvise.
Improvising musicians will almost certainly not sustain high note counts except in repetitive patterns. If you have an example that proves this wrong I would very much like to hear it ;)
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#400This looks awesome. Whether 500 WPM or not, I would give this a try.
Long ago I learned the BAT one hand chorded keyboard. For one hand typing, I got to around 50 or 60 wpm - but only prose. It was much too slow for programming, as symbols and modifiers required their own chord plus the chord of the final character. But with two hands, or even some modifier key foot switches or a second chord hand (like the CharaChorder), it should be fine.