500 WPM Keyboard?

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[ThePrimeTimeagen]

wait... i didn't know about the ending until right now...

[anlumo]

Please try that "keyboard"! Sounds very interesting for programming.
Chorded keyboards have the problem that they're trained for English words, which often conflicts with programming.

[josebriceno]

I have been using the Charachorder as my daily driver for a couple of months now. It will definitely take more than a week for you to reach 40WPM.
You'll love the ergonomics and lack of finger mobility—you can completely ditch your mouse, even if you already use things like vimium, this takes it to another level in which no app requires you to lift your fingers off of the device.

[theglowpt]

I'm guessing the 76% accuracy is because it types the letters in the order you mash them in before completing them into the full word

[CharaChorder]

Thanks for your interest! If anyone has questions about CharaChorder technology feel free to reply to this comment ❤

[mathijsfrank]

"my keyboard is too fast for typing competitions" "my keyboard is too good for gaming" is very good marketing. I think he was quite happy with the result...

[andythedishwasher]

Wow chat really bunged the cheater poll on this one. Only one 420 and no 69s. Disappointing performance, chat. We'll need to have a talk with your supervisor.

[austinbachurski]

Basically stenography, I really wonder how it would work for programming, how much you have to either train or configure the 'autocorrect' - I'd be curious to see how well it would work if you simply disabled the auto side and just typed with it.

[crash_often]

Thanks for your interest, always happy to be a 'strong reoccurring character' in anyone's story 😄The article is wrong about my accuracy in that competition; it was 100%, not 76%. The baby version is actually called BabyChorder haha, that video is on the CharaChorder YouTube channel and my kids love it.

[aredrih]

As mentioned in other comments, predicting word when typing in english is one thing, predicting variableName is another. Not unthinkable but it would probably need custom software interracting with the LSP.

Also, I've seen another channel trying it out and the way chord seemed to be implemented is by typing wrong char, then backspace over the incorrect char and input the proper word. Not sure if its still the case but 1) it would explain the 76% accuracy and 2) it assume backspace rollback 1 char which is not the case with shortcut or vim.

[fib]

It's not actually "70%" or what he got in the tournament. That number just gets outputed because of the way it inputs characters once you chord.
It's actually 100% most of the time because of the chording, unless you're typing the entire wrong words.
> Input multiple chars sloppy (artificial inaccuracy)
> CharaChorder detects chord
> Deletes chars and replaces with word

[nodemodules]

Alternative title "Prime's CharaCoder arc trailer"

[sohn]

The thing with steno-like keyboards is that they kinda suck for programming where things you type aren’t necessarily words seperated by spacing

[ettu]

I mean the chorded typing is basically using macros, which should obviously be banned from any tournament. If there's no easy way to prove someone using this keyboard isn't using macros, might as well just ban the thing.

[pythonBlender]

Also just btw I used to type on colmak exclusively and it's amazing but ultimately switched back to qwerty because it became too embarrassing to type in front of my bosses and other higher ups at meetings while looking at my keyboard. Seriously I think it hurt my promotion prospects at one point. I also used an ergodox, still do but I also use a planck at work and laptop board when out and about. I can jugle all of those layouts pretty well now because I switched back to qwerty. On all 3 boards I can hit up to (only) 75 wpm on monkey type. I use the same layering system on the two custom boards.

Just wanted to say this so you know you're not alone prime. The transitions were killer and I miss colmak so much but ultimately it has been extremely rewarding to not be tied down to my custom boards. Seriously it's been a stupidly huge improvement in my life I can't recommend it enough. MAYBE one day I will return and try to hold both in my head at once but that would be difficult now that I'm so into neovim. I know that you use Dvorak with neovim with no remaps (basically) but I briefly tried that and it just made my brain hurt. So I guess for me relearning qwerty also gave me back neovim. Definitely worth the trade.

Again just wanted to share experience to you from a guy who's basically been in the same spot as you.

[sebsplatter]

Looked up a couple of vids trying to code with it and it seems to pair pretty badly with vim's command structure because it frequently "corrects" the commands to real words.

[tylermfdurden]

I looked around on YouTube for people actually typing with the keyboard, and other than TikTok shorts that all seem sus, most videos of people reviewing the keyboard after a month or so of use are typing like 40 WPM.

Like, sure if you practice chording a specific sentence you can macro it in so fast that the program tells you 500 WPM. I could write a macro that converts ctrl+z to input the full text of The Count of Monte Cristo but that doesn't mean I can type a million words a minute. Trying to find videos of people typing more than 12 words... none of them are even hitting 100+

[divinusnobilite]

The problem is I don't think at 500 WPM.

[rich]

That thing is just an ergo-steno. Of course it's fast.

[tanman]

strager used it for a month and ended up not recommending it for a number of reasons. I don't think it works as well (especially the chording aspect) when you are programming or using Vim.