Is CharaChorder actually that much faster? The examples in their video didn’t seem that impressive; it was basically the same speed I type at on a QWERTY keyboard, and while I type at an above-average speed I’m not like.. secretary level or anything.
Maybe you have looked at a weird video. There are two things you can do on the CharaChorder. You can enter characters one by one in character mode, or you can press multiple characters at the same time and then they get automatically rearranged into words. Based on all the characters that you have entered. If you just do character entry I would expect it’s not much faster than a keyboard. But the power comes from being able to press many keys at the same time and then immediately have a word or phrase pop up.
I noticed while typing this comment that I didn’t type quite as fast as them, but mostly because I was trying to compose what I wanted to write, not because I couldn’t type faster.
Based on some people that I talked to, it seems like you could get much faster than this. I spoke with one person that was a stenographer before and they said they could reach 200 words per minute. And what they are doing in the video is probably 120 words per minute. I’m not sure. Anyway, I think the best way to input text is using whisper speech-to-text right now anyway. At least if you take into account the learning curve and AI timelines.
If you don’t have issues with your current typing speed, like the ones I would describe in this comment, then probably it’s not worth for you to learn it.
Is CharaChorder actually that much faster? The examples in their video didn’t seem that impressive; it was basically the same speed I type at on a QWERTY keyboard, and while I type at an above-average speed I’m not like.. secretary level or anything.
Maybe you have looked at a weird video. There are two things you can do on the CharaChorder. You can enter characters one by one in character mode, or you can press multiple characters at the same time and then they get automatically rearranged into words. Based on all the characters that you have entered. If you just do character entry I would expect it’s not much faster than a keyboard. But the power comes from being able to press many keys at the same time and then immediately have a word or phrase pop up.
I watched the video on https://www.charachorder.com/products/charachorder-one (the one with the kid with glasses). They type somewhat fast but it didn’t really seem that much faster than I type with a QWERTY keyboard.
I noticed while typing this comment that I didn’t type quite as fast as them, but mostly because I was trying to compose what I wanted to write, not because I couldn’t type faster.
Based on some people that I talked to, it seems like you could get much faster than this. I spoke with one person that was a stenographer before and they said they could reach 200 words per minute. And what they are doing in the video is probably 120 words per minute. I’m not sure. Anyway, I think the best way to input text is using whisper speech-to-text right now anyway. At least if you take into account the learning curve and AI timelines.
If you don’t have issues with your current typing speed, like the ones I would describe in this comment, then probably it’s not worth for you to learn it.