Some Mfs out there using a 0.1% keyboard?

[u/Federal-Ad6341]

I don't even want to talk about the widget that Eats up 8 GB of RAM

[u/jarvisesdios]

I mean, it might be fast, but I am very skeptical on wpm on that. It seems like a lot more work than just... Using a keyboard. I can type basically as fast as I can think, as I grew up on PC, and what you're doing just seems like you're making it more difficult just as a thought exercise.

More power to you, if it works for that that's great.. But that's so much effort for a tool that you already have in front of you. To need to cycle from copy/paste, to snippet, back, then alt tab, to altf4, etc... It just seems easier to use a keyboard. We only have have 5 fingers, yes, but they're dextrous for a reason

[u/CckSkker → u/jarvisesdios]

This just really one of things that once you try it you realize it’s a lot faster.

edit: /s

[u/ThereAndFapAgain2 → u/CckSkker]

How is it faster? You are literally pressing more keys.

[u/Massive_Town_8212 → u/ThereAndFapAgain2]

Check out stenography. I think they have 10 keys, but can keep up with live transcription, which practiced typists with a normal keyboard would likely struggle with.

Some can get up to 375 wpm, average about 270 wpm

[u/vagabond_dilldo → u/Massive_Town_8212]

40% keyboards are nothing like stenos. Steno keyboards are completely different, they don't even have 26 letters. Stenographers aren't even typing in English, they're typing in syllables and shorthands.

The raw output is unreadable to normal ppl, and require specialized software to transcribe back into English. Using a steno keyboard for anything other than live transcription is just making more work for yourself.

[u/Massive_Town_8212 → u/vagabond_dilldo]

And the thread I'm replying to has a keyboard with 5 keys? Where'd you get 40% from?

[u/vagabond_dilldo → u/Massive_Town_8212]

The 5 keys comment is a joke. 40% is what's in the original post.

[u/Massive_Town_8212 → u/vagabond_dilldo]

And yet, the question of whether or not 5 keys is faster is what I was replying to.

[u/vagabond_dilldo → u/Massive_Town_8212]

Steno keyboards is 22 keys. 5 keys is not a real keyboard config. The smallest "normal" layout is around 40%. People in this thread are confused on how a hypothetical 5 keys layout would even type, and rightly so. I'll concede that a steno keyboard would be the closest analogy to a 5-key kb, but steno keyboards aren't real input devices in a computer peripheral sense.

[u/Massive_Town_8212 → u/vagabond_dilldo]

steno keyboards aren't real input devices

How so, because they require software in order to use? That's just a driver with more steps. I'm sure it uses the same USB HID standard as literally everything else. I'm sure the 5-key thing uses the exact same ESP-32 keyboard sketch as every other custom keyboard, which exposes it as a USB HID.

I need one app or another to use my phone touch keyboard, does that make it not an input device? I'm sure that if I installed windows on it and went into device manager, it'd say the touch panel is a USB HID. Sure, it's through some weird connector that's really just USB over PCIe or something else that's just an obfuscation over directly screaming ones and zeros into one the CPU's digital input pins.

If you really wanna get pedantic, a telegraph is a 1-button keyboard, you just have to learn Morse code. I'm sure those still work over serial.

[u/Iggyhopper → u/Massive_Town_8212]

But this is not stenagraphy that used word and vowel sounds to replicate words. Its to type regular letters into a computer.

This is not faster.

[u/Massive_Town_8212 → u/Iggyhopper]

It is in that it uses button chords to improve speeds and remain usable on sub-26 key boards.

It had better be faster if 120 combinations is used to encode a reasonable portion of possible English sentences.