Crowdfunding News – CharCoder’s Mission is “to increase the average human text transmission speed (40 wpm) to and exceed the average human text comprehension speed (250 wpm).” Their first product is an odd-looking gadget that allows users to type through chords, but it certainly doesn’t work like a normal keyboard, limiting who can use it.
Their latest product, the CharCoder Lite, does both; that is, it looks and works like a normal keyboard, but it also has chords.If you are not familiar with chords, the idea is that it “allows the user to enter characters or commands formed by pressing several keys simultaneously, like playing a ‘chord’ on a piano.”
How does this work? You press a few keys at a time, and the software on the keyboard itself will correct those letters to the most likely word. Typing five letters at a time instead of one at a time should significantly improve your typing speed, assuming it corrects the letters to the correct word and typists can retrain their brains to use chords. This is an interesting idea.
CharCode Lite is a crowdfunding Last year, the company was Currently taking reservations Do another round of fabrication. For $199, they estimate you’ll receive your new keyboard in March 2022. what do you think? Will it help you type faster?
