Keyboard lets people type so fast it’s banned from typing competitions

Re:Keyboard lets people type so fast it’s banned from typing... by hn_throwaway_99 on Thursday January 06, 2022 @02:52PM (#29828996)

"with 76% accuracy" - I'm surprised typing competitions even allow scores below some accuracy level, e.g. 95% or so. Missing every fourth letter means it's basically gobbeldygook, and if you were actually typing anything where you even needed to be remotely accurate you'd spend at least 2x as much time revising.

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Re:Keyboard lets people type so fast it’s banned from typing... by voxl on Thursday January 06, 2022 @02:59PM (#29829118)

The accuracy measurement is flawed, because the firmware of the device is deleting chorded letters and retyping the chorded word, which artificially reduces accuracy

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Re:Keyboard lets people type so fast it’s banned from typing... by umvi on Thursday January 06, 2022 @03:10PM (#29829304)

If it's happening at the firmware level why wouldn't it just resolve the word internally and output only the completed word to the PC?

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Re:Keyboard lets people type so fast it’s banned from typing... by liamwestray on Thursday January 06, 2022 @03:26PM (#29829542)

Yes. It’s actually artificially increasing accuracy.

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