Hacker News new | ask | show | jobs
by jimlikeslimes 217 days ago
Check out chorded keyboards. They've been a thing for a very long time. At least since early 00s or 90s when I saw them first. They are held one handed have 5 keys and you get different letters by chording multiple keys together.
2 comments

first consumer device I ever saw was the Microwriter, back in the 1980's .. but court stenographers have been using chorded keyboards for a century or more

- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microwriter

- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stenotype

Court stenography keyboards were not originally spelling out letters, though; they worked in shorthand symbols. I guess they can autoexpand that now.

Microwriter devices produced ASCII directly.

CharaChorder beats all. I can type faster than I can talk