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I have begun the path to learning stenography. Steno involves chording, or pressing multiple keys at once. Multiple keys at once means greatly improving the inf

by iod 7y ago

I have begun the path to learning stenography. Steno involves chording, or pressing multiple keys at once. Multiple keys at once means greatly improving the information density of when you type allowing professionals to type 240 words per minute (realtime), which is just not possible on single-key-at-a-time keyboards. Unfortunately most commonly available, non-gaming keyboards do not natively support multiple keys at once which is also known as n-key rollover (nkro). I ended up buying a pre-assembled, fully opensource hacker keyboard Ergodox EZ⁰, and have a custom layout firmware that matches up with the open steno project¹ . From here I am using Querty Steno² to practice my chording. Here is an example video someone did of using steno for programming a simple FizzBuzz on a different keyboard on YouTube³. In my opinion, if anyone is looking to really take their typing to the next level, chording is the only way and Dvorak/Colmak/single-key-at-a-time-layouts will never really get you there. ⁰ https://ergodox-ez.com https://ergodox-ez.com ¹ http://www.openstenoproject.org http://www.openstenoproject.org ² http://qwertysteno.com http://qwertysteno.com ³ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RBBiri3CD6w https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RBBiri3CD6w

melling 7y ago
Do you take advantage of any predictive typing? Coding, in particular, reuses a lot of keywords and variables names.
- iod 7y ago
  Steno itself in the general sense is not predictive but rather phonetic. You can create your own custom macros/variable-names/code-blocks to your dictionary for things that are common in your workflow as you go. If you already use some sort of predictive typing system such as sentence/phrase autocomplete you could probably just assign a macro for accepting the autocomplete suggestion.

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I have begun the path to learning stenography. Steno involves chording, or pressing multiple keys at once. Multiple keys at once means greatly improving the inf

by iod 7y ago

melling 7y ago
Do you take advantage of any predictive typing? Coding, in particular, reuses a lot of keywords and variables names.
- iod 7y ago
  Steno itself in the general sense is not predictive but rather phonetic. You can create your own custom macros/variable-names/code-blocks to your dictionary for things that are common in your workflow as you go. If you already use some sort of predictive typing system such as sentence/phrase autocomplete you could probably just assign a macro for accepting the autocomplete suggestion.