Stenography! When stroking a chord you can have 6+ keys held down easily. I design and write firmware for QMK powered writers/ergonomic keyboards, and NKRO is

Stenography! When stroking a chord you can have 6+ keys held down easily. I design and write firmware for QMK powered writers/ergonomic keyboards, and NKRO is absolutely vital if you don't want to resort to serial devices [1]. Plover uses this technique to allow for use of gaming keyboards as a low cost stenographic writer powered by FOSS. [1] https://www.gboards.ca/ https://www.gboards.ca/