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Title should be updated to 90 characters per minute. 90 wpm would be legitimately fast.
by hcurtiss 5y ago
Title should be updated to 90 characters per minute. 90 wpm would be legitimately fast.
- whimsicalism 5y ago90 wpm and I would be wanting to get one myself!
- buildbot 5y agoYeah a 90wpm interface to a computer mentally would be incredible. Combine that with something like GPT3, use it to do natural language command line processing… If anyone is working on this I’d pay like 5k for a non invasive solution! ;)
- swader999 5y agoIf it helped me think at 90 wpm that'd be even better.
- etrautmann 5y ago90 characters per minute is still "legitimately fast" for someone who cannot type otherwise!
- yjftsjthsd-h 5y agoRight, but 90 wpm would be faster than most people could ever do on a conventional keyboard; it's a whole other level.
- qwertox 5y agoIt would be interesting to see how people compare in speed, assuming that the technology itself is not a bottleneck. We could directly measure how fast a child thinks, or a CEO vs. a homeless. Eventually we would be able to pinpoint mental problems by measuring the time it takes to think about a certain topic, check if the mind "locks up" for a couple of seconds on a seemingly unrelated topic which got triggered by the context the mind was thinking about. We could pinpoint the unrelated topic and have a base for a psychotherapy which could be more accurate than by just talking around in order to get to know the patient. Let's say a group of 10 have to think out the ordering process at a Starbucks where every step has been provided by a list. An average of 20 seconds is used to do this +- 5 seconds. If there is an outlier, one could start to dig deeper into what exactly is making the mind to wander off. Multiple tests in different scenarios could then decide if the outlier is a slow thinker in general, or if it is a certain thing which triggers this wandering off.
- lazysheepherd 5y agoJust a trivia perhaps, but WPM is _exactly_ 5 times faster than CPM. "the definition of each "word" is often standardized to be five characters or keystrokes long in English" [1] 1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Words_per_minute https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Words_per_minute
- rrrrrrrrrrrryan 5y agoSo this implant is 18 wpm, then - a bit slower than hunt-and-peck typing (which is ~27 wpm), but still very workable.
- twobitshifter 5y agoWhat is typical writing speed in terms of characters per minute? Maybe the next version could use a former touch typist and ask them to visualize typing on a keyboard.
- grogenaut 5y agoaverage english word is < 8 chars, so call it 8, and that gives you 10 WPM. Sent from a plane, I'm not doing more research than this.
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- dang 5y agoThe title shouldn't have added that bit in the first place ("Please use the original title, unless it is misleading or linkbait; don't editorialize." [1]) so we've taken it out. The headline is just fine without it. (Submitted title was "Neural implant lets paralyzed person type by imagining writing [90wpm]") [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html