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Very clever! As a 10fastfingers fan it's interesting how this forces you to slowly dole out your thoughts instead of just dumping them at maximum speed.
by quartz 4y ago
Very clever! As a 10fastfingers fan it's interesting how this forces you to slowly dole out your thoughts instead of just dumping them at maximum speed.
- OisinMoran 4y agoYeah it's interesting that even if you could increase the speed (possible feature idea) there's still some push towards behaving like a metronome! It really makes it quite evident how variable the timings for certain letters and words are (like "the" is almost a single character).
- Animats 4y ago> push towards behaving like a metronome! Typing on a older Teletype machine is like that. The keyboard is mechanical - really mechanical, not just clicky. When you press a key, it locks down, and all other keys are locked until the previous keypress has been processed, which takes about 200ms. So you learn to type at a constant speed.
- rob74 4y agoTyping on an old (purely) mechanical typewriter was similar - you couldn't type too fast, or the type levers would jam. But that was already mostly taken care of by the longer travel of the keys...
- Bluecobra 4y agoI thought QWERTY was invented to avoid jams? I'm pretty sure you can still type fast on a manual typewriter. https://oztypewriter.blogspot.com/2014/03/evolution-of-world-speed-typing-records.html https://oztypewriter.blogspot.com/2014/03/evolution-of-world...
- pessimizer 4y agoTo avoid jams by slowing the typist down, among other ways. The way you would speed up, I imagine, would be by knowing where all the keys were in relation to each other, and knowing whether you had more or less time between presses for the path to be cleared for the next. edit: I was great at jamming manual typewriters when I was a kid, because when I was unsure of the next character, I wouldn't release the previous key fast enough; I would rest on it for a fraction of a second. Bad habits.
- JKCalhoun 4y agoAnd how the spacebar becomes obsolete.
- rpastuszak 4y agoYeah, looks like the opposite of the writing app I wrote a few years back (https://enso.sonnet.io https://enso.sonnet.io) where the point is to just keep writing with as much fluency as possible.