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People speak at ~100-180 WPM (words per minute), with American Sign Language ~200 WPM[1]. Professional typists type at 50 to 80 WPM [2] I'd wager that I can en
by colanderman 13y ago
People speak at ~100-180 WPM (words per minute), with American Sign Language ~200 WPM[1]. Professional typists type at 50 to 80 WPM [2]
I'd wager that I can enter computer code at a higher information rate via keyboard than speaking. "Open-brace" takes a lot longer to say than to type.
- y4mi 13y agoof course, but nothing is forcing you to say "open-brace" for this character. there was a video of someone here not that long ago that customized a speech recognition software to use some easily pronounced sounds for this. while it would still take longer to say, for example koi or roi for ( or ), it reduces it significantly, thus making it into a viable option for programming input
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