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So I've been learning Plover (typing system like what court typists use) recently and while I've gotten to the point where I can actually type some things (but I still have to look up every other word), however I am horrendously slow. I keep going on the IRC wanting to chat but I type so slowly that by the time I'm finally finish whatever I'm typing the conversation has moved on to another topic, and I'm replying to a message you'd have to scroll up to see.

 

I need to write things to practice, but slowly.

 

I also managed to |accidentally post this because I thought my keyboard was in plover mode when in fact it was in normal-keyboard mode and some of the keys used in plover mode are tab and enter. Most of this post was written using plover but then I gave because OMFG it can be so frustrating sometimes it's like my thought process is being stopped by a fucking keyboard.

 

Give me things to write. Ask about Plover. Expect slowly written responses.

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The entire script of the bee movie.

Do it.

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I'm too lazy to look up Plover. Is it anything like Dvorak? I tried to learn to type with Dvorak and it was a lot of fun, but I decided my eight years' experience typing qwerty would never be beat.

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I'm too lazy to look up Plover. Is it anything like Dvorak? I tried to learn to type with Dvorak and it was a lot of fun, but I decided my eight years' experience typing qwerty would never be beat.

 

No, Plover uses fewer keys so fingers don't have to move as much. A Plover keyboard looks like this:

 

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Those can then be mapped on to a standard keyboard.

 

So you don't have to Google it: http://www.openstenoproject.org/

 

 

The entire script of the bee movie.

Do it.

 

Welllllllllllllll... Maybe.

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I forgot the most important part: You press multiple keys at once to make a "chord". Small and/or common words only need 1 chord, other words usually need about 1 chord per syllable.

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Stenotype. Plover is open source stenotype.

 

Which is a chorded typing scheme. So you need multiple simultaneous keystrokes but fewer keys.

 

This.

 

 

None of them.

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Oh, come on...

 

Okay then, quote a line of Shakespeare.

 

Also, you were right about there being a gyroscope in that copter. A tiny six axis. (Which I think means three gyros and three accelerometers.) The thing is still impossible to fly stably.

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I'm unreasonably opposed to that setup for Plover. At first I thought it had like a shift key for changing letters, which was pretty cool. But multiple at once? That sounds so needlessly complicated.

 

I could probably type faster with the same setup and two function keys for caps/different letters. My pinkies are exclusively for shift/ctrl/enter-type keys already anyways, and I have hundreds of hours rocket jumping (jump-crouching) in TF2 so I'm no stranger to holding them either.

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