Hard to say because I'm still stumbling trying to remember a chord most of the time. I'd say 20 wpm when the stumbling is only moderate. I need to get that muscle memory trained!
Did you follow some convention for your chording or make something up yourself?
I kind of wonder if some layout that mimics wasd but uses the thumb buttons to indicate which “row” you are in could be intuitive to people who learned to type conventionally. (The intuition here being that most of us aren’t going to become keyer experts).
No, I didn't experiment with modes almost at all. I had one mode where I mapped the arrows to individual keys but in the end dint't use it - it's faster to enter a chord - especially chords for Ctrl+Arrows are nice.
For a time I made the mappings a little more memorable by forcing two related keys (like a and ą or o and ó) to have their chords differ in just one finger position - and that did work but it lowered the "efficiency estamates" of the generated layouts. In the end I reserved one thumb position for my custom shortcuts and allowed the optimizer to go crazy with all the remaining chords. After playing with both styles I prefer the latter. Entering text feels more a little fast-paced maze solving game where you have to figure out which fingers to move to transition between chords.
Hard to say because I'm still stumbling trying to remember a chord most of the time. I'd say 20 wpm when the stumbling is only moderate. I need to get that muscle memory trained!
Did you follow some convention for your chording or make something up yourself?
I kind of wonder if some layout that mimics wasd but uses the thumb buttons to indicate which “row” you are in could be intuitive to people who learned to type conventionally. (The intuition here being that most of us aren’t going to become keyer experts).
No, I didn't experiment with modes almost at all. I had one mode where I mapped the arrows to individual keys but in the end dint't use it - it's faster to enter a chord - especially chords for Ctrl+Arrows are nice.
For a time I made the mappings a little more memorable by forcing two related keys (like a and ą or o and ó) to have their chords differ in just one finger position - and that did work but it lowered the "efficiency estamates" of the generated layouts. In the end I reserved one thumb position for my custom shortcuts and allowed the optimizer to go crazy with all the remaining chords. After playing with both styles I prefer the latter. Entering text feels more a little fast-paced maze solving game where you have to figure out which fingers to move to transition between chords.
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