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This weird keyboard is so fast it’s banned in speed contests
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This weird keyboard is so fast it’s banned in speed contests

This very original keyboard called CharaChorder has no equivalent on the market. And yet, its designers promise that with it you'll be able to type at speeds as fast as your mind. So fast that the Monkeytype website bans it from its typing speed contests. The CharaChorder keyboard (formed from the English words character and chording) achieves typing speeds with two simple features. The first, hardware, is that the keys of the classic QWERTY keyboard are replaced by 18 small joysticks – similar to gamepads – for each of the fingers that move them up, down, left and right. Each position represents a letter or command. Great advantage of this arrangement, your fingers which do not leave the 18 keys give access to more than 300 entries. More so, the CharaChord...