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Plover: Thought to Text at 240 WPM
Next Day Video · Mar 21, 2013 · 34m 21s
What this video covers
Mirabai Knight's PyCon 2013 talk on Plover, a free cross-platform stenography engine that lets people write at up to 240 WPM on ordinary hardware, including a demo of coding by steno.
Why it surfaced in Hacker News
HN's standard reference when typing speed, ergonomics, or alternative input comes up, for its live demo and the open-source steno ecosystem.
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Recommendation context
Short excerpts from positive mentions. Open the source to read the full Hacker News discussion.
“Mirabai Knight's talk about this is one of my all time faves”
“Here is a really great talk on the state of doing so, with a fantastic realtime demo near the end.”
“There is an open source stenography project called "Plover". The idea of stenotype is instead of typing individual letters one combines keys to form sillables (or commands), what makes typing blazingly fast (240 WPM in the video below) and is overall a less cramped movement, because after each sillable you can relax instead of keeping muscles tensed for each”