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Re: chord keyboard faster than traditional keyboard?

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From: kyongsok kim
Date: Fri, 22 Sep 1989 21:13
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In article <1729@draken.nada.kth.se> ianf@nada.kth.se (Ian Feldman) writes:
:>back to my original question: as far as ordinary text processing is
:                               ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^       
:>concerned, it seems that I still cannot find any experimental data showing
:>that a chord kbd is much faster than the a traditional (sequential) kbd.
:
:   But that's obvious, isn't it?  Chord keyboards are not used much
:   (if at all) for *ordinary* word processing for much the same reasons
:   why the _supposedly_superior_ Dvorak keyboard layout hasn't superseded
:   the QWERTY one - the latter does the job just fine.

My point is: it is generally (?) agreed that dvorak is 20-70 % faster than
qwerty althoug most people use qwerty.  in contrast, as far as ordinary text
processing is concerned, it seems that I cannot find any EXPERIMENTAL
data showing that a chord kbd is much faster than a traditional
(sequential) kbd.

k kim
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From: nukim@ndsuvax.UUCP (kyongsok kim)
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Subject: Re: chord keyboard faster than traditional keyboard?
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Date: 22 Sep 89 21:13:04 GMT
Organization: North Dakota State University  Fargo, ND
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