![]() ![]() ![]() When mixing chords and normal typing, ZipChord is inserting (and removing) extra spaces as needed: When you enter a word using a chord, it will end with a ‘smart space,’ so you are ready to start typing or chording the next word. In addition, ZipChord has a few more tricks that make typing easier: Smart Spaces As discussed above, even a modest number of chords can replace a significant amount of typing. ZipChord allows you to define your own chords on the fly while you type, and to mix them in with regular typing. I knew chorded entry would bring greater comfort and speed even if used with only a few chords, so I created ZipChord and made it available for free. While there are software tools for chorded entry, I could not find any tool or script that decently handles a hybrid typing with chords of more than two keys. How many words do you think it takes in your writing? And what if you had a way to enter just those frequent words really efficiently?Ī keyboard input that could accept normal typing as well as simple chords for a few dozen words would make a hugely disproportionate impact on the amount of typing. When I did a quick check on The Lord of the Rings, that number was 66 words.Ĥ0% of the total word count in The Lord of the Rings consists of only 32 words. it turns out that half of all our written text is made out of just about 100 words. Unsurprisingly, it takes years to master this skill.īecause languages follow Zipf’s law - the second most frequent word appears half as often as the first, the third one appears one third as often as the first, etc. This is because stenotype machines use chords of simultaneous key presses to input whole words at a time. Trained stenographers type at over 200 words per minute. The most frequent word makes up 6% of all words in the text. The frequency of the top 100 most used words in ‘The Lord of the Rings,’ demonstrating Zipf’s law in action. ![]()
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