Wtf?! Your full -size mechanical keyboard with RGB light and dedicated macro may be extra, but we bet that it does not get closer to “ten hundred computer letters gateters”. This demonic of a keyboard types the whole words instead of individual letters, a shocking 1,020 key – and yes, it is as impractical as it seems.
Inspired by Randel Munro’s XKCD Comic “Up Goer Five”, where rocket science has been explained using only 1,000 most common English words, YouTuber Attoparasec decided to take the concept a step forward. When you can build a keyboard, why stop the rockets, forcing you to communicate with a thesaurus like a cave? The result is spreading a five-mango keyboard on its huge desk.
Each of 1,000 keys represents one of the most common English words, which is arranged in the alphabet in five panels. Naturally, which excludes words like “chrysanthemum”, but some favorite – which contains curse words – cut the cut. To keep things slightly less chaotic, Attoparasec also added 20 modifier keys to connect words such as “-Ing” or “-D”.
The keyboard design is an achievement of engineering. For one, Attoparasec opted for a large scale, an inch-wide key, although it still did not prevent some long words from being hyphene. He also used dye-cultivation to print words on blank cakeps, a process that seems simple, but actually requires months of testing and error. In fact, it took six months for the entire project to be completed.
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Then there is a physical challenge to use this demonic. Attoparasec has described typing on this as a “full-edge experience”, which is a humble way to say that you will need an albatros wings so that you will comfortably reach from one corner to another.
Now, you can assume that instead of individual letters, a keyboard process designed to type the whole words will speed up. No. The reality is quite opposite. In a typing speed test, Attoparasec slowed down 13 words per minute-less than one-six of its normal 83 on a standard keyboard.
All things were considered, it is safe to say that keyboard layouts are not developing beyond the effort-and-sided Qwerty soon. Nevertheless, despite the disinterest of ten hundred computer letters, something strangely attractive about it. Just look at those endless lines of the keys, waiting for the press.
Now, we must have crowned this hatred as the “world’s worst keyboard”, but a strong contender is already present. And, of course, it is from the same YouTuber. Attoparasec built the first two-thirds of the keyboard, a bizarre use where normal letters were given overrous keys, while rare people shrugged into close-sizes.
