The system learned to translate brain activity to physical intent after just 30 sentences. Typing speeds reached 22 words per minute with few errors, nearly matching speeds of able-bodied smartphone users.
From the moment I understood the weakness of my flesh, it disgusted me.
apotheotic@beehaw.org 1 day ago
An awesome development no doubt, but, 22 wpm is ssslllloooow
TehPers@beehaw.org 1 day ago
As someone with fat fingers and autocorrect disabled, I wish I had 22 wpm with high accuracy.
And before you suggest autocorrect, I use a lot of acronyms and jargon that autocorrect often fails at. It gets annoying enough that I’d rather just type stuff out myself.
apotheotic@beehaw.org 1 day ago
Fair enough! I don’t use autocorrect either, but I guess I don’t have the same problem with my fingers that you’re experiencing.
I just can’t fathom it taking me nearly three seconds to type a word. I’d be surprised if the majority of words take me even one second to type.
yakko@feddit.uk 1 day ago
I love to type fast, but I recognise it’s not as valuable as typing something worth reading. I used to write long emails and it was never really worth a damn in the end. As for writing books, those aren’t the kind of thing you should just firehose onto the page either.
apotheotic@beehaw.org 1 day ago
Sure but we’re not talking about what’s being typed, rather how fast you can type it.