Are you ready?
Prepare yourself for a second. You’re already good at typing and you are about to feel like a clumsy idiot, at least for a the next 15 minutes.
This is a new skill, one that requires building up strength in small parts of your fingers, and forming altogether new connections with your brain.
It’s not easy. It’s not hard either.
But all the sudden you’re seven years old again, trying to learn how to tie your shoes, and the things other people can do with their fingers to make those knots and loops so quickly may as well be magic.
Magic at first at least.
CharaChorder is so new, with deliveries starting fall 2021, even the most veteran users have only had their device for months. It’s still a big unknown what the average learning curve might be.
For now, my (Lamb, not a CharaChorder employee) rule of thumb is ~100 hours of practice to reach ~half your QWERTY typing speed. If you’ve already learned alternate keyboard layouts, or use split keyboards, it may take even longer as you’re highly optimized.
But around 100 hours, you’ll be fast enough to use your CharaChorder for many tasks without it being painful, just like I am typing this right now, and after that, practice hours become more blurry.
If you chat on Discord, is that typing practice? What if you do actual writing? What about commenting on TikToks?
Anything that more closely reflects how you actually type is going to be great for building real speed (not just vanity monkeytype wpm).
So, your first major milestone is being comfortable enough using your CharaChorder for regular activities. You want practice to become a supportive exercise, and not the main effort.
We are all here because we want speed, and getting up to speed faster is no exception. In fact, training smartly won’t just shave hours on your training, it may help lay a foundation for habits that can improve your top speed overall. That’s the purpose of this section: to compile all the knowledge from the CharaChorder community, so that we all benefit from each other’s trial and error.
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