Contributed by Lamb
When you’re at about 20 wpm, you might pick about 5 easy chords to learn from the starter words. These should be easy 2–4 key chords to familiarize yourself with the dance between chords and single character entry.
Here were my first chords.
4/5 of these chords either have TH or WH, two movements that are found in many important chords.
I hand-wrote these chords on a notepad on my desk as a reference.
You can practice them a few times in a text editor, but really, as you’re training on Lexical in LaunchPad (or wherever else), these common words will eventually show up. See if you can work them in. Don’t worry if at first it lowers your speed. You’re practicing.
Once you are comfortable, you can slowly add a few more chords to your list every few hours of practice.
Some chords are like rubbing your tummy in a circle while patting your head in a straight light simultaneously. The motions of some fingers seem to steer others the wrong direction.
With Spurring on (chord both pinkies down at the same time to toggle Spurring), I noticed I could much more easily do these chords in two swift motions than all at once. It provided stability to my hand and allowed me to group similar motions together.
But, I found that if you max out your Press Tolerance you can simulate this while still in character entry mode.
Tolerances are set in the Generative Text Menu (GTM). Chord both pinkies up at the same time to access it anywhere that text can appear. Follow the instructions (Press S, P, then up 100+ times, etc). Just delete the text when you’re done.
Set the Press Tolerance to the max 150 allows for separating the chord into multiple motions as long as they are done quickly back-to-back and released together.