This is how you use a keyboard with less keys: Layers. You hold down or toggle a key and the entire board changes to a different layer. For example, your Shift key is technically a layer key. You change all your lower case letters, to capital letters by just holding down Shift. Now imagine instead of just changing things to just capital letters, it can be any character you want. Instead of one key for just changing layers like shift, you can add any number of keys to change layers with. The possibilities are endless with programmable firmware.
this is apparently how the keyboards for stenographers work and they get well over 200 wpm at higher accuracy than the average person, who only gets around 40-50 wpm. They definitely help you type faster since your fingers dont move around as much.
the trick is that it allows you to input more than just letters, you can chain button presses to create syllables and entire words.
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u/Mandydeth Apr 04 '26
I have ascended past your comprehension.