Plover: Thought to Text at 240 WPM

Why HN readers recommended it

HN's standard reference when typing speed, ergonomics, or alternative input comes up, for its live demo and the open-source steno ecosystem.

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Video & recommendation details

Creator / channel

Next Day Video

Topic

stenography text input

Format

talk

Level

general

HN recommenders in dataset

8

HN mentions in dataset

17

Recommendation years in dataset

2014–2023

These counts and years describe the included Hacker News records; they are not YouTube views or the video’s publication date.

From the original HN conversations

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• Mirabai Knight's talk about this is one of my all time faves: [VIDEO] Inspired me to try to create a live coding musical instrument based on it: [LINK] / [LINK]

• Yes! Here is a really great talk on the state of doing so, with a fantastic realtime demo near the end. Mirabai live-codes using her Plover setup and narrates her thought process as she types out each command. [VIDEO]

• There is an open source stenography project called "Plover". The idea of stenotype is instead of typing individual letters one combines keys to form sillables (or commands), what makes typing blazingly fast (240 WPM in the video below) and is overall a less cramped movement, …