WTF?! Your full-sized mechanical keyboard with RGB lighting and devoted macros could also be further, however we wager it does not come near the “ten hundred pc letter getter.” This monstrosity of a keyboard varieties complete phrases as a substitute of particular person letters, boasting a staggering 1,020 keys – and sure, it is simply as impractical because it sounds.
Impressed by Randall Munroe’s xkcd comedian “Up Goer 5,” the place rocket science is defined utilizing solely the 1,000 most typical English phrases, YouTuber Attoparsec determined to take the idea one step additional. Why cease at explaining rockets when you may construct a keyboard that forces you to speak like a caveman with a thesaurus? The result’s a five-panel keyboard sprawling throughout his large desk.
Every of the 1,000 keys represents one of the crucial widespread English phrases, organized alphabetically throughout the 5 panels. Naturally, that excludes phrases like “chrysanthemum,” however some favorites – together with curse phrases – made the reduce. To maintain issues barely much less chaotic, Attoparsec additionally added 20 modifier keys for pluralizing phrases or including suffixes like “-ing” or “-ed.”
The keyboard’s design is a feat of engineering. For one, Attoparsec opted for enormous, one-inch-wide keys, although that did not stop some longer phrases from nonetheless being hyphenated. He additionally used dye-sublimation to print the phrases onto clean keycaps, a course of that sounds easy however really required months of trial and error. Actually, your complete challenge took six full months to finish.
Then there’s the sheer bodily problem of utilizing this monstrosity. Attoparsec describes typing on it as a “full-body expertise,” which is a well mannered means of claiming you’d want the wingspan of an albatross to comfortably attain from one nook to the opposite.
Now, you may assume {that a} keyboard designed to sort complete phrases as a substitute of particular person letters would velocity up the method. Nope. The fact is sort of the alternative. In a typing velocity check, Attoparsec managed a painfully sluggish 13 phrases per minute – lower than one-sixth of his regular 83 on a typical keyboard.
All issues thought-about, it is secure to say that keyboard layouts aren’t evolving past the tried-and-true QWERTY anytime quickly. But, regardless of the absurdity of the Ten Hundred Laptop Letter Getter, there’s one thing oddly charming about it. Simply take a look at these infinite rows of keys, ready to be pressed.
Now, we would have gladly topped this abomination because the “world’s worst keyboard” however a robust contender already exists. And, after all, it is from the identical YouTuber. Attoparsec beforehand constructed the Two-Thirds Keyboard, a weird experiment the place widespread letters got outsized keys, whereas rarer ones had been shrunk all the way down to near-useless sizes.
WTF?! Your full-sized mechanical keyboard with RGB lighting and devoted macros could also be further, however we wager it does not come near the “ten hundred pc letter getter.” This monstrosity of a keyboard varieties complete phrases as a substitute of particular person letters, boasting a staggering 1,020 keys – and sure, it is simply as impractical because it sounds.
Impressed by Randall Munroe’s xkcd comedian “Up Goer 5,” the place rocket science is defined utilizing solely the 1,000 most typical English phrases, YouTuber Attoparsec determined to take the idea one step additional. Why cease at explaining rockets when you may construct a keyboard that forces you to speak like a caveman with a thesaurus? The result’s a five-panel keyboard sprawling throughout his large desk.
Every of the 1,000 keys represents one of the crucial widespread English phrases, organized alphabetically throughout the 5 panels. Naturally, that excludes phrases like “chrysanthemum,” however some favorites – together with curse phrases – made the reduce. To maintain issues barely much less chaotic, Attoparsec additionally added 20 modifier keys for pluralizing phrases or including suffixes like “-ing” or “-ed.”
The keyboard’s design is a feat of engineering. For one, Attoparsec opted for enormous, one-inch-wide keys, although that did not stop some longer phrases from nonetheless being hyphenated. He additionally used dye-sublimation to print the phrases onto clean keycaps, a course of that sounds easy however really required months of trial and error. Actually, your complete challenge took six full months to finish.
Then there’s the sheer bodily problem of utilizing this monstrosity. Attoparsec describes typing on it as a “full-body expertise,” which is a well mannered means of claiming you’d want the wingspan of an albatross to comfortably attain from one nook to the opposite.
Now, you may assume {that a} keyboard designed to sort complete phrases as a substitute of particular person letters would velocity up the method. Nope. The fact is sort of the alternative. In a typing velocity check, Attoparsec managed a painfully sluggish 13 phrases per minute – lower than one-sixth of his regular 83 on a typical keyboard.
All issues thought-about, it is secure to say that keyboard layouts aren’t evolving past the tried-and-true QWERTY anytime quickly. But, regardless of the absurdity of the Ten Hundred Laptop Letter Getter, there’s one thing oddly charming about it. Simply take a look at these infinite rows of keys, ready to be pressed.
Now, we would have gladly topped this abomination because the “world’s worst keyboard” however a robust contender already exists. And, after all, it is from the identical YouTuber. Attoparsec beforehand constructed the Two-Thirds Keyboard, a weird experiment the place widespread letters got outsized keys, whereas rarer ones had been shrunk all the way down to near-useless sizes.
