This USB Dongle Could Help the Average Person Type 600% Faster - Gizmodo

It sounds like an ad you’d find in the back pages of Popular Science for a miracle gadget that couldn’t possibly deliver on its promises, but the CharaChorder X dongle can legitimately and dramatically improve a user’s typing speed—assuming they’re willing to put the work in to learn how to use it.

The secret to the CharaChorder X, and its creators’ previous products, like the CharaChorder Lite keyboard, is that it simply reduces the number of keys that need to be typed to spell out words.

Like a piano player hitting several keys at the same time to play a group of notes with a unique sound, or a guitar player strumming several strings, the CharaChorder technology allows an alphanumeric keyboard to be used in a similar fashion.

The original version of the CharaChorder looked more like a gaming peripheral covered in a collection of wiggly unlabelled joysticks, but the follow-up, the CharaChorder Lite, looked like a regular compact keyboard, making it easier for users to slowly transition from traditional typing techniques to the benefits of typing with chords.