Post by @tychi@merveilles.town

2025-03-23 21:13 UTC

@kenshirriff i’ve looked at the keyset many times at the CHM i’ve been turning the five buttons on the guitar hero guitar into a real instrument, so i think a lot about how i imagined the keyset would work i honestly didn’t envision a 1:1 mapping with binary, that’s like qwerty being abcdef i thought it would have been arranged by frequency of letters to ease of use, for example, vowels being the single key mappings, like: 10000 - a 01000 - e 00100 - i 00010 - o 00001 - u anyways, thanks for sharing, i appreciate the deep dive

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@tychi@merveilles.town 2025-03-24 02:14

@kenshirriff I took some time to process the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Letter_frequency and map it from more ergonomic to less ergonomic. i'll be publishing an app i'm calling "typing simulator" in the near future that makes "1 week" seem like nothing, once turned into rhythm based video game 🙃 const characterMapping = { '00000': [' ', '.'], '10101': ['?', '!'], '11101': ['@', '#'], '10111': [':', ';'], '11111': [''], '10110': [',', '"'], '10000': ['a', 'A'], '01000': ['e', 'E'], '00100': ['i', 'I'], '00010': ['o', 'O'], '00001': ['u', 'U'], '11000': ['t', 'T'], '01100': ['n', 'N'], '00110': ['s', 'S'], '00011': ['h', 'H'], '10010': ['r', 'R'], '01010': ['d', 'D'], '00101': ['l', 'L'], '10100': ['c', 'C'], '01001': ['m', 'M'], '11100': ['w', 'W'], '01110': ['f', 'F'], '00111': ['g', 'G'], '10011': ['y', 'Y'], '11010': ['p', 'P'], '01101': ['b', 'B'], '01011': ['v', 'V'], '11001': ['k', 'K'], '11110': ['j', 'J'], '01111': ['x', 'X'], '10001': ['q', 'Q'], '11011': ['z', 'Z'] }

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@tommythorn@chaos.social 2025-03-25 03:06

@tychi @kenshirriff Having been interested in chording and owning several devices my decades, I only a few years ago came across a new idea: “trumpet chording” (not sure it has a name). With most chording you have to release all keys for every entry. With this you only have to release one. So many possibilities, but regardless, much practice is needed.

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