Charachorder Review: A great product
I'm a web-novel author who spends several hours typing everyday, and it's been over two months since I bought this Charachorder One with goal of increasing my speed and comfort while writing.
My expectations going into the device were high, having expected both the utility and difficulty of learning the dvice to be quite high, and both expectations came quite close to being met.
The two biggest selling points of the device are speed and ergonomics, I'll begin with the katter considering it is the focus of the subreddit and what I enjoyed most.
1) Ergonomics: I found this device to be extremely comfortable and relaxing compared to non-ergonomic keyboard and the few ergonomic mechanical keyboards I've tried.
Firstly, finger movement is minimized to the absolute bare minimum. You have all the alphabets, numbers, punctuation, and many special characters at your fingertips (literally), just millimeters away. The fatigue I used to feel is gone completely.
Secondly, the muscle diversity for the keystrokes is high. It distributes finger motion across all muscles in your hand instead of just flexion. Initially, I had a little bit of discomfort shifting my fingers sideway for a keystroke, but once I got used it, it was fine. I stopped feeling the stress on certain part of my fingers because I stopped using them as often.
Thirdly, chording makes typing easier and more comfortable. It reduces effort even further as you can output words with fewer keystrokes more often than not.
And, lastly, this is purely subjective, but CC1 feels amazing. Like, I often get a sense of euphoria when typing on it and it's just really, really fun. Addictive, even.
Where it may fall short compared to some premium products is the activation force which is much higher, but overall, it is still a great as far as ergonomics go. Another potential shortcoming is getting used to the tactile switches feel which some people don't like.
2) Speed: I'm currently still only at around 60-70 WMP, so I haven't yet reached a stage where I can experience the full benefits of the speed. But minimized speed distance and chording together increase your speed insanely. I have created custom chords for proper nouns in my story and the speed at which I write has increased remarkably. I think I will reach 100 WPM this month, hopefully.
But the chording is just broken, it gives you stenographic potential for speed without the insane barrier of entry.
Alright, now for the shortcomings:
1) Iffy reliability: There have been times where the switches bugged causing a key to be pressed even when I wasn't pressing it, leading to continuous key outputs. These are quite annoying but were solved with an electrice air duster.
2) Learning Curve: Now, it wasn't super difficult, but it certainly was not easy. You need to get used to an entire layout and entire structure of layout. Still, it took me 10 days to reach 40WPM, so make of that what you will.
Overall, I would give this product an 8.5/10. It has issues, but is still really good and delivers what it promises.
I'm a web-novel author who spends several hours typing everyday, and it's been over two months since I bought this Charachorder One with goal of increasing my speed and comfort while writing.
My expectations going into the device were high, having expected both the utility and difficulty of learning the dvice to be quite high, and both expectations came quite close to being met.
The two biggest selling points of the device are speed and ergonomics, I'll begin with the katter considering it is the focus of the subreddit and what I enjoyed most.
1) Ergonomics: I found this device to be extremely comfortable and relaxing compared to non-ergonomic keyboard and the few ergonomic mechanical keyboards I've tried.
Firstly, finger movement is minimized to the absolute bare minimum. You have all the alphabets, numbers, punctuation, and many special characters at your fingertips (literally), just millimeters away. The fatigue I used to feel is gone completely.
Secondly, the muscle diversity for the keystrokes is high. It distributes finger motion across all muscles in your hand instead of just flexion. Initially, I had a little bit of discomfort shifting my fingers sideway for a keystroke, but once I got used it, it was fine. I stopped feeling the stress on certain part of my fingers because I stopped using them as often.
Thirdly, chording makes typing easier and more comfortable. It reduces effort even further as you can output words with fewer keystrokes more often than not.
And, lastly, this is purely subjective, but CC1 feels amazing. Like, I often get a sense of euphoria when typing on it and it's just really, really fun. Addictive, even.
Where it may fall short compared to some premium products is the activation force which is much higher, but overall, it is still a great as far as ergonomics go. Another potential shortcoming is getting used to the tactile switches feel which some people don't like.
2) Speed: I'm currently still only at around 60-70 WMP, so I haven't yet reached a stage where I can experience the full benefits of the speed. But minimized speed distance and chording together increase your speed insanely. I have created custom chords for proper nouns in my story and the speed at which I write has increased remarkably. I think I will reach 100 WPM this month, hopefully.
But the chording is just broken, it gives you stenographic potential for speed without the insane barrier of entry.
Alright, now for the shortcomings:
1) Iffy reliability: There have been times where the switches bugged causing a key to be pressed even when I wasn't pressing it, leading to continuous key outputs. These are quite annoying but were solved with an electrice air duster.
2) Learning Curve: Now, it wasn't super difficult, but it certainly was not easy. You need to get used to an entire layout and entire structure of layout. Still, it took me 10 days to reach 40WPM, so make of that what you will.
Overall, I would give this product an 8.5/10. It has issues, but is still really good and delivers what it promises.