A different kind of keyboard

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While chording keyboards require you to press multiple keys at the same time, arpeggio keyboards only ask that you type multiple keys in sequence. Peggi has six "Regular" keys, one space key, and one modifier key. Each finger is locked to a particular key: fingers never move across the keyboard. If you didn't grow up playing the piano, it's probably easier to press one key after another than to press multiple keys at the same time - you've been doing it all your life, on a regular keyboard. Typing two letters requires four keypresses, instead of two chordpresses, but you can usually begin pressing the next key before you finish pressing the previous key. A chording keyboard requires you to release all keys before you can begin typing the next chord, so entering two letters on a chording keyboard is sort of four "Input events" as well: keydown, keyup, keydown, keyup. Another downside is that certain typos - either missing a key, or typing an extra key - can result in an entire word being mistyped: as soon as you're "Off by one," every subsequent arpeggio you type will actually enter the wrong character.
A different kind of keyboard



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