GKOS Chordon Shortcuts
The words listed below can optionally be typed very fast. The way the
keys are
pressed down or released for a single character can define a whole word
followed by a
space. You may want to learn to type some of your most frequent words
this way - some day perhaps most of them.
It is quite amazing that with only 6 keys (or 3 keys with 2 switches
each) you have access to hundreds of (
up
to 781) complete words
directly at the same time as you can use the
standard way of GKOS typing letter by letter (using single characters
and/or chordons).
How to read the
tables:
Shortcut
tables (draft)
The shortcuts
have been composed according to the principle that the keys pressed are
as far as possible the same as (but often fewer than) those when typing
the beginning of the
word letter by letter. This seems to be a good practice and feels quite
natural after having obtained a fluent basic GKOS typing skill. It is
even possible to correctly guess the shorcut in many cases.
In word frequency order
In alphabetical order
In shortcut character order
*** version of 21
November
2006 ***
Definition
of a chordon shortcut word:
A Chordon Shortcut is a two-character chordon
which is preceded by, and
ends in, an all-keys-released condition, and consists of characters of
which at least one is a special character belonging to this group of
characters (tables use the symbols in bold):
,
. - ' ? ! UpArrow DnArrow Shift Backspace
Space
Seppo Tiainen, 7
February 2005
- The table has been adjusted
since creation of this page
- Definition moved to bottom 18 Feb 2005
- Information on plans to expand the table to 612 words after practical
tests, 28 Nov 2005 - Planning 700 words, 19 Jan 2006
- Links to separate tables added, old table removed from this page,
26-28
Feb 2006. Number of shortcuts is 781, 2 March 2006