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Recently a new keyboard for text processing, the Velotype, was introduced. The makers of the Velotype promised that it would be possible to type three times as fast on this keyboard as on the normal QWERTY keyboard, or that it could be learned in a shorter time.
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van Noorden, L.P.A.S. (1988). A Provisional Evaluation of a New Chord Keyboard, the Velotype. In: van der Veer, G.C., Mulder, G. (eds) Human-Computer Interaction. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-73402-1_20
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