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CharaChorder is an American privately held company that specializes in text input devices. Its major products include the CharaChorder One, CharaChorder Two, and the CharaChorder Lite, which are keyboards that allow for character and chorded entry. 
History
The company's first product was the CharaChorder One, intended to assist people with disabilities and those with limited mobility the ability to communicate with ease. The founders cite their creation as an example of thecurb cut effect
The curb cut effect is the phenomenon of disability-friendly features being used and appreciated by a larger group than the people they were designed for. The phenomenon is named for curb cuts miniature ramps comprising parts of sidewalk which wer ...
: technology designed to enable people with disabilities that leads to benefits for everyone. After its initial release, the company was recognized as a new and noteworthy company at the consumer electronics show.
In January 2022, the company made the news when its CEO posted videos to social media demonstrating himself typing in excess of 500 wpm. The speeds are not recorded by some typing competition websites because they are not achieved with a traditional keyboard. In particular, the website Monkeytype blocks any speeds over 300 wpm from their leader boards.
Since its initial creation the company has focused on creation of technologies that enable users to perform text entry faster. The company's motto is "typing at the speed of thought." In May 2022, the company began publicly selling the CharaChorder Lite. The CharaChorder Lite is a chorded keyboard
A keyset or chorded keyboard (also called a chorded keyset, ''chord keyboard'' or ''chording keyboard'') is a input device, computer input device that allows the user to enter characters or commands formed by pressing several keys together, like ...
that allows for much of the same functionality of a CharaChorder One, with a more familiar QWERTY
QWERTY ( ) is a keyboard layout for Latin-script alphabets. The name comes from the order of the first six Computer keyboard keys#Types, keys on the top letter row of the keyboard: . The QWERTY design is based on a layout included in the Sh ...
layout. In November 2022, the company began a Kickstarter campaign to fund the development of the CharaChorder X, a USB device that aims to bring chorded functionality to existing keyboards.
It has now produced the engine used for chording, and is working on the "Forge" keyboard.
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