This has a few problems though, it can be hard for some people to spell phonetically in their language. Let alone a foreign one. It can also be very, very, slow.
For you or I, typing 50 words a minute is seen as an acceptable typing speed. Those 50 words could be made up of characters. Someone using this keyboard would be lucky to be able to type 50 characters a minute. Wubi is another commonly used method of typing on a keyboard. Just like the Pinyin keyboard, the Wubi uses the Qwerty layout with a few key changes. First, the keyboard is segmented into 5 sections. Each section has its form of shorthand to increase the speed of typing.
Just like secretaries and other note takers perfected the use of shorthand to record information quickly, the Wubi method allows you to convey information quickly. The computer then converts it for you. The Wubi method has some additional markings on each key to indicate extra keystrokes. Different combinations would produce different results. This is arguably much faster than the Pinyan method since you can type upwards of characters a minute. But, you are required to learn what is almost a whole other language beforehand.
Even after doing so, you would still be typing horrendously slow compared to your English counterpart. The final method is a little more niche, as it is almost used entirely by people of Taiwan and Taiwan alone. The Zhuyin keyboard uses ancient Chinese letters and symbols instead of our Qwerty keys. Those symbols can be combined to create a unique type of alphabet. It is based on phonetic Mandarin, meaning you are typing the sounds rather than the correct spelling.
This form of keyboard is by far the least efficient and hardest to use. But, you would pretty much only use this if you lived in Taiwan. Not all Taiwanese people use the Zhuyin keyboard, most would use either the Pinyin or the Wubi.
But there is a significant portion that does. So it does deserve a mention. Hopefully, China will eventually create some comparatively good keyboards for their population to use. But, it seems unlikely. China is always behind in innovation, especially in this area.
For a few reasons. All the initial work into keyboards was done for English speaking people. Furthermore, they have an incredibly difficult task of condensing their language down into a usable format. They would need minuscule keys on the keyboard to fit even a fraction of the quantity needed. Lastly, China struggles with innovation. Their laws around copyright are basically non-existent. So, the majority of Chinese products are just rip-offs of other countries.
Which is neither here nor there. Why this is so problematic for keyboards, is that no other country has anything to gain by creating a Chinese keyboard. Who would they sell it to? Not china, because they can just legally copy it. So there is nothing pushing anyone to innovate in this area. So, hopefully, this has answered any questions you may have had about how Chinese keyboards work. It cannot be overstated how difficult it is to innovate in this area.
As touch screen technology improves so will customizability, eventually, they may invent some kind of keyboard that holds up to the efficiency and speed of our own. Wireless computer mice can be extremely expensive nowadays if they are super good and loaded with excellent features. If we talk about gaming mice in the industry right now, either they are not very high-quality or they are super-duper expensive.
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