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		varispeed on July 11, 2024 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Zed on Linux Is Here There are keyboards with 1kHz polling.

wholinator2 on July 11, 2024 [–]

Yes but it takes longer than that for the signal to reach the usb port. And i doubt if many of us are typing at 1000 keystrokes/second. Apparently that's around 12,000 words/minute assuming average word length of 5 characters.

varispeed on July 13, 2024 | [–]

1ms latency is about what can be achieved with USB.

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