The Wubi Effect
Radiolab
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How to Enter a World Cup Finale in China
The audio is from the finals of a competition back in 2016, took place at China's e-sports hall in Beijing. What you see is a typist inputting a string of sort of nonsense letters, which prompts a little tiny box to pop up with five or so options, which they then select from with one final keystroke. How many like words characters prevent it, can they type? 244. That's insane. I didn't understand Simon. I did not understand Simon. Oh my god. Yeah. The room is totally silent, other than the clacking of keys,. Cameras cutting between contestants, capturing these over shoulder shots of their screens, just filling with text. And
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