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In lugnet.publish, Fredrik Glöckner writes:
> I don't think the original purpose of QWERTY was to _slow_ people
> down. Many mechanical typewriters can operate at hair raising speeds.
> What causes the typewriter "hammers" to jam is usually two subsequent
> letters from the same area of keyboard being pressed rapidly after
> each other. So the purpose of the QWERTY keyboard was, if I'm not
> mistaken, to make sure that two subsequent keys normally appear in
> different regions of the keyboard.
Just for fun, here are a couple one-liners which spit out a list of words
that can type typed on a single hand using a QWERTY keyboard...
Left hand:
cat /usr/dict/words | grep -i '^[qwertasdfgzxcvb]*$'
Right hand:
cat /usr/dict/words | grep -i '^[yuiophjklnm]*$'
There are some pretty good ones in there. n'joy...
--Todd
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