h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

Oh, got it. Yeah, we usually call it a stroller here.

Oh, I just thought of one word that's odd to type.

Answer.

That string of "swer" is a bit like drumming your fingers on the desk.

I like to call ours a perambulator just to confuse people...

When I'm older if I'm ever forced into a mobility scooter I'll call it a motorised bath chair.

<BB<

We call it a stroller, I believe.

For all the touch typists out there-

Left

draw, ward, wear, zest, teas, craw, wear, East, vase, wave


Right

limp

pomp
lump
puny
kill
hill
junk
punk
puny
pump
hump
bump
bomb
....

>> bomb <<

Plutonium.


~jwf~

Nice (except for that incongruous 't').

clzoomer - I tried those words, they are nice to type because they are all with different fingers. Where I have problems - actually I don't often have problems typing anything - it's if there is too much that should be done with one finger on different keys.

In that case, aqua and aluminiumminumum...

If you type the way I do the keyboard doesn't have a left and right. Either the whole thing is middle, or at a push I suppose the q and a could be on the left and everything else on the right.

And word ending 'erty' for instance 'property' starts off being typed slowly but gets faster in the second half.

PP.

"I've never heard anyone make a similar claim for the right side of the keyboard. Any ideas?"

The 'Would you resign...' thread had me thinking about the word 'pleb'.

Surprisingly, the letters comprising bumpkin, hillbilly and hoi polli are all right-hand siders.

Erm... hoi polloi, that is/was.

As are highjump & hymnbook...

Got a bit carried away with highjump, but.

Am I wrong to suspect that folks that suggest that G, B & T qualify as residing on the right side of the keyboard are "two finger typists"? Now while I might give you B as it does lie on the border, G & T do not.


However, before the backlash, let me tell you about my cousin. She took typing in high school and her grades drastically improved by the simple strategy of moving to the back of the room. At the front of the classroom, her teacher could see her using just her two index fingers. At the back of the room she was free to "hunt & peck" at a rate of, no seriously, 65 wpm. She didn't learn her skill in class but rather chatting on a BBS.

s-m-i-l-e-s

there is a mile between the two s's.

Rudest Elf - if, like me, you learned to type in the British Army, Highjump is a righty.

In our system the divide is 5, t, f, v, are the furthest edge of the left hand and 6, z (or y), g and b are the furthest right. I think that's different from the traditional way?

"Am I wrong to suspect that folks that suggest that G, B & T qualify as residing on the right side of the keyboard are "two finger typists"? Now while I might give you B as it does lie on the border, G & T do not."

I'm a touchtyper (this is being done by two fingers, because I don't need to type quickly and I'm tired
) but due to my large fingers my left index fingers are actually sitting on the space between f/g and h/j - which means that if one finger is typing another letter on its side the index finger from the other hand to type it
...sometimes it even has the rest of the hand attached

Third attempt


Hi Sho

I'm a self-taught, two-finger typist (as some may have realised by now ), so I don't know why (the) F should be the left hand's limit - of the 15 keys on the A line, F is the fifth . (My Spanish keyboard has an Ñ to the right of the L, on the A line, pushing the G even further to the left.)

I should read this, I guess: http://edgarmatias.com/papers/ic93/index.html