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[Archetype]

I don't have any ideas for the mechanics of this game, but I've managed to think up the concept of a board game. It's called Malpractice Mania, and the idea is that you play incompetent surgeons trying to get away with 'accidentally' killing patients for as long as possible.

I'm sure this is a terrible idea, but oh well.

I'd play!

[eHalcyon]

In today's xkcd What If, various sentences with odd QWERTY properties are presented.  For "Right hand only" we have "buy my puppy milk, lol".  And thus I have just realized that some people type the B key with their right hand.  I use my left hand though.

What hand do you use to type B?

[Archetype]

What hand do you use to type B?

Left hand with my pointer finger. Granted, I tried pressing it with different fingers to figure out which one felt right.

[theory]

Left hand with pointer finger is the "correct" way to do it!   I concede that this is wholly, 100% arbitrary.

[AHoppy]

which ever finger is closer to the key when my eyes finally spot it!

[Eevee]

Is using left hands thumb bad?

[eHalcyon]

Is using left hands thumb bad?

Probably not bad if you're used to it.  Weird though, I think.  My thumbs only ever hit the space bar.  I use left pointer for B, like theory.

Which hand do you use for the space bar?  I think I alternate, but I'm actually not sure.  Every time I try to pay attention while typing, it feels weird on either hand.

[Eevee]

Is using left hands thumb bad?

Probably not bad if you're used to it.  Weird though, I think.  My thumbs only ever hit the space bar.  I use left pointer for B, like theory.

Which hand do you use for the space bar?  I think I alternate, but I'm actually not sure.  Every time I try to pay attention while typing, it feels weird on either hand.

Left thumb there as well it seems.

[Awaclus]

I use my left hand for B, right hand for H, both for Y (most likely left hand if it's a capital Y, right hand if it's a small y since I never use the left shift). Sometimes I might use right hand for B if I'm typing something like "base", or left hand for H if I'm typing something like "HP".

Also, I thought I was using both thumbs for space bar, but apparently it's just my right thumb. The left thumb is just laying on top of the space bar doing nothing.

[sudgy]

The split for my hand is 5-t-g-b for my left hand and 6-y-h-n for my right.

[eHalcyon]

I use my left hand for B, right hand for H, both for Y (most likely left hand if it's a capital Y, right hand if it's a small y since I never use the left shift). Sometimes I might use right hand for B if I'm typing something like "base", or left hand for H if I'm typing something like "HP".

Also, I thought I was using both thumbs for space bar, but apparently it's just my right thumb. The left thumb is just laying on top of the space bar doing nothing.

The split for my hand is 5-t-g-b for my left hand and 6-y-h-n for my right.

I think my split is 6-t-g-b for left hand and 7-y-h-n for right.  I am a bit unsure about that 6 but it does feel weirder using the right hand for it.

I still use left hand for b even for a word like "base", and right hand for h even for "HP".  My hands are perfectly comfortable with index on b/h and pinky on a/p.  I have no problem using either hand for shift. 

I think I use either hand for space bar, depending on what letter I'm typing immediately before or after the space... but I can't tell which way I do it.  If I try to slow down to figure it out, it just feels weird. 

Has anybody type Dvorak?  Anybody tried?  I have some friends who use it, just to be different.

[Kirian]

Apparently I use right pointer finger for b.

I did not learn touch-typing.  I do very weird things when I type, including crossing my hands over one another for some words, or using both hands on one side of the keyboard at the same time.

[sudgy]

Agh, now I'm trying to figure out which hand I use to press space bar.

And I did that whole sentence with my left hand.  Apparently I use my left hand to hit space bar.

[heron]

Space: Right
B: Left
Y: Varies

[liopoil]

I believe I use my left hand for v-g-y-6 and my right hand for 7-u-h-b-space. left thumb does nothing except for the alt key, right thumb only hits space

[Ozle]

I have to use my pointy stick as my fingers are too fat

[Thisisnotasmile]

My split is left 5-r-f-c, right 7-u-h-n. I use my nose for 6,t,y,g,v and b.

[Kuildeous]

Has anybody type Dvorak?  Anybody tried?  I have some friends who use it, just to be different.

I've not used a non-QWERTY keyboard.

I did experiment with a one-handed keyboard. It was interesting. It was a demo for some portable keyboard that you could attach to your….man, I can't remember what it was. I'm thinking PDA because this predated smart phones.

The demo only allowed you to type keys on one half of the keyboard (which half depends on your handedness). You hold down a new key with your thumb to flip the keyboard so that L and S are interchangeable, as are I and E.

It was remarkably easy to type one-handedly. There was some stumbling, but it felt natural after a while. Obviously still slower, but it'd be interesting to see if someone could type just as quickly. I'm guessing not just because there is that split second between fingers on opposite hands that just make the letters appear near-simultaneous.

[mail-mi]

"b" is whatever I feel like (I dont' know when I do it.) I also use my middle finger for u and my ring finger for q.

[blueblimp]

Has anybody type Dvorak?  Anybody tried?  I have some friends who use it, just to be different.

I've not used a non-QWERTY keyboard.

I did experiment with a one-handed keyboard. It was interesting. It was a demo for some portable keyboard that you could attach to your….man, I can't remember what it was. I'm thinking PDA because this predated smart phones.

The demo only allowed you to type keys on one half of the keyboard (which half depends on your handedness). You hold down a new key with your thumb to flip the keyboard so that L and S are interchangeable, as are I and E.

It was remarkably easy to type one-handedly. There was some stumbling, but it felt natural after a while. Obviously still slower, but it'd be interesting to see if someone could type just as quickly. I'm guessing not just because there is that split second between fingers on opposite hands that just make the letters appear near-simultaneous.

Two one-handed keyboards might be the fastest way to type of all. Every word could be completely alternated between hands. Man would that ever be hard to learn though.

[Thisisnotasmile]

Has anybody here tried a KALQ keyboard? It's optimised for thumb-typing (i.e. phones and tablets) and I thought it sounded amazing when I first read about it, but you couldn't actually download one at the time. Should I give it a go?

[shraeye]

anybody else get really upset when they have to type on non-standard keyboards?

At work, if I have to use one of the math department's terminals instead of my laptop, they all have Sun Microsystems-style keyboards.  Very infuriating.  Especially when typing LaTeX code, because the '\' key is used frequently and my pinky gets flippin' tired from the stretch.

Also, one of my two main criteria when buying a laptop was "does not have a condensed keyboard".

[Awaclus]

I just accidentally completed a "28 hours per day, 6 days per week" experiment. It worked pretty well, except on Monday when I had to stay awake longer than I wanted to because I had to attend to a mathematics class (my apologies for the large number of low quality posts that night).

[AHoppy]

http://xkcd.com/320/

[heron]

http://dynamic.xkcd.com/random/comic/