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Re: One Handed Keyboard

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I'm trying to understand why this isn't a thing already. It seems there would be a market for it; when you consider all the different keyboards shapes and sizes...

Check out chorded keyboards. They've been a thing for a very long time. At least since early 00s or 90s when I saw them first. They are held one handed have 5 keys and you get different letters by chording multiple keys together.

first consumer device I ever saw was the Microwriter, back in the 1980's .. but court stenographers have been using chorded keyboards for a century or more

- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microwriter

- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stenotype

Re: One Handed Keyboard

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Just leaving some links here because I had been researching this intensively before a planned shoulder surgery: (Definitely adding this to my list) Frogpad: German language one handed keyboard. Unfortunately discontinued http://frogpad.com/ Mirrorboard (my favorite): Intruiging mirror solution that builds upon the assumption that it is easier to access muscle memory from the other hand when you've learned it before h…

I lost the use of my right hand in '06.

It's amazing how quickly you adapt. I have to put my mouse to the left of my keyboard and whereas before I was a touch typist, I now have to look.

And I can use a standard keyboard without undue hassle.

Re: One Handed Keyboard

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About 20 years ago I wrote a little program to turn my own standard keyboard into something I could type on one hand with. It's basically just T9, with every basic letter key bound to two letters instead of one. (The mirror counterpart from the other side of the keyboard.)

It's a shit demo from college and I always wanted to share the concept but never made it presentable.

https://github.com/cilphex/QuickBoard

Re: One Handed Keyboard

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

Just being pedantic and off-topic here, but macOS hasn't been called OS X for nearly ten years: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MacOS#macOS

Some of us still use OS X and haven't made the unnecessary switch to any of the macOS that followed it. :)

It'll always be OSX to me. Fight the branding!
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