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Left to Write: Adaptive Keyboards & Writing Technologies for One-Handed Users (99percentinvisible.org)

submitted 2 months ago by merde@sh.itjust.works to c/mechanical_keyboards@programming.dev

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posting this here as anybody who is slightly interested in different keyboards would enjoy this read and the 99% episode about it

Left to Write is a three-article set about adaptive writing technologies for one-handed users. This first piece explores accessible keyboards; the next details the process of developing a new keymap for comfortably touch-typing with one hand on a conventional two-handed board; the third explains how to convert your own QWERTY into a single-handed KURTY.

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[–] Deebster@programming.dev 3 points 2 months ago

That mirrored mode is interesting and made sense to me even before I read the explanation. I'd assumed it only makes sense for using the left hand and that using just the right would need a different version of the keyboard, but there doesn't seem to be a flipped version.

[–] jet@hackertalks.com 3 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

No mention of the twiddler

https://www.mytwiddler.com/

Or the frogpad

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/FrogPad