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tatsuke95 · 2012-10-30 14:48:27+00:00

QWERTY, good example.

Thanks.

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aldanor | karma 1483 | avg karma 2.0 · | 2019-04-01 17:05:48

Yea that's a good one. Same with numbers and special characters.

Someone needs to make a velocity-sensitive mechanical qwerty keyboard :)

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nekgrim | karma 472 | avg karma 3.81 · | 2011-03-15 21:57:20+00:00

This also works with "qwerty" (i thought something was wrong the first time, but couldn't find what, thanks !)

syngrog66 | karma 311 | avg karma 0.42 · | 2021-12-28 11:27:17

agreed. heh. thankfully though at least 3 of them can be expressed with a normal keyboard:

ab

a * b

a X b

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evanb | karma 4726 | avg karma 4.73 · | 2012-02-08 11:39:21+00:00

C jab yrgjd yfl. cb ',.pyf xgy mf t.fxrape co cb ekrpatv

( I can touch type in qwerty but my keyboard is in dvorak. )

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Bostonian | karma 7467 | avg karma 2.17 · | 2021-10-24 06:40:33

On a regular keyboard, how would you type in the examples?

singularity2001 | karma 3503 | avg karma 1.5 · | 2022-07-13 10:24:48

neat, thanks!

it's still a bit unergonomic to type but a very useful beginning!

Reminds me of hurting my fingers in c where you had to type '->' instead of '.' !

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tgb | karma 5680 | avg karma 2.93 · | 2017-03-20 15:08:44

Seems very nice. It's a little odd that the examples include characters that are hard to type on most keyboards.

alpaca128 | karma 7759 | avg karma 2.86 · | 2021-03-17 18:21:42

> # and $ are neighbors on pretty much any keyboard layout

Aside from ISO QWERTY, AZERTY and at least 3 different QWERTZ variants, among others.

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lightedman | karma 759 | avg karma 0.49 · | 2019-11-06 15:41:54

A and S are right next to each other on a QWERTY keyboard.

kristianp | karma 11941 | avg karma 3.44 · | 2011-02-26 03:02:44+00:00

Let's see: Home, End, Pg Up, Pg Down, Delete, Insert.

But seriously, I use the numeric keypad myself, especially when entering strings of numbers. Any touch-typist would have learnt how to use the numeric keypad.

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KiwiNige | karma 260 | avg karma 2.92 · | 2008-09-10 23:00:44

Thank you

Edit: why is learning to type a dirty little secret?

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loup-vaillant | karma 9865 | avg karma 2.28 · | 2010-12-27 15:55:22

A) Agree, especially since we have syntax highlighting.

B) Agree. I have a better excuse: "not everyone uses Qwerty". In my keyboard, for instance "-" is very accessible, and "/" a tiny bit less so.

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aero-glide2 | karma 1324 | avg karma 2.96 · | 2022-07-02 23:42:09

It allows non-words like qwertyuiop so it's quite easy.

lostlogin | karma 16171 | avg karma 1.72 · | 2013-08-01 18:32:55+00:00

Having 0 and o next to each other on a keyboard is great too.

iambateman | karma 4627 | avg karma 4.74 · | 2013-10-15 19:54:07+00:00

This article was written on a keyboard.

kthxbai.

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zrm | karma 2716 | avg karma 3.04 · | 2017-03-25 16:47:10+00:00

Programs often allow you to type arbitrary binary values using a keyboard, either by holding a keyboard control key and typing the numeric value, or prefixing it with '\'.

erinnh | karma 552 | avg karma 2.42 · | 2023-08-02 13:40:27

Thanks. Phone keyboards are hard sometimes.

Raphmedia | karma 5930 | avg karma 2.63 · | 2014-12-23 17:38:16+00:00

Please, put the letter as qwertyuiop... and not abcdefg... Otherwise, cool project!

marcianx | karma 115 | avg karma 3.38 · | 2022-09-25 00:11:27

Haha, yes! I'm a software engineer and it took me a decade of smartphone usage before I realized that long-pressing various keys (e.g. vowels, symbols) shows a pop-up allowing you to enter related characters (e.g. á, æ, ¡, ?, ±, ·, ½, ²)†. Blew my tiny little mind! If I were using a language that required the variants menu in its native keyboard layout, I might have discovered this a decade before by explicitly searching for how to enter certain characters.

† Typed these on mobile, of course. Android, in case you're wondering.

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