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One Handed Typing (One Handed Dvorak, Left Hand Ngaih)

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I've been reflecting on workstation ergonomics (specifically music production). Touch screens, tablets, mice with lots of buttons: all great - what's still not great...switching between keyboard and mouse....so it occured to me to look up left handed typing...and low and behold - wiki article with a few layouts.

Does anyone here employ a 1 handed typing workflow specifically for staying on mouse. The idea seems compelling - would require a serious commitment.

Please share your experiences, layouts, github links to keyboards!

My schoolmate used to touchtype on good old button phone (abc def ... you get the idea) and he could do it with a hand in a pocket (no matter right and left) for the sake of cheating on exams. Also I type a lot on a numpad (only numbers) but it is too optimized for a right hand. Also I'm almost sure there are kbds with a numpad for a right hand, maybe they even have a symmetrical place for zero, dot, Enter and +-*/

Seems like the possible solution you need lies on the intersection of the three.

one handed chorded keyboard would probably do the trick - big time investment in learning. I guess this thread is mainly to explore the idea.

Right hand would probably be a better candidate for 1 handed typing - as its my dominant - my mouse game on left hand is weak - though i did train to use it for years after I broke my elbow!

What do you need a keyboard for, to mark where is kick and where is snare while playing with knobs, or to write a transcription of somebody's talk while playing with knobs?

I use to write comments on HN using a 10-button kbd sometimes so if you do not need to write a long lines this approach is the most comfortable way of typing while driving when you have only one free hand and almost no free attention.

Chord keyboard looks like too alien and as a Dvorak touchtyper I do not think anything might be faster for me if considering time-to-learn. I have been switching for 10 years from QWERTY to Dvorak until I have got an ability to input all of my passwords w/o looking so I do not believe that learning a chord kbd is an easy way.

Actually I used to solve a similar problem with mouse/kbd switching and my solution is to stick to keyboard and touchtype-friendly interfaces, such as Vim.

when you say 10 button kbd, are you referring to Aphanumeric? or something else?

keyboards are for shortcuts and for naming things.

daws like renoise i think? can be used by sticking to keyboard more than any other daw. Most require mousing around, and some shortcuts, and some clip/file naming.

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