Ever getting tired of switching your hand to and from the mouse? Ever wondering how to type fast and leisurely with a single hand, while use another hand to hold a cup of coffee?
- You may have already known there are some expensive hardwares for one hand typing, such as half-qwerty keyboard and Frogpad.
- There are also free software ones, such as the sing-hand AHK script available from the AutoHotkey forum. But you may not like to freqently press “Space bar” as this largely slows down the speed. Moreover if you type fast without switch off “Spacebar mode”, there are some interferences.
- There are also some single hand keyboard layouts exist, such as “one hand Dvorak“, “Left hand Ngaih” and “ENTI“. However switching the keyboard layout in a daily usage is really troublesome. No to say learning a new keyboard layout can often be a disaster for most people.
- Another approach is to use f, g, h and j as home positions, but it needs long range hand movements and hence a long time to master. You may also feel tired soon since the exercise is too intensive.
Let’s see what people talk about learning a different keyboard layout, e.g. Dvorak 1 2 . So most of us are not satisfied with existing methods. Moreover, most of them can not be easily customerized and the typing speed is limited. Indeed some people only use single-hand typing for 30~40% of their time, and it is preferable that single hand typing and two hand typing can co-exist without switching. A novel free tool based on the principle of “Chorded Keyboard” is then presented here. Let’s find more …
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