Do you find yourself using just one hand for typing if that is all that is required?

I dont really type properly, so no I dont do that.

i don’t visit those sorts of websites.

only when I’m eating at the same time! :-)

I think that is kinda peculiar. There must be some subconscious genius in you to deduce that you will only need that hand.

Before apple rolled out the landscape format for the iPhone in email, notes and text I would sometimes type with just one hand, especially if typing while in bed.

If you look at the keyboard (that whole phrase is right hand dominant, as is what I just typed in parens), most of the frequently used letters are on the left hand side. With the exception of I, O, U, L, N, what’s on the right side is punctuation, and M, K, P, H, and Y.

If you weren’t required to take typing in high school, it’s entirely likely that you didn’t self-teach yourself to use both hands properly.

Hmmm, I never thought about it, but in looking at what I’m doing here, I type with both hands. I’ve never been good at being able to type without looking at the key board. Some can do it without making one mistake, but mine would look like Chinese if did that. LOL

I believe the reason the keyboard was designed the way it was was to be left hand dominant as well as most dependent on the pinkie and index fingers and the thumb. I quite sure I read about that recently.

Personally I notice that sometimes my right hand is just suspended over the keyboard waiting to type something.

I can type faster on my iPhone than I can on a regular keyboard. Isn’t that sad?

@PandoraBoxx , that is a good point about the left hand letters being more common, but I miss your point about being taught to type. It is only because I was taught to type that I can distinguish left hand and right hand letters.

I’ve noticed that a lot of self-taught people seem to use just their index and middle fingers, and are quite fast like that. I had a typing teacher who had been a typist and quartermaster in the Air Force for 20 years. He was blazing fast on a Selectric.

@LostInParadise, that’s because in our day, guys did not always take typing in high school, so I added that. In my high school, kids who were college bound were discouraged from taking typing. These days, keyboarding is rarely offered, and typewriters are nonexistent. If anyone is taught at all, it’s self-taught with Mavis Beacon or some other online program.

I often type with only my right hand… especially if the left is holding a sammich.

Only when I’m using the other hand for….

@hearkat I think @eponymoushipster already made a joke about the questioner holding his bologna.

@filmfann: I didn’t read the other responses, and was not making any suggestive comments. I am a female and do not use the computer for porn.

I often surf the web while eating, and to avoid getting foodstuffs on my keyboard, I eat with the left and type with the right.

sorry, I’m not in a jovial mood this morning; as I am dealing with a bit of grief and heartbreak

I always use two hands (unless one is unavailable say eating food or a hurt wrist etc..). I type much faster and more accurately. Perhaps that is laziness on my part, better yet it is impatience. I just don’t like doing things slower then I know I can.

@hearkat I wasn’t suggesting you were making that joke. I was connecting your innocent comment to @eponymoushipster ‘s obviously crude one.
I am sorry for your recent heartache, and sorry my comment may have upset you.

I spent a few months this summer teaching myself to type properly. I still make an unholy amount of mistakes, but at least now I do it twice as fast! Typing with only one hand seems unnatural to me.

@filmfann bologna? more like sopressata…

I use both hands except when Milo is on my lap and annoyed at the hand bouncing around in front of his nose. Then I have to be ambidextrious, but find it difficult.

@PandoraBoxx

So when you type with both hands, do you type “properly” (using the home-row style)? Because I don’t use that method, and I often find myself typing with one hand while I multi-task. And I tend to use my left hand, although I am also left hand dominant, so that might be a factor.

I have to use one hand when i’m telling kids to get off my lawn and flailing about wildly. stupid young people, mowing my lawn. grr…—Gus

@Foolaholic, I do use home row, and type with all 10 fingers. The cramped nature of a laptop slows me down.

@filmfann: No harm, no foul; I was just explaining why I wasn’t joking along…

@all who commented and sent PMs… I am sincerely touched by your concern. I just got slapped in the face with a reality check, and the pill is far more bitter than I was expecting. Chapter closed, time to look forward… Thanks again.

The QWERTY keyboard was actually designed to spread the commonly used letter and punctuation combinations equally between your two hands to help prevent typewriter jams.

There are some that have trained themselves to specifically use one handed keyboard layouts.

@Shuttle128, what an interesting website!

I type with one hand when I am typing something out from a book, whether that be a recipe or a quote.

I’m okay at it, but wish I either had a one-handed keyboard (I’ve lusted after this one for years) or three hands. :D

I was taught to type on “home row” by my seventh grade typing/computer teacher. I’m actually quite fast on any non-sticky keyboard, and mostly type without looking.

@Shuttle128 , I was surprised to learn that the anti-jam explanation of the keyboard layout is an urban legend. I wonder what the reasoning was behind the keyboard layout, although the article says that alternative layouts do not improve typing speed.

This is off topic, but I wonder if there is any benefit to so called ergonomic keyboards.
http://www.fentek-ind.com/ergo.htm?gclid=CITWzvPci54CFaM45QodaQpkpA

Only when I am eating with the other!

@LostInParadise I don’t think it’s actually an urban legend. The idea that it’s designed to slow down typing surely is. However the arrangement is designed to separate commonly used letter combinations.

QWERTY

I type with one hand if I have something in the other hand, but since I only use one or two fingers on each hand when I type, that makes things go as slow as molasses in the winter.