[HN Gopher] Ask HN: Options for One-Handed Typing
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Ask HN: Options for One-Handed Typing
A relative of mine recently suffered a serious injury to their
dominant (right) arm, which will have a long recovery period
(likely several months). Ideally finger movement will be restored
sooner, but even if so it might not be comfortable to keep the
injured arm in an ergonomic typing position. So I wanted to
prepare some options for one-handed typing that they can review. At
first glance, it looks like solutions fall into one of three
categories: - Trainings on how to effectively use a keyboard with
one hand - Keyboard remappings on existing hardware to use
alternative key layouts that favor the keys on the left side -
Specialty keyboards that are intended to be used with one hand.
Some of these seem promising but also shockingly expensive. Any
thoughts on what solutions you've seen work / you might pursue in a
similar situation?
Author : Townley
Score : 49 points
Date : 2025-06-03 19:17 UTC (3 hours ago)
| janice1999 wrote:
| Have you considered voice dictation and control? There are good
| commercial solutions and even some free ones (like
| https://talonvoice.com/ - edit: not open source but has lots of
| community plugins). I used it for a while when I was recovering
| from hand problems. I was surprised how easy it was to learn. It
| helped a lot for tasks like navigating windows, writing emails
| etc. There are even voice coding applications now
| (https://www.cursorless.org/).
| jonah-archive wrote:
| I intermittently use a Twiddler (older version). The learning
| curve is initially steep but fine with practice. It's not cheap
| but it's not that expensive, and it works for mousing as well:
| https://www.tekgear.com/twiddler-4-wrap.html
| kace91 wrote:
| Any specifics on the kind of typing they need?
|
| If it's human text (as opposed to code), one handed swipe style
| typing on a smartphone can get really fluid, and it's relatively
| easy to get for someone who is a touch typer. I'd check on ways
| to use that as computer input if needed.
| AstroBen wrote:
| My first thought would be to have them look into voice dictation
| instead of relying only on one hand. That would be much faster
| than typing
| lburton wrote:
| This will depend a bit on the person but for me when I injured my
| right arm I found that my touch typing muscle memory worked
| surprisingly well with a toggle key to flip the left side of my
| keyboard to become a mirrored version of the right side. Each
| finger was still hitting the same key like it would if I was
| using my right hand to hit the key but on my left hand. This was
| fairly easy to accomplish on a QMK firmware keyboard (I was also
| already typing on a split keyboard so that might be part of the
| reason it was fairly easy to adjust). See
| https://docs.qmk.fm/features/swap_hands#swap-hands-action
| bryanlarsen wrote:
| Yes, I was just going to make this suggestion. If it's a
| temporary problem, you probably don't want a solution that
| requires extensive retraining to use. A mirrored keyboard takes
| advantage of existing brain wiring.
|
| autohotkey layout: https://github.com/hanmindev/mirrorboard
|
| xkb layout: https://blog.xkcd.com/2007/08/14/mirrorboard-a-one-
| handed-ke...
| jfengel wrote:
| In a quick experiment, I found that utterly baffling. On zero
| practice, it was much faster for me to type with just my left
| hand. (Though it requires me to keep looking at the keyboard,
| because I'm leaving the home position.)
| fouronnes3 wrote:
| I am low key thinking about trying this without any disability,
| as a way of always keeping the right hand on the mouse.
| barbazoo wrote:
| Foot pedal maybe? Or maybe a dedicated mouse button.
| bravesoul2 wrote:
| I like the idea. Don't you love those words like "creed" or
| "scare" that can be typed with one hand!
| faizshah wrote:
| I had the same experience, my typing speed with two hands is
| 90-120 but with one hand i can still get 50-70. The hard part
| is punctuation but with AI these days you could try just
| prompting and let the AI deal with syntax for you.
| bravesoul2 wrote:
| That's a fast speed. I practice to get to 60 then said well,
| that's good enough!
| arjvik wrote:
| Randall Munroe talks about exactly this:
|
| https://blog.xkcd.com/2007/08/14/mirrorboard-a-one-handed-ke...
| idahoduncan wrote:
| I have this set up using kmonad[1], and the following config.
| Many punctation marks are obviously missing, but I'm sure they
| could be added with a little thought. The mirrored layout is
| toggled by holding the space key. (defalias
| lhs (tap-next-release spc (layer-toggle ytrewq)))
| (deflayer ytrewq _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
| _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ bspc 0 9
| 8 7 6 _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
| _ p o i u y _ _ _ _ _ _ _
| _ ret ; l k j h _ _ _ _
| _ _ _ _ _ lsft / . , m n
| _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
| _ _ _ _ _ _ _)
|
| 1. https://github.com/kmonad/kmonad
| behnamoh wrote:
| kmonad: written in Haskell config
| in Lisp
|
| Best of both worlds!
| arccy wrote:
| on a phone: swipe / glide typing only requires 1 finger. good
| enough for general text.
| colgandev wrote:
| First of all, condolences to your friend and cool of you to look
| into this.
|
| Back in the day I switched to Dvorak and came across the "one
| handed Dvorak layout. This may be what you are referring to. I
| haven't tried it much but those layouts could be a temporary
| solution. I found Qwerty to be a lot easier to type one handed
| straight up because Dvorak tries to alternate hands between keys.
|
| I recently discovered Talon, an open source app for voice control
| of basically everything on a machine that requires no typing at
| all. I saw some people are using it even if they can use their
| hands, as a power tool. It appears to be fully Python scriptable
| and also gives you some nice speech to text abilities too.
|
| It allows you to specify a bunch of keywords for typing symbols
| and it looks like some people can do full coding quite quickly.
|
| Perhaps this injury could be an opportunity to try something like
| this and become more powerful than before?
|
| Best of luck and recovery to your friend.
|
| https://talonvoice.com/
| janice1999 wrote:
| Talon is not open source as far as I know. It's freeware with
| Patreon early access and support. The community plugins cover a
| wide range of applications and are easy to modify. I also found
| their Slack good for discussing accessibility options like gaze
| tracking. It looks like development has slowed significantly
| but the developer recently rewrote the core in Rust.
| colgandev wrote:
| Ah, that's my mistake, thanks!
| jdknezek wrote:
| I had a family member who broke a finger on their prominent hand
| and used the left-handed Dvorak layout while it healed, getting
| up to about 40 WPM:
|
| https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dvorak_keyboard_layout#One-han...
| DonHopkins wrote:
| https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38400368
|
| DonHopkins on Nov 24, 2023 | parent | context | favorite | on: AI
| is currently just glorified compression
|
| I love David MacKay's brilliant work on the Dasher text input
| system, which draws deeply from his work on information theory --
| imagine Dasher integrated with an IDE and code search and Copilot
| and language model!
|
| "Writing is navigating in the library of all possible books."
| -David MacKay
|
| We just allocate more shelf space to the more probable letters.
|
| Why isn't Dasher built into every operating system and mobile
| phone?
|
| https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dasher_(software)
|
| https://dasher.acecentre.net/about/
|
| https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17105728
|
| DonHopkins on May 18, 2018 | parent | context | favorite | on:
| Pie Menus: A 30-Year Retrospective: Take a Look an...
|
| Dasher is fantastic, because it's based on rock solid information
| theory, designed by the late David MacKay. Here is the seminal
| Google Tech Talk about it:
|
| https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wpOxbesRNBc
|
| Here is a demo of using Dasher by an engineer at Google, Ada
| Majorek, who has ALS and uses Dasher and a Headmouse to program:
|
| https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LvHQ83pMLQQ
|
| Another one of her demonstrating Dasher:
|
| Ada Majorek Introduction - CSUN Dasher
|
| https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SvsSrClBwPM
|
| Here's a more recent presentation about it, that tells all about
| the latest open source release of Dasher 5:
|
| Dasher - CSUN 2016 - Ada Majorek and Raquel Romano
|
| https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qFlkM_e-sDg
|
| Here's the github repo:
|
| Dasher Version 4.11
|
| https://github.com/GNOME/dasher
|
| >Dasher is a zooming predictive text entry system, designed for
| situations where keyboard input is impractical (for instance,
| accessibility or PDAs). It is usable with highly limited amounts
| of physical input while still allowing high rates of text entry.
|
| Ada referred me to this mind bending prototype:
|
| D@sher Prototype - An adaptive, hierarchical radial menu.
|
| https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5oSfEM8XpH4
|
| >( http://www.inference.org.uk/dasher ) - a really neat way to
| "dive" through a menu hierarchy/, or through recursively nested
| options (to build words, letter by letter, swiftly). D@sher takes
| Dasher, and gives it a twist, making slightly better use of
| screen revenue.
|
| >It also "learns" your typical useage, making more frequently
| selected options larger than sibling options. This makes it
| faster to use, each time you use it.
|
| >More information here: http://beznesstime.blogspot.com and here:
| https://forums.tigsource.com/index.php?topic=960
|
| Dasher is even a viable way to input text in VR, just by pointing
| your head, without a special input device!
|
| Text Input with Oculus Rift:
|
| https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FFQgluUwV2U
|
| >As part of VR development environment I'm currently writing (
| https://github.com/xanxys/construct ), I've implemented dasher (
| http://www.inference.org.uk/dasher ) to input text.
|
| One important property of Dasher is that you can pre-train it on
| a corpus of typical text, and dynamically train it while you use
| it. It learns the patterns of letters and words you use often,
| and those become bigger and bigger targets that string together
| so you can select them even more quickly!
|
| Ada Majorek has it configured to toggle between English and her
| native language so she can switch between writing email to her
| family abroad and co-workers at google.
|
| Now think of what you could do with a version of dasher
| integrated with a programmer's IDE, that knew the syntax of the
| programming language you're using, as well as the names of all
| the variables and functions in scope, plus how often they're
| used!
|
| I have a long term pie in the sky "grand plan" about developing a
| JavaScript based programmable accessibility system I call
| "aQuery", like "jQuery" for accessibility. It would be a great
| way to deeply integrate Dasher with different input devices and
| applications across platforms, and make them accessible to people
| with limited motion, as well as users of VR and AR and mobile
| devices.
|
| https://web.archive.org/web/20180826132551/http://donhopkins...
|
| Here's some discussion on hacker news, to which I contributed
| some comments about Dasher:
|
| A History of Palm, Part 1: Before the PalmPilot (lowendmac.com)
|
| https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12306377
| novosel wrote:
| Excuse me, maybe I am not getting it, why is this downvoted?
|
| I came here to suggest Dasher to OP also.
| pavel_lishin wrote:
| This was ... about 20 years ago, and I don't even remember why I
| wanted to do this, but I found some software that let me remap
| the keyboard somehow - so I picked a key (probably caps lock?)
| that would "mirror" the standard QWERTY layout.
|
| F would become J; S would become L, etc.
|
| I was able to have a fairly decent input speed.
|
| I wish I remembered why I did this. I think I had some tedious
| task that I couldn't figure out how to automate, that required me
| to have one hand on the mouse[1] most of the time, and swapping
| between keyboard and mouse all the time got tedious enough that I
| invested the time.
|
| [1] Yes, the mouse. :)
|
| edit: Ah, someone already made the same suggestion elsewhere
| here! I'm glad it's a popular choice.
| system2 wrote:
| I am very interested in keyboard and built some like dactyl
| manuform. I watched this one on youtube and was impressed:
| https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rNU5rRbhzTU
|
| Also if you go down the youtube rabbit hole you will find many
| interesting 1 hand layouts.
| add-sub-mul-div wrote:
| I've used Talon for voice and AutoHotKey for mapping the caps
| lock key as a mouse click. But beware, suddenly using the non
| dominant side much more to compensate can cause issues. I
| probably needed some proactive physical therapy or strengthening
| on the non injured side.
| rowla wrote:
| One-handed typer here - well, one hand and one finger, and it's
| been like this for all my life. Your friend may want to consider
| text macro tools such as Keyboard Maestro for macOS. There are
| many others, but KM will also launch apps and do other magic for
| me just by typing two or three letters. Create a list of
| frequently used words or segments, define a generic expansion key
| (in my case #) that doesn't require a modifier. I have more than
| 1000 of these macros, and it really helps with all those long
| words in my native German. Dictation may also help, although I
| find that it leads my thoughts in different directions when I see
| words appear on the screen as I speak.
| donatj wrote:
| My dad has the same situation, one arm and one finger on said
| arm - the beefiest pinky you've ever seen.
|
| He does most of his typing these days with voice-to-text on his
| Android phone, and he's pretty adept with it. Otherwise he gets
| by pretty well with a standard Apple keyboard. He's not winning
| any speed awards but he does alright.
| yehoshuapw wrote:
| for/from a phone: https://github.com/dessalines/thumb-key
| jankins wrote:
| When I broke my collarbone on my dominant arm I learned Dvorak
| left-handed layout a QMK keyboard. I configured some layers to
| make all the symbols needed for programming easy to access, and
| hold-space-for-shift. I learned the layout using Epistory, a
| typing game. There's several similar games now that look helpful.
| It was slower but workable.
| manish_gill wrote:
| Co-incidentally, saw this video on Microsoft's VSCode Youtube
| channel yesterday - the Engineer in question was born without a
| right hand and shows her workflow with accessibility tools:
| https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pUPqKm5wVhw
|
| Hope this helps your relative. Good luck.
| aguynamedben wrote:
| Along with figuring out the typing, don't underestimate how
| powerful voice transcription has become with apps like
| superwhisper https://superwhisper.com/
| daviddisco wrote:
| Your friend might also consider No Handed Typing i.e. speech
| based typing. The tools for this have really progressed in recent
| times. I have a friend who codes full time without using his
| hands. He uses https://talonvoice.com/ but I'm sure there are
| other tools as well.
| deng wrote:
| Specialty keyboards like the TiPY are indeed very expensive, here
| in the EU it's a thousand (!) Euros:
|
| https://tipykeyboard.com/en/produkt/tipy-keyboard-black-en
|
| However, if your relative is employed and needs to type for the
| job, then there's a good chance the employer will pay for it if
| it means they can work more efficiently during these months.
| Another option, which however is much less likely to succeed and
| will probably take much longer, is to try to get this through
| health insurance.
| wrp wrote:
| I once needed to seriously investigate a setup for one-handed
| typing. My conclusion at the time was that after a learning
| period, one-hand typing on a regular keyboard was just as
| productive as using a special keyboard, and had the advantage of
| not needing special facilities. I think the only special feature
| needed was the addition of a "sticky" key facility.
| bearded_comrade wrote:
| I came across this on Instagram today:
|
| https://www.instagram.com/reel/DKcV8_cPHll/
|
| They made a one handed keyboard for someone who can't use their
| right hand. They also open sourced it on github:
|
| https://github.com/htx-studio/One-Handed-Keyboard
| kingnothing wrote:
| I had a surgery once upon a time on my non-dominant arm which
| left me in a one-handed typing state for a couple of months. I
| simply used one hand on a full size keyboard. My typing speed
| went through the floor, but it was doable. I doubt I would invest
| the time, effort, and expense to learn dedicated hardware if I
| had to go through it again. I definitely would explore those
| options if I had permanent loss of the hand, though.
| bshacklett wrote:
| Perhaps I missed it, but I'm amazed I didn't see any mention of
| Maltron here:
|
| https://www.maltron.com/store/p19/Maltron_Single_Hand_Keyboa...
|
| They're expensive, and the other options mentioned may be better,
| but I feel like they should be included for completeness' sake at
| the very least.
| xupybd wrote:
| [delayed]
| saulrh wrote:
| I know someone who uses a Twiddler full-time, and I used mine for
| about a month when I broke my dominant hand about a decade ago.
| Works very well if your hand is the right size for it.
|
| I have a tap strap, but I use it mostly as a remote control for
| my TV, not as a primary input device. It probably works, but I'm
| not good enough with it to have the kind of error rate I'd really
| like.
|
| Android has a Morse input method which would be entirely suitable
| for one-handed text input and there are certainly solutions for
| using an android phone as a keyboard, but I don't know how it'd
| handle things like arrow keys.
| friedtofu wrote:
| Its been a while since this happened but I laid my motorcycle
| down, ended up fracturing my wrist. Honestly, if you aren't used
| to one handed typing its not worth the time to train to get good
| at it(I'm assuming they're right hand dominant) its all just
| muscle memory. If they can pick it up quickly go for it, keyboard
| bindings, or something like predictive text assistance, or even
| vim-like remappings are an interesting idea.
|
| IMO - if possible just peck-type(like an old lady who is learning
| to use a keyboard) or use text to speech/AI & editing where
| possible - like in emails. They shouldn't be using the left
| arm/hand much right after surgery anyway. If they're programming
| definitely not as easy but still doable.
| hackshack wrote:
| A keyboard with the keys pulled and replaced in the Dvorak "LH"
| (left hand) layout might be worth a try. Years ago, I had a hand
| injury for several weeks and this got me through. Took about a
| week or two to type reasonably well. It remaps the number row to
| one side for maximum use of the keys on the strong side.
|
| August Dvorak developed these "LH" and "RH" layouts for amputees.
| The layouts are well thought out IMHO. It feels like typing on a
| numeric keypad.
| innocentoldguy wrote:
| I used Dvorak when I injured my dominant hand. It took me about
| two weeks to feel comfortable with it. My hand healed a long
| time ago, but I still use Dvorak (the two handed version
| mostly) because I think it is easier than Qwerty. I highly
| recommend this solution.
| fsiefken wrote:
| over the years i tried the following options, all have their down
| and upsides, I prefer the half-dvorak layout to the frogpad and
| the twiddler2, I also like the morse code solution, but input
| might be slower.
|
| * mattias half-qwerty or a similar half-dvorak layout (different
| from rh/lh dvorak)
|
| * frogpad (a onehanded keyboard)
|
| * twiddler2 (a chording one-hand joystick/keyboard)
|
| * morse code with a mouse, keyboard or special keying device
| https://makoa.org/jlubin/morsecode.htm
|
| https://github.com/grahamwhaley/pico_vband
| https://github.com/acecentre/morace
|
| * shorthand augment these methods with bref or superwrite
| alphabetic shorthand so you have to type around 40% less
| https://www.reddit.com/r/shorthand/comments/esjhdk/bref_shor...
| rcarmo wrote:
| I have one of these: https://artsey.io/ - it has only eight keys,
| and I love it: https://taoofmac.com/space/blog/2023/08/08/1230
|
| The layout/project is a bit niche, but I can vouch that it works,
| even if slowly at first (I am mostly right-handed but ordered a
| left-handed one and it's become quite natural to use, although I
| will fumble some keys and symbols on occasion).
|
| You can order something like a Keychron keyboard (they have many
| models that support VIA/QMK and full keyboard remapping) and
| implement the same layout, or something more "natural" like a
| mirror layout.
| evanjrowley wrote:
| The Taipo layout is ported to QMK, ZMK, and KMK keyboards. It is
| meant to be useable with one hand. It's also a chording layout
| that requires far fewer keys than most keyboards. It's on my list
| of things to try this year: https://inkeys.wiki/en/keymaps/taipo
| justinc8687 wrote:
| Once their finger movement has been restored, I'd look into
| various large-split keyboards. The Kinesis Freestyle2 USB version
| has a large split (20") option that could help. They have screw
| hole mounts on the bottom which you could likely jerry-rig with a
| sling to put the keyboard in the proper position. I used it with
| a custom 3d-printed mount so that I could attach it to the arms
| of my chair.
|
| The wireless version has less of a gap, but you could always just
| get two of them and use the left half of one and the right half
| of another.
|
| Feel free to reach out to me at justin (at) justin-c (dot) com,
| if you want to talk. I spent about 5 years working on custom
| mounting options for keyboards after getting a severe RSI,
| ultimately proven to be partially caused by a rheumatic
| condition.
| anamexis wrote:
| I will also plug the Keyboard.io Model 100 here. It has a ton
| of mounting options including tripod screws for custom
| solutions. The halves are connected with a standard ethernet
| cable so you can have them any distance apart.
|
| https://shop.keyboard.io/products/model-100
| justinc8687 wrote:
| Another thing worth mentioning, if they are a coder, is that
| this is one of the places where some of the LLM tools can
| really shine. Many people provide a rough spec, then either
| (shutter) vibe-code or edit substantially once it produces it.
|
| Having a RSI myself, I find that I can provide very detailed
| instructions in regular english, for which voice dictation
| works quite well to Cursor (but any others should work too),
| then it will produce code that I have to edit very little. For
| most people this wouldn't be an efficient flow, but it greatly
| helps me reduce typing, thus is beneficial to me.
|
| With something like that, I believe you could do well pecking
| around with one hand for edits without needing to do much
| typing.
|
| On Mac, Karabiner-Elements is incredibly useful to remap
| things, such that you can enable things like mousekeys or
| otherwise that would keep from having to move (either) hand
| very much. It's also a way to do as others have shown on this
| post and do a mirror layout or add something analogous to
| layers without having to buy new keyboards.
| rockemsockem wrote:
| I was in a full arm cast (including fingers) for 9 months in
| college while taking many CS classes and I just used my one hand
| to type on the full qwerty keyboard. It definitely slowed me
| down, but I got up to ~60 wpm with the one hand. I think it's
| easier to just stick with the layout you know vs trying to learn
| to type with one hand in a new layout.
|
| The nice part is that I can still type pretty quickly one-handed
| (maybe 50 wpm? Haven't measured in a while) and it's convenient
| sometimes.
| Shlongkikong wrote:
| I broke a meta carpal on my left hand several months ago and
| dealt with a similar issue. I ended up making a little python
| script that would use whisper to record with a button press, did
| some small corrections and then saved it to clipboard. It was
| very helpful. I did end up needing my regular clipboard as well,
| so I just had it save and paste with a slightly different
| shortcut sequence.
| kldg wrote:
| I severely burned most of dominant hand about a decade ago in a
| grease fire. One-handing the whole keyboard was fine enough
| (70-100wpm to 15-20wpm) that I didn't bother looking for a better
| solution, but I was able to use the injured hand enough to press
| modifier keys as needed. Unless they plan on working while
| recovering, I'd try out not making any explicit modifications.
| Good excuse to catch up on movie-watching.
| toss1 wrote:
| The best solution for me was to type with the left hand and
| switch from a mouse to a Logitech MX Ergo thumb-trackball -- the
| key advantage is it can sit inside the sling and instantly give
| me full functionality.
|
| My use case was shoulder surgery that kept my dominant right hand
| in a sling for two+ months, but I could use my fingers after a
| week or so, and much of my work is CAD.
|
| It took only a few hours to completely get used to it, and I
| never went back to a mouse. While left-hand-only typing speed
| obviously went down, this was significantly mitigated by having a
| full function point-&-click device.
|
| It turns out this setup is also _really_ helpful when working in
| tight spaces where a mouse is near-impossible, such as airplanes
| or tight luncheon booths.
|
| Even typing emails and multi-page documents left-handed was
| tolerable for 10 weeks, but if it had been longer, I probably
| would have looked into a chorded one-handed keyboard solution, as
| the learning cost would have been worth it.
|
| I hope this helps, and good on you for helping your friend, and I
| hope they get well fast!
| zackify wrote:
| I would use wispr flow or these other whisper voice to text tools
| that use ai to be even better
| Findecanor wrote:
| There is Edgar Matias's "Half Keyboard" layout, where the right
| hand's keys of a regular keyboard are mirrored on the left hand
| when holding a modifier key with your thumb. The idea is that if
| you have learned touch-typing then muscle memory for the right
| hand should be available also on the left.
|
| Matias wrote an article [1] about it and then made it into a
| commercial product [2], but the concept should be possible on any
| programmable keyboard. Perhaps it would be possible with a
| AutoHotkey (MS-Windows) or Karabiner (MacOS) script otherwise.
|
| There is a large scene for more-or-less DIY "ergonomic"
| mechanical programmable keyboards with various different physical
| layouts, but common themes are 1) that they are split in a pair
| of two physical keyboards and 2) that they have multiple thumb-
| keys for modifiers / Return / Space. You could build and program
| just one half of such a pair. Many years ago I programmed an
| ErgoDox with the HalfKeyboard layout, just to try it out, and
| that ErgoDox I had built on a budget from mostly salvaged vintage
| components.
|
| [1]: https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/One-Handed-Touch-
| Typin...
|
| [2]:https://matias.ca/halfkeyboard/
| kelnos wrote:
| ~25 years ago I injured my right (dominant) hand and wasn't able
| to type with it for about 2.5 months. I figured the time was
| short enough that I would just use a regular keyboard, one
| handed, and live with the slowdown.
|
| It was annoying, certainly, and while I did get faster typing
| only with my left hand, I of course never got close to full
| speed. But it was fine, I survived, and I don't think it would
| have been worth spending the money, as well as the time to learn
| a new keyboard setup.
|
| Remember that a one-handed keyboard (or some other arrangement)
| isn't going to bring you back up to full speed immediately. It's
| probably going to take a few weeks to learn, and you might not
| even get back up to full speed at all.
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