Random thought

So I just realized that my IRL first name is typed with only my right hand, and my IRL last name is typed only with the left.

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That’s got nothing to do with anything, but I found it interesting and wanted to share

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[Admiral Biscuit]

(unrelated, I only ever use the left shift, Ctrl, and Alt.)

[Lord Headcheez]

I just get excited when my full first name fits in the form. I'm known as "Christophe" on far to many things.

[Eris Dis Harmonia]

I can type with pre-1922 type writers. Still learning how on anything newer.

[Admiral Biscuit]

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I just get excited when my full first name fits in the form. I'm known as "Christophe" on far to many things.

Depending on how ponies do their names (if they have first and last, or just consider it one name), they could fill up a line on a form really quick.

I actually touched on that in one fic, where the reservation staff just guessed at first and last name and then when check-in time came, the desk clerks had to figure it out.

[Admiral Biscuit]

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I can type with pre-1922 type writers. Still learning how on anything newer.

Assuming American typewriters, it’s mostly the same. Don’t have to push as hard on the keys, and a couple of them have moved. IIRC, the apostrophe is above the 8 on the old ones, and the quotation mark is above 2. There might not be a key for 1. And if if’s a fancy typewriter, it might have a half-space key.

[Alaborn]

First names typed with one's right hand:
John
Jim
Lupin
Loki

I'm going to go with Loki.

And I remember reading that the longest word one can type with only one's left hand is stewardesses.

[Eris Dis Harmonia]

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It's the little things that will get you... or me, as the case may be.

Is Epoch a good brand? I've heard quite a bit about them, but I can't find one that's functional.

[Von Snootingham]

I had a similar realization once that still tickles me. I realized that my first, middle, and last name all have 6 letters in almost exactly the same configuration.
(1)Consonant - (2) - (3)Vowel - (4)Consonant - (5)Vowel - (6)Consonant
My last name ruins the pattern by having a vowel as the second letter instead of a consonant like the other two names.

[KMCA]

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in a away you answered your own question. If you can't find one that works it may have reliability issues.

[PresentPerfect]

I had no idea your name was Munko Werges

[Olden Bronie]

It is interesting! Also, cute pony!

[SWEETOLEBOB18]

Interesting

Interesting

L. Frank Baum was a H.S. dropout
(not that uncommon back then)
He failed at almost everything he ever did
The Wizard Of Oz is considered the
First American Fairy Tale
Since it was first printed in 1900 it has never been out of print
It is probably the best selling children's book ever written by an American.
(Tolkien & Rowling are British)
He wrote many others, most good sellers
He still went bankrupt & lost the rights to all of them.
He never lived in Kansas.
(He was living in South Dakota at that time)
He claimed he got the name OZ off a filing cabinet
The Oz movie w Judy Garland is probably the movie seen by the most Americans. (In 1950 NBC bought the TV broadcast rights & showed it every year until 2000 (when their rights expired.))

[SWEETOLEBOB18]

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The word Hawaiian is the only word in the English language that has 4 consecutive vowels. (I think it was originally Polynesian.)

Just thought you'd like to know.

[Gnarl]

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[KMCA]

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Wait people use the other ones?

[SWEETOLEBOB18]

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Hemingway was in plane wrecks.
Charles Dickens was in a train wreck.

Conclusion

You can get to be a better writer if you get in a wreck

[Sir Mediocre]

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I'm among the group that was taught to use left shift when the key being modified was reached with the right hand, and right shift vice versa.
That was in 7th grade. To this day, the technique still causes me occasional hiccups when I know it would be slightly faster to use the same hand for shift and the key on many occasions, but my muscle memory insists on telling my brain how to do its job.

Right CTRL I use only when I'm editing fields in modding tools and need to use paste a lot while using the mouse.

[bkc56]

First/Last all left hand here. Middle name messes that up a bit.

[Alaborn]

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Queuing.

Or if you're British, you can go five vowels with queueing.

[SWEETOLEBOB18]

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I'm a Baby Boomer. According to Witchy Poo (H R Puffenstuff) you Brits can also rhyme orange w door 'inge & we can't.

[Light Striker]

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It's only partially for speed, I think. It's also that chording with the same hand tends to involve more potential contortions and resultant strain on the joints and connective tissue over time. (I doubt that's true in all cases, but it sounds like it would be true on average.)

[Xander Opal]

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I have an antique Royal mechanical typewriter. Needs a bit of work to make it functional again.

[Gnarl]

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Than he's the maker of writers
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[Chicago Ted]

Alaska is the only U.S. state to be typed entirely on one row of keys.

Everything in this post, however, assumes QWERTY layout, and not, say, QWERTZ (popular in central Europe), Dvorak, Colemak, Workman. . . .

[PonyDragon]

So I just realized that my IRL first name is typed with only my right hand, and my IRL last name is typed only with the left.

Does that mean you can - in theory - type your first name and last name at the same time?

[Eris Dis Harmonia]

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How much work?

[Antimatter47]

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Naw, Klinky Asserter for sure.

[Xander Opal]

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A bunch of the keys and arms are jammed, the ribbon mechanism, carriage return, that sort of thing.

[Georg]

*Almost* here. First name, right hand. Last name, left hand *until* the last letter.

I'm old enough to have gotten my real name as a Gmail address... and smart enough to have gotten my wife and kids theirs when it became available.

[Reese]

Along with a couple of cute pony images, naturally. :)

[Trick Question]

I always suspected your name was Jokil Asdaf.