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Fred was a great guy to work with and a wonderful human being. We stopped and visited him on our honeymoon when he was still living in phoenix. How often do y

by gumby 3y ago

Fred was a great guy to work with and a wonderful human being. We stopped and visited him on our honeymoon when he was still living in phoenix. How often do you want to visit people on your honeymoon? He had the remarkable ability to simultaneously eat breakfast cereal (bowl in one hand and spoon in the other) and write code or send email. I can’t explain it; he only had two hands.

cbsmith 3y ago
Damn it. Now I want to see this. Anyone have a spare time machine?
- OkayPhysicist 3y ago
  I know some people with truly incredible one-handed typing. I remember seeing a girl I knew from highschool in a coffee shop, one hand aggressively reading a book, the other hand hammering away on a keyboard. Turned out she had found a gig being paid to write people's homework essays, and was scanning for citations while typing out the essay. Remarkable stuff.
  - cbsmith 3y ago
    Per the description, both hands were used for eating cereal.
- thsksbd 3y ago
  I also knew a girl who didnt know how two type with two hands, but was as fast as anyone with one hand. It was cool because she could use the mouse at the same time, or take notes on a piece of paper. Since then, Ive practiced one handed typing a bit and Im good enough at it for small tasks. Gets annoying with the modifier keys though.
  - maxbond 3y ago
    > Gets annoying with the modifier keys though. My keyboard supports sticky modifiers, I tap them without holding and it modifies the next key. A double tap locks it until I press it a third time. I use a Keyboard.io Model 100 but I'm sure there are software solutions and/or cheaper keyboards that will do it too. (But shout-out to Keyboard.io, I have all 3 of their keyboards and love every single one like it's a cuold.)
  - userbinator 3y ago
    I can type with one hand faster than a lot of people can do with two - ~50WPM (right) and ~45WPM (left) if I don't need to use the modifier keys; "home position" is FGHJ, thumb on spacebar, and from there it's just a matter of memorising where all the other keys are. Quite a useful skill if you need to often operate applications that rely on both mouse and keyboard input.

by gumby 3y ago

cbsmith 3y ago

Damn it. Now I want to see this. Anyone have a spare time machine?

OkayPhysicist 3y ago
I know some people with truly incredible one-handed typing. I remember seeing a girl I knew from highschool in a coffee shop, one hand aggressively reading a book, the other hand hammering away on a keyboard. Turned out she had found a gig being paid to write people's homework essays, and was scanning for citations while typing out the essay. Remarkable stuff.
- cbsmith 3y ago
  Per the description, both hands were used for eating cereal.
thsksbd 3y ago
I also knew a girl who didnt know how two type with two hands, but was as fast as anyone with one hand. It was cool because she could use the mouse at the same time, or take notes on a piece of paper. Since then, Ive practiced one handed typing a bit and Im good enough at it for small tasks. Gets annoying with the modifier keys though.
- maxbond 3y ago
  > Gets annoying with the modifier keys though. My keyboard supports sticky modifiers, I tap them without holding and it modifies the next key. A double tap locks it until I press it a third time. I use a Keyboard.io Model 100 but I'm sure there are software solutions and/or cheaper keyboards that will do it too. (But shout-out to Keyboard.io, I have all 3 of their keyboards and love every single one like it's a cuold.)
- userbinator 3y ago
  I can type with one hand faster than a lot of people can do with two - ~50WPM (right) and ~45WPM (left) if I don't need to use the modifier keys; "home position" is FGHJ, thumb on spacebar, and from there it's just a matter of memorising where all the other keys are. Quite a useful skill if you need to often operate applications that rely on both mouse and keyboard input.