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I'm trying to understand why this isn't a thing already. It seems there would be a market for it; when you consider all the different keyboards shapes and sizes

• victorbjorklund 11mo ago
  You can just buy a split keyboard and put all the keys on layers on one side.
• Symbiote 11mo ago
  A UK company had produced them for decades, which probably serves most injured non-geek users. https://www.maltron.com/store/p19/Maltron_Single_Hand_Keyboards_-_US_English.html https://www.maltron.com/store/p19/Maltron_Single_Hand_Keyboa...
  • ginko 11mo ago
    That's actually quite a reasonable price for such a specialized device.
• jimlikeslimes 11mo ago
  Check out chorded keyboards. They've been a thing for a very long time. At least since early 00s or 90s when I saw them first. They are held one handed have 5 keys and you get different letters by chording multiple keys together.
  • clort 11mo ago
    first consumer device I ever saw was the Microwriter, back in the 1980's .. but court stenographers have been using chorded keyboards for a century or more - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microwriter https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microwriter - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stenotype https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stenotype
    • exasperaited 11mo ago
      Court stenography keyboards were not originally spelling out letters, though; they worked in shorthand symbols. I guess they can autoexpand that now. Microwriter devices produced ASCII directly.
  • cons0le 11mo ago
    CharaChorder beats all. I can type faster than I can talk
• exasperaited 11mo ago
  There's Maltron, Microwriter (who pretty much invented the contemporary chording ASCII computer keyboard) and its weird successors like Twiddler and Charachorder. But the fundamental problem with one-handed keyboards is that as soon as you only have one hand, you step into specialisation. People's hands and one-hand abilities are actually quite variable. People who have never had two hands have different hand agility to people who lose a hand in adulthood, for example. Two-handed keyboards and two-handed typing masks so much of this variability, because you can be a fast and efficient typist even with your hands straying across the keyboard and using only two or three fingers on each hand (say, two on non-dominant hand, two and thumb on dominant). One-handed keyboards, by contrast, need to be more optimised for individual one-handed typists when any economy of scale is already difficult to achieve.