Ask HN: Any advice for single-hand typist?

9 points by stralep ↗ HN
I'm single hand (left hand) typist. I'm mostly using vim editor. Keyboard layout is QWERTY.

What are advices to speedup my typing speed?

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I had explored these during college, believing I would see an increase in productivity given keeping one hand on keyboard and one on mouse at all times.

Personally it was quite difficult to adjust and I ended up abandoning the project. But I found the keyboard well made and well laid out.

It takes a good while to get used to the frogpad like devices. If you're still interesting in the idea, there are a couple of other devices you could give a try.

http://www.handykey.com/ http://half-qwerty.com/

I don't have any experience with the half-qwerty keyboard, but the concept seemed interesting, and maybe more up your alley. However, I know of many people who swear by the Twiddler design. I can't recall if it was that same device or another that looked very similar, but a guy I met was capable of typing around 70 WPM with it.

One of my college professors used a wearable computer and thus the twiddler keyboard. It is quite interesting and it may be something I explore - thanks for reminding me!
Learn how to type with two hands. It won't take long.

(Unless you actually only have one hand, of course.)

Actually I have two hands, but functionality of second hand is quite reduced.
I think it's pretty obvious that he does only have one functional hand. Your joke is in bad taste.
It wasn't obvious to me, apologies if that was in bad taste.