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What Is the Sound of One Hand Typing?

A list of 153 words by reesetee.

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Words you can type with one hand--if you learned how to type formally. Hunt-and-peck method doesn't count. ;-) I'm keeping it to five or more letters to avoid an excessively lengthy list.

Also see mollusque's Typewriter Words for more keyboard fun.

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  • hernesheir bearded bastard, seeded breads, vervet, seed treats (for pet birds and bunnies), graft, retreaded, sewer rat, wafers, fazed, waders, fewer tasters tested Easter seed wafers, seesawed, resteers, defecated, reverted, we retreated weeds reseeded, weeds are free, rearrested, red crest, redbreast Jun 26, 2010

  • reesetee Thanks! I believe that when I began this list I was trying to avoid "-ed" and "re-" because they seemed too easy. But I've given up on that foolishness. ;-) Jun 26, 2010

  • hernesheir readdresses, retarded, restarted, deferred, regreased, regressed, retested, detested, exceeded, recreased, decreased, defaced, weedeater, redfaced for starters. Jun 26, 2010

  • reesetee Ooh! Good one! Thanks, possible! Jun 26, 2010

  • PossibleUnderscore abracadabra!! Jun 26, 2010

  • mollusque Go for the plural! Jun 14, 2010

  • reesetee Great one--thanks, leirion! Jun 13, 2010

  • leirion I propose stargazer Jun 13, 2010

  • reesetee Hi foglifter (nifty name!)--I would feel just fine about it. Thanks! Jun 11, 2010

  • foglifter How would you feel about hoi polloi? Jun 9, 2010

  • reesetee Good one, mollusque! Possible, my opposite thumb does the same thing: hovering just above the space bar, just in case it can be useful. Nov 30, 2009

  • PossibleUnderscore What a terrific list!
    I find that when I type a particularly long word, my opposite hand does the next space: a queer balancing act. Nov 26, 2009

  • mollusque How about detartrated? Nov 26, 2009

  • reesetee Done, thanks! Obviously this is an ongoing list. :-) Sep 23, 2008

  • mollusque Receded and crested. Sep 22, 2008

  • reesetee Done, jdorner. Thanks for the suggestions! Apr 21, 2008

  • jdorner reserve and reserves are some more left-handed words to add to your list Apr 19, 2008

  • reesetee You say that as though it's a problem. ;-> Apr 8, 2008

  • mollusque Quail dove, orangequit! I think I'll just file them on my existing lists. Otherwise I'd need lists for panvocalic dinosaurs, beetles, worms... Apr 8, 2008

  • reesetee I bow to your panvocalic prowess. Go on and make that list, mollusque. You know you want to. ;-) Apr 7, 2008

  • mollusque And might I suggest a panvocalic bird wird list as well? (Mandt's guillemot, house martin, Archibuteo, guineafowl, alpine chough, fork-tailed gull....)
    Apr 7, 2008

  • reesetee Uh oh. Mollusque, do you know what you're doing? You're actually suggesting another bird list! ;-) Apr 7, 2008

  • mollusque Reesetee, your list was the inspiration for my own, but I broadened it to include other kinds of typewriter words.

    By the way, how about great crested grebes for a left-handed bird phrase? Apr 6, 2008

  • reesetee Thanks, pterodactyl! Bilby, that's how I came up with the idea for this list--my own screen name. However, there is nothing you can do to make me add "reesetee craves bad rat sewage." Nothing at all--common as it may be.

    *blecch* Apr 5, 2008

  • bilby He was probably too modest to add reesetee to this list. Or common expressions such as reesetee craves bad rat sewage. Apr 5, 2008

  • pterodactyl Wow -- that's quite a list. I'm especially impressed by "reverberate". Apr 5, 2008

  • reesetee Oh, you young'uns.... Jun 15, 2007

  • uselessness What's a typewriter? Jun 15, 2007

  • reesetee True, jennarenn--but I was surprised that I couldn't wring more out of the I, O, and U on the right! Jun 15, 2007

  • jennarenn The left hand has the good vowels, as well as t, r, and s. Jun 14, 2007

  • reesetee Thanks to you both. Every now & then I find another word for this list--mostly by accident. Oddly, there seem to be more "left-handed" words than "right-handed." Or maybe that's just my left-handed bias.

    Oh, I think keyboards make quite a bit of noise, slumry (though not as much as typewriters once did). Just sit in a cubicle farm for a while on a busy day. ;-) Jun 14, 2007

  • palooka I agree - amazing idea for a list. Jun 14, 2007

  • slumry This is a great list. How did you gather these words?

    I can only wonder, though, about the puzzlement of the Very Young over the concept of the sound of typing. Sound? barely. Jun 14, 2007