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Typewriter words

A list of 123 words by mollusque.

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Long English words that can be typed on a keyboard under various restrictions. The longest are:

QWERTY left hand only: aftercataracts, sweaterdresses, tesseradecades, and tetrastearates; right hand only: monimolimnion, phyllophyllin, johnny-jump-up; alternating hands: antiskepticism and leucocytozoans; top row of letters only: powertripper, protopottery, teetertotter, uropyoureter, middle row only: Shakalshas (plural of Shakalsha, apparently has not been used in English except as a typewriter word, but is listed in MW3).

DVORAK: left hand only: epopoeia, jipijapa, peekapoo, quiaquia; right hand only: crwth; alternating hands: photomorphogenesis.

Use the following tags to see other long typewriter words by subsets: qwerty top, qwerty middle, qwerty right, qwerty left, qwerty alternating; dvorak right, dvorak left, dvorak alternating.

Inspired by reesetee's The Sound of One Hand Typing, which has more left-handed and right-handed words.

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  • chained_bear commented on the list typewriter-words

    Awesome list, mollusque!

    April 7, 2008

  • mollusque commented on the list typewriter-words

    Thanks, c_b! I'm trying now to figure out how to find the longest words in which the letters alternate hands on the keyboard.

    By the way, what's the sound of one paw typing? Are your claws retractable?

    April 7, 2008

  • Prolagus commented on the list typewriter-words

    I guess this problem in finding Dvorak single hand long words means the Dvorak layout is a success, considered that alternating between hands was among its main aims.

    April 7, 2008

  • chained_bear commented on the list typewriter-words

    One paw typing makes the same clicky noises as two. My claws happen to be retractable, yes, and are made of adamantine. For this reason, I have to be careful about not chipping my red nail polish.

    Has anyone played fingerjig, besides me, I mean? I looked for the URL but couldn't find it--it's google-able though. It's a typing game and great fun. Wait... Maybe I first heard of it on Wordie and I just forgot.

    April 8, 2008

  • reesetee commented on the list typewriter-words

    Mollusque, this is one amazing list. If you scroll down quickly, it looks eerily like a lot of the old typing lessons I once was subjected to. :-)

    C_b, I never heard of fingerjig, but it sounds like fun. How do you play it? I mean, you know...if you're not a bear?

    April 8, 2008

  • chained_bear commented on the list typewriter-words

    Here, try this URL. It's a Flash game and, I just noticed, allows you to play in English, Italian, or another language I believe is Polish...? (I'm not a good judge of flags.)

    Edit: Mollusque, the reason I thought of this game is that it's a six-minute series of smaller games, and some of them are all words for the left hand, or all words for the right hand, or alternate, etc. They aren't very long words, usually, but they're fun.

    April 8, 2008

  • yarb commented on the list typewriter-words

    Re: longest words in which the letters alternate hands on the keyboard. There's a French footballer called Makelele - which I'm sure is nowhere near the longest but nonetheless feels orgasmic to type fast. Like a stampede!

    April 8, 2008

  • reesetee commented on the list typewriter-words

    Yarb...really? I think you may need to get away from your keyboard for a bit. ;-)

    Thanks, c_b--uh oh, it's addictive.

    April 8, 2008