How to type using only one hand: keyboard mirroring

Hello

Today is a bit special because I’m writing with a mirror keyboard layout. I use only half my keyboard to type all characters. To make things harder, the layout is qwerty while I use azerty usually (I’m used to qwerty but it doesn’t help).

Here, “caps lock” is a modifier key that must be pressed to obtain characters of the other side. As a mirror, one will find ‘p’ instead of ‘q’ or ‘h’ instead of ‘g’ while pressing caps lock.

It’s even possible to type backspace to delete characters or to achieve a newline. All the punctuation isn’t available throught this, only ‘.<|¦>’",'.

While I type this I get a bit faster and it become more and more easier. It’s definitely worth if you can’t use hands two.

This a been made possible by Randall Munroe. To enable it just download the file Here and type

xkbcomp mirrorlayout.kbd $DISPLAY

backspace is use with tilde and return with space, using the modifier of course.

I’ve spent approximately 15 minutes writing this, but the time spent hasn’t been linear, it’s much more fluent now !

[Mirrorboard: A one-handed keyboard layout for the lazy by Randall Munroe] (https://blog.xkcd.com/2007/08/14/mirrorboard-a-one-handed-keyboard-layout-for-the-lazy/)