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<blockquote data-quote="takyris" data-source="post: 3737179" data-attributes="member: 5171">Ferret, to explain it, I'd have to know what I was talking about. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile&nbsp; &nbsp; :)"&nbsp; data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /> But I'd imagined, well... I've seen ergonomic keyboards that are actually split into two pieces along the &quot;TGB -- YHN&quot; divide. If you took those two pieces, turned them upright so that the keys faced out, and then pushed them until the two pieces were back-to-back, that would kinda be what I was thinking.Umbran: Good point -- but how much of our &quot;desire to see what we're writing&quot; comes from only having one thumb, and thus having the limited range? If that blind guy can set records solving Rubik's cubes by Braille, noting that he can &quot;see&quot; all six sides of the cube at once, maybe the thumb placement would have given us something like that to work toward. It's possible (and again, this is free association more than logic at this point) that you'd end up with something like &quot;strong side&quot; and &quot;weak side&quot; cylindrical alignments, so that it's assumed that the writer was looking at one side and doing the other side by feel alone -- meaning that easier characters are written in that area.Or maybe the only real result would be that it'd be a little easier for me to hold my Xbox controller...</blockquote>

[QUOTE="takyris, post: 3737179, member: 5171"] Ferret, to explain it, I'd have to know what I was talking about. :) But I'd imagined, well... I've seen ergonomic keyboards that are actually split into two pieces along the "TGB -- YHN" divide. If you took those two pieces, turned them upright so that the keys faced out, and then pushed them until the two pieces were back-to-back, that would kinda be what I was thinking. Umbran: Good point -- but how much of our "desire to see what we're writing" comes from only having one thumb, and thus having the limited range? If that blind guy can set records solving Rubik's cubes by Braille, noting that he can "see" all six sides of the cube at once, maybe the thumb placement would have given us something like that to work toward. It's possible (and again, this is free association more than logic at this point) that you'd end up with something like "strong side" and "weak side" cylindrical alignments, so that it's assumed that the writer was looking at one side and doing the other side by feel alone -- meaning that easier characters are written in that area. Or maybe the only real result would be that it'd be a little easier for me to hold my Xbox controller... [/QUOTE]

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