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What is the longest word that can be typed with the left hand only?

Chet wrote in post #19524708
Lol, he countered with duotrigintillion.

That's raising the bar for sure. I never heard of it.

icopus wrote in post #19524764
What is the longest word that can be typed with the left hand only?

Afterwards?

icopus wrote in post #19524764
What is the longest word that can be typed with the left hand only?

Assuming you never leave the left hand home keys? Badgers is all left handed.

Reverberated? (12 letters)

OhLook wrote in post #19525217
Reverberated? (12 letters)

I was referring to 'stewardesses', at 12 letters, according to one source.

But yours works too!

So, I asked chatGPT. It gave me;

Stewardesses (12 letters)
Sweaterdresses (13 letters)
Aftercataracts (14 letters)
Watercresses (12 letters)

I've never heard words 2 and 3?

icopus wrote in post #19525331
I've never heard words 2 and 3?

Me neither. The double S in three of your four would be a good start in finding words. I got "reverberated" by starting with "re-" and fishing around for what might go with it.

Aftercataract's is a medical condition where the eye becomes cloudy post-op where the cataract was removed.

I know what a sweaterdress is, too. It's exactly what it sounds like.

I would have thought it'd be two words: sweater dress. What's next, poloshirt, baseballcap, cargopants?

Topcoat? Just another example of what our ancestors came up with.

I just realized that Texas is typed all with the left hand.

Sure, topcoat is established now, like overcoat and necktie and nightgown––but those are shorter. Sweaterdress is a bigger mouthful and a bigger "eyefull" for the brain to take in. In print, it'll often have to be divided at the right margin, creating a pause in a reader's processing.

gjl711 wrote in post #19526008
I just realized that Texas is typed all with the left hand.

Sample L-hand sentence: "We were wed at 123 West Texas Street, dear!"

EDIT: Scratch "dear." The comma is on the wrong side of the keyboard.

NEW ITEMS––
Fred saved Sara a better seat!
Teresa arrested Wade at a garage as Vera reassessed a card reader!
Bess saw Wes at a free Easter feast!
A red deer rested at a straw bed!

I can type any word using my left hand only. My typing teacher used to hold my head to the left or the right, but with really good peripheral vision, I could see all the keys. I hated manual typewriters, would make the veins and tendons in my hand feel all wonky. So I'm pretty much a few finger typer. Maybe 3 fingers on left hand, one finger on right. I use my right thumb for the spacebar, that's a win.

Chet wrote in post #19526045
I can type any word using my left hand only. My typing teacher used to hold my head to the left or the right, but with really good peripheral vision, I could see all the keys. I hated manual typewriters, would make the veins and tendons in my hand feel all wonky. So I'm pretty much a few finger typer. Maybe 3 fingers on left hand, one finger on right. I use my right thumb for the spacebar, that's a win.

I only used a manual typewriter in 7th grade. By 8th grade we had the "new" IBM selectrics(?). Mine was blue. It took me awhile to get used too. I tried a manual typewriter a friend has a few months ago. People in the old days must have had extremely strong fingers.