Dennis Lee Bieber <wlfr...@ix.netcom.com> on Sat, 09 Apr 2016 14:52:50 -0400 typed in comp.lang.python the following: >On Sat, 09 Apr 2016 11:44:48 -0400, Random832 <random...@fastmail.com> >declaimed the following: > >>I don't understand where this idea that alternating hands makes you >>slows you down came from in the first place... I suspect it's people who > > It's not (to my mind) the alternation that slows one down. It's the >combination of putting common letters under weak fingers and some >combinationS that require the same hand/finger to slow one down. > >aspect a is on the weakest left finger, with the s on a finger that >many people have trouble moving independently from the middle finger (hmm, >I seem to be okay moving the ring finger, but moving the middle finger >tends to drag the ring with it). p is the weakest finger of the right hand. >e&c use the same finger of the left hand, t is the strongest finger but one >is coming off the lower-row reach of middle-finger c. > >deaf is all left hand, and the de is the same finger... earth except >for the h is also all left hand, and rt are the same finger. > > I suspect for any argument for one side, a corresponding counter can be >made for the other side. There are only 5.5 vowels (the .5 is Y) in >English, so they are likely more prevalent than the 20-odd consonants when >taking singly. Yet A is on the weakest finger on the weakest (for most of >the populace) hand. IOU OTOH are in a fast three-finger roll -- and worse, >IO is fairly common (all the ***ion endings).
ASINTOER are the top eight English letters (not in any order, it is just that "A Sin To Err" is easy to remember. -- pyotr filipivich The fears of one class of men are not the measure of the rights of another. -- George Bancroft -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list