Show HN: Which hand do you type faster with? - leftright.space

Posted by ahmedkhaleel on Thursday May 29, 2025 @07:45AM
from the show-hn dept.

https://www.leftright.space/

I type really fast, 185+ wpm, but I never learned to optimize for typing properly. I use 3 fingers on my right hand and all 5 on my left, and now I can't unlearn it.

This quick test shows if your right or left hand types faster, and compares it to everyone else's results! Fun little bit of information.

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Re:Show HN: Which hand do you type faster with? - leftright.... by eimrine on Thursday May 29, 2025 @07:51AM (#44125085)

I misunderstood the goal for my first time I thought that I need to type this with left hand only then by right hand only. BTW I have a proper touchtyping so my result is:

Your hand speed balance is typical. Your right hand is 98% as fast as your left (community average: 90%)

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Re:Show HN: Which hand do you type faster with? - leftright.... by ahmedkhaleel on Thursday May 29, 2025 @07:54AM (#44125100)

wow yea that makes sense, 98% is amazingly balanced

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Re:Show HN: Which hand do you type faster with? - leftright.... by eimrine on Thursday May 29, 2025 @03:03PM (#44129123)

That's not only my result, that's Augusto Dvorak's one as well, kudos you have this option. BTW if you will add Dvorak for Programmers I try once more, this is a rare layout for kbd trainers. Just add some Perl code with a lot of numbers, or just a random symbols to really test Dvorak for Programmer.

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Re:Show HN: Which hand do you type faster with? - leftright.... by hualaka on Thursday May 29, 2025 @02:08PM (#44128613)

It would be more interesting if we could count whether the left or right hand pressed the space bar, but there is only one space bar, so this is not possible. I think alternating between both hands to press the space bar is the most balanced way.

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