Solutions for one-handed typing on a regular keyboard [closed]

If you're worried about twisting your hand, try enabling sticky keys, so you can press Shift (or Ctrl or Alt) without having to hold it.

You could also remap Caps Lock to Control so you don't have to move your hand as far.

You could also look at buying a one-handed keyboard from FrogPad or half-qwerty.

Or there is a free AutoHotKey script to emulate the half-qwerty layout. You'll have to install AutoHotKey and save the script as an .ahk file to use it.

The Wikipedia page on Chorded Keyboards might also have some other ideas.

Finally, if you can't find anything else, you could create your own custom keyboard layout. In Windows, you can do this using the Microsoft Keyboard Layout Creator (MSKLC). Chording would be possible by setting a key as a dead key.

Concerning Autohotkey script or free application, Numpad-QWERTY is the latest one. Visit jabobian or Autohotkey.

Numpad-QWERTY is completely free, and you can even customize it. You can use Numpad-QWERTY without interference between sing-hand and two-hand.

I'm the developer of the One-Hand Typing apps below. Should be just what you're looking for.

• One-Hand Keyboard (PC).

• One-Hand Keyboard (Mac).

• One-Hand Keyboard (Mac): FREE demo.

• Mirror-QWERTY (Mac): FREE

One-Hand Keyboard is the best option, as it has predictive text. Just type the one-hand keys and it will automatically figure out which word you meant. Type "tges" and it will change it to "this". Your muscle memory makes it very easy to do this.

Mirror-QWERTY is the non-predictive-text version. You hold spacebar to "mirror" the keys. So to type "this" you type [T] [G+Space] [E+Space] [S]. I find this a lot harder to do.

I've made it very easy to switch between a normal keyboard and one-hand typing. Just hit Caps-Lock to switch to one-hand mode.

I hope one of these solutions works for you! Would love to hear your feedback.