What's your longest keyboard hand span?

[Oeditpus Rex]

I can press the left 'ctrl' key and the right 'alt' key at the same time. :)

[mainegreen]

1. q to ]

[Xipe Totec]

16. Me too

But I cant press them without mushing the keys in between.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

2. An octave and a third, if I stretch.

[Oeditpus Rex]

4. Wrong keyboard

:spank:



If I remember correctly, I could go from middle C to the E above the next higher C. :)

[Dinger]

67. 10 Keys On A Piano, But I Can't Hit Them As A Chord

I once read that Van Cliburn could span 12 keys, and play them!

[ironflange]

72. I had a piano teacher who could do a twelfth easily

He like to show off too, things like doing rapid octaves with second and fifth fingers. Sheesh.

[TZ]

3. You got big hands...

I have tiny hands..lets say my span is considerably less than that.

[jeff30997]

8. You mean...

From Q to R ? :)

[TZ]

10. Just about...

:)

[LeftyFingerPop]

28. moved, sorry. n/t

[DarkTirade]

5. Usually an octave and one extra note.

Wait... you mean computer keyboard? :P

On mine I can't quite reach from left ctrl to right alt, but I can hit the Windows key next to it and the right alt.

[BrotherBuzz]

6. What's the 'ctrl' key?

I can span from a lowercase J to an uppercase N on a linotype keyboard

[jeff30997]

11. The CTRL key means...

That with this key you can open the Crazy Totally Ruling Lounge door.

Now hit the TAB key and you will get a soft-drink.:)

[BrotherBuzz]

14. That's totally cool!

Now, just where is the CTLR key? :shrug:

[jeff30997]

21. In the mail box of course.

(Are you serious? If it's the case then reply to me and I'll tell you.)

[BrotherBuzz]

25. I really don't know.

I know it's one of these three keys; 'Control', 'Option', or 'Apple', but I don't know which one. :shrug: I'm serious.

On closer inspection, I see the 'Apple' key is the only one that is found left and right of the space bar so it must be the CTRL key. What does CTRL stand for?

[jeff30997]

30. Ctrl stands for Control.

On a PC keyboard it's the last key on the bottom left.

[Oeditpus Rex]

12. Dude, you were a Linotype operator?

I SAID, YOU WERE A LINOTYPE OPERATOR?



:D

[BrotherBuzz]

19. Linotype repairman

You break, I fix it. I was lonely before they even invented the Maytag™ repairman.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

24. ETAOINSHRDLU.

[jeff30997]

31. Gesundheit!

:P

[Greyskye]

38. Isn't that from an old SF short story

about a linotype typesetting machine that became self aware and corrected its own copy?

Hey, found a link that mentioned the story I remembered! http://hci.stanford.edu/~winograd/shrdlu/name.html

[trackfan]

61. Is that the "california job case" keyboard?

bcdeisfg?

Boys can do everything in school for girls

[BrotherBuzz]

64. Not quite the same, but the Linotype™ keyboard was logically layed out, too

[Rabrrrrrr]

7. I can press q and ]

[LostInAnomie]

9. Q to Rt. Ctrl

That's pretty far.

[Oeditpus Rex]

13. Hell, yeah

You must have some mitts on you.

[Rabrrrrrr]

15. I can do that one, too!

[nomorenomore08]

17. I can only reach a little further than that, and I have pretty big hands. Damn stubby fingers!

nt

[5LeavesLeft]

18. I can do caps lock to enter!

[yellowdogintexas]

20. a to ' but it is a real stretch. I have fairly short fingers. nt

[DS1]

22. since the lower keys aren't universal, but the main keys are

I can press q and [ all the way down at the same time.

[Oeditpus Rex]

26. Didn't think o' that

Okay, on the upper rail... 1 to = .

[jeff30997]

23. left 'ctrl' key and the right 'alt' key ?

Dude you have little baby hands compared to mine:I need 2 keyboards to stretch to my max hand span.

I swear it's true!:hide:

[greendog]

27. ~+

Both with left hand pinky on the left shift key.

[LeftyFingerPop]

29. I go from the q key, to past [, past ], and onto the enter key. n/t

[mikeytherat]

32. Left control to Right control, or Caps Lock to Return

Yeah, I gots some bass-player mitts.

mikey_the_rat

[hobbit709]

33. Left hand-A to Enter, Right hand-A to '

Obviously I'm left-handed.

[lizerdbits]

34. q[

I can't quite stretch to the ] without hitting other keys.

[TZ]

36. another big handed person

I really am q-p basically

[unpossibles]

35. left control to right shift

we're big hands people. At 6'2" I'm the little guy in my family.

[Chan790]

37. ~ to = (13 keys!)

and no I don't have large hands...I have insane manual flexibility.

[zingaro]

68. Damn. What does that mean exactly?

"Insane manual flexibility."

I think I could tie my fingers in a knot and untie them and it still wouldn't net me insane manual flexibility.

[krispos42]

39. I can depress both "1" and "-" at the same time...

without catching any other keys in between. I can touch both "1" and "=", but if I press them I'll catch others.

See?

1-

vs

1-=

1-=2

[Aristus]

40. From Ctrl to the underline-hyphen key.

B-)

[Call Me Wesley]

41. Me too.

But why is your desk there so scratched? :suhgr:

[Oeditpus Rex]

44. I used to do old-fashioned paste-up on it

X-Acto knives, y'know.



(That's my drafting table, btw.)

[Call Me Wesley]

45. You do knife games with an X-acto? You love games, ay?

So, you like drafting? Do you like movies about gladiators?

[Oeditpus Rex]

47. What a silly bunt!

[Call Me Wesley]

48. That's it.

[Oeditpus Rex]

49. Psst!

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=105x7693217

[Call Me Wesley]

51. Let's hope the best win!

And not the second ones ...



Hey, it's fun to make screen grabs of 'Monty Python in Hollywood!'

[Oeditpus Rex]

52. The wicked wolf was shot by security guards

so all was quiet in the forest again. The humble woodcutter and his wife sold the their story to Der Speigel for 40,000 Dm. NASA agreed to limit the number of nuclear tests in Granny's little house to two on Thursdays and one on Saturdays after tea.










(boom)

[Call Me Wesley]

53. It's called 'Der Spiegel.'

Where did you learn German from, Garbitsch?

[Oeditpus Rex]

54. From Australians

They also taught me there's nothing more dangerous than a wounded mosquito.

[Call Me Wesley]

57. Mynd you, møøsquitø bites Kan be pretty nasti...

That's not mine, just came with the model.

[Oeditpus Rex]

63. Well left!

Well played!

Well, well!

Well bred!



Aaughhh.

[SOteric]

42. Q - O

I can almost reach P, but I can't press it down.

[LeftyMom]

43. 13 keys

q - ]

I don't have especially big hands or long fingers, but apparently they stretch well.

[BarenakedLady]

46. q - p

I guess I have small hands.

[Deep13]

50. caps lock and enter/carriage return

[crim son]

55. Shift to shift or

on a piano, C to C and then to E. I have spider-leg hands.

[DeposeTheBoyKing]

56. Left shift key to ?/ key

[Jamastiene]

58. CTRL + N if I stretch a lot.

I have unusually small hands. My kidneys sucked growing up.

[Oeditpus Rex]

65. Yet you play guitar

:shrug:

[MorningGlow]

59. q to [

My guitar teacher used to call me "tentacles"--said I had the longest fret reach of any girl he'd ever seen. Some claim to fame, eh? :D

[trackfan]

60. I can do left control to right "arrow pointing to paper" button

which is to the right of the windows button, and left of the right control button.

[AllegroRondo]

62. Tab to ]

I have big hands.
big feet too.

[REP]

66. Shift to Shift

... on a laptop. I have small hands and a terrible reach. One of many reasons I was a horrible piano student.

[gemdem]

69. ` to Backspace...

a slight stretch (some small pain is involved), but I can do it.

[sakabatou]

70. ctrl to ctrl

[ironflange]

71. I can reach a tenth, hold down an eleventh

Oops, sorry, wrong kind of keyboard. I can easily do both shift keys, but this is a laptop so I'm not sure that's legit.

edit: sorry, joke was already used.

[Gormy Cuss]

74. I can reach a seventh, hold down an octave.

Good thing that I didn't want to be a keyboard player.

[ironflange]

76. I know a terrific pianist who has to stretch hard to reach an octave

My wife is another fabulous pianist, could've had a concert career, and she can barely reach a ninth. So, all is not lost!

[quakerboy]

73. So, I am not sure if i am doing this wrong

But I can press left ctrl and right ctrl. Microsoft multimedia wireless keyboard, I can press any 2 keys in the main section except left ctrl and backspace. Same on the HP keyboard next to it.

[Whoa_Nelly]

75. A to Return

can also reach C to next octave Don piano

[Dangerously Amused]

77. Sixty-four inches.

But I have to use both hands and two keyboards.

[pokerfan]

78. Reading these reminds me of the quadruple bucky

On a Stanford or MIT keyboard in raw mode, use of four shift keys while typing a fifth character, where the four shift keys are the control and meta keys on both sides of the keyboard. This was very difficult to do!

One accepted technique was to press the left-control and left-meta keys with your left hand, the right-control and right-meta keys with your right hand, and the fifth key with your nose.