symmetry on the QWERTY
I have to mentally break down words according to the letters’ positions on a standard QWERTY keyboard. I prefer words that have a symmetry to them: the word ‘the’ has one letter from each row. On the other hand, the word ‘example’ is so frustrating — the last letter breaks the top row/middle row/bottom row x 2 symmetry!
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‘Example’ goes 1 3 2 3 1 2 1, with the last number 1 and not 3 on a standard qwerty keyboard, doesn’t it?
OMG…I do this too!
the has two letters from the top row…and one from the middle…it doesn’t have one from each row…
that’s what i was thinking too. what kind of qwerty keyboard is the author using? lol
Heh, yeah, my bad on the ‘the’ comment. I should have stuck with ‘cat’.
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How is it possible that you have a neurosis associated with QWERTY keyboard word symmetry, and yet you never took the time to figure out whether or not “the” was symmetric?
I did something similar for years and years–I broke it down between my left and my right hands. I wanted each to type the same amount of letters!
I like typing the word point; it’s like rolling your fingers.
point point point.
The ‘t’ ruins it, really.
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‘Example’ is not symmetric, at least not in the way you stated. it goes 1 3 2 3 12 3. The last two letters break the top/bottom/middle symmetry, but that hardly counts. (did I mention I have a neurosis for fixing people’s mistakes on the internet? I get really bothered when there’s an error on a site and no “contact me” link and no “edit me” link.)
I do the same thing, though many different patterns are pleasing to me, not just ones that have a symmetry. Example (since you love that word): Congratulations is 7-5-3 (top to bottom), decreasing by two each row down. Typewriter and puppeteer are both all on the top line, which is also pleasing.