Questions tagged [keyboard]
For challenges involving a keyboard or keyboard layouts, such as QWERTY and AZERTY.
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Help Me Type on My New Keyboard
Overview As most of y'all who visit chat know, I am Russian by ethnicity[citation not needed]. Recently, I switched from a keyboard that maps the letters 1-to-1 (mnemonic) to Windows' default mnemonic ...
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Distances between keys on a QWERTY keyboard
Inspired by this video by Matt Parker The distances between the letter keys of a QWERTY keyboard are somewhat standardised. The keys are square and both the horizontal and vertical spacing are 19.05mm ...
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KEYBOARD FOR MONKE!
Flavortext So...this is awkward. It seems I accidentally turned into a monkey last night after eating one too many banana sundaes. This has made many things inconvenient, especially typing. You see, ...
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Simulate my keyboard wave light!
(The word frame in the following text does not mean an actual frame, it is used as a placeholder for an undefined time unit) The task Imagine you have a keyboard layout with only letters like so: <...
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Toggle Shift Key
Objective Given an ASCII character, toggle its "shift-ness" on the standard US keyboard (ANSI-INCITS 154-1988 (R1999)), then output it. Mapping ...
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Typing, but to the left [closed]
Background You've been given a task to take notes for a meeting. You start typing on your Google Doc, but you don't have enough time during the meeting to look at your keyboard while you type. ...
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Convert between Korean two-set keyboard and qwerty keyboard
Introduction It is somewhat like DVORAK Keyboard layout , but MUCH harder. Let's talk about the Korean keyboard first. As you can see in Wikipedia, there is a Kor/Eng key to change between Korean and ...
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Walk Across a Keyboard
Given a word (or any sequence of letters) as input, you must interpolate between each letter such that each adjacent pair of letters in the result is also adjacent on a QWERTY keyboard, as if you ...
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What numbers are these?
While I was writing numbers I noticed after a while that my keyboard had the Shift key pressed and blocked and all I wrote was $%&-like characters. And even ...
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One line Keyboard
The Challenge The goal of this challenge is to determine whether a given String can be typed using only one line of a standard UK QWERTY keyboard. This is ...
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Convert text to key presses
I am a robot. I bought this keyboard because of its easy rectangular layout: ...
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232 votes
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No A, just CAPS LOCK
What happens when the CapsLock key on your keyboard doesn't have a notch in it? "This hPPENS." The goal of this program is to consistently emulate keyboard misses where each A press is replaced with ...
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The Keyboard Shift Cipher
Given the following input: An integer n where n > 0. A string s where ...
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The Drunken Typist
Background A typist comes home wfter some riugh drinkinh and realizes thag an importsnt letter still needs to be wtitten. To make sure he vets the text correct, he writes the text character bh ...
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Circular Keyboard Spiral
This is a QWERTY keyboard. Q W E R T Y U I O P A S D F G H J K L Z X C V B N M We can "spiral out" on this keyboard, starting from G. The spiral will start at ...
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