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Offline Matias

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Re: The narrowest useful space bar?
« Reply #50 on: Thu, 05 December 2013, 11:41:30 »
In our testing, if you're only using one thumb for the Spacebar, then 2.5x is enough, starting at the same position as the home-row key for your index finger.


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Re: The narrowest useful space bar?
« Reply #51 on: Thu, 05 December 2013, 13:47:26 »
In our testing, if you're only using one thumb for the Spacebar, then 2.5x is enough, starting at the same position as the home-row key for your index finger.

If you made a split space bar, Matias..
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Re: The narrowest useful space bar?
« Reply #52 on: Thu, 05 December 2013, 14:42:28 »
In our testing, if you're only using one thumb for the Spacebar, then 2.5x is enough, starting at the same position as the home-row key for your index finger.

If you made a split space bar, Matias..


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Re: The narrowest useful space bar?
« Reply #53 on: Thu, 05 December 2013, 14:43:37 »
In our testing, if you're only using one thumb for the Spacebar, then 2.5x is enough, starting at the same position as the home-row key for your index finger.

If you made a split space bar, Matias..


We made a split spacebar BEFORE they were cool...


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Re: The narrowest useful space bar?
« Reply #54 on: Thu, 05 December 2013, 16:00:42 »
In our testing, if you're only using one thumb for the Spacebar, then 2.5x is enough, starting at the same position as the home-row key for your index finger.

If you made a split space bar, Matias..


We made a split spacebar BEFORE they were cool...


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I only see one spacebar!  ;D
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Re: The narrowest useful space bar?
« Reply #55 on: Thu, 05 December 2013, 17:29:53 »
In our testing, if you're only using one thumb for the Spacebar, then 2.5x is enough, starting at the same position as the home-row key for your index finger.

If you made a split space bar, Matias..


We made a split spacebar BEFORE they were cool...


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The latter photo...  :o One would look like they were some sort of a cyborg back in those days with wearable technology like that.
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Re: The narrowest useful space bar?
« Reply #56 on: Fri, 06 December 2013, 03:45:20 »
In our testing, if you're only using one thumb for the Spacebar, then 2.5x is enough, starting at the same position as the home-row key for your index finger.

If you made a split space bar, Matias..


We made a split spacebar BEFORE they were cool...


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Re: The narrowest useful space bar?
« Reply #57 on: Fri, 06 December 2013, 09:37:43 »
In our testing, if you're only using one thumb for the Spacebar, then 2.5x is enough, starting at the same position as the home-row key for your index finger.

If you made a split space bar, Matias..


We made a split spacebar BEFORE they were cool...


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Holy what?? a Palm Vx? :o They were like the bomb in circa 2004 or so. I used to have a Palm m505 (but now it is dead).
The latter photo...  :o One would look like they were some sort of a cyborg back in those days with wearable technology like that.


Big wrist watches were all the rage back then...  :)


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Re: The narrowest useful space bar?
« Reply #58 on: Sat, 07 December 2013, 09:05:12 »
In our testing, if you're only using one thumb for the Spacebar, then 2.5x is enough, starting at the same position as the home-row key for your index finger.

If you made a split space bar, Matias..


We made a split spacebar BEFORE they were cool...


Show Image


Show Image

Holy what?? a Palm Vx? :o They were like the bomb in circa 2004 or so. I used to have a Palm m505 (but now it is dead).
The latter photo...  :o One would look like they were some sort of a cyborg back in those days with wearable technology like that.


Big wrist watches were all the rage back then...  :)
Most likely thanks to the likes of "James Bond movies".  :)) I can't cast my memories back that far but I do remember wearable big gadgets were at one stage so popular that I think the media made a huge deal out of it.

Those days were probably also the very cool times, one probably would get a few "head turners" to see what is with this person with all these gadgets hanging on their body. These days hardly much people take that much consideration I don't think if one were to be caught wearing something like that and walking down the streets.
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Re: The narrowest useful space bar?
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