What's the longest word typed with only the left hand?

great passwords for porn sites ;P

Devertebrated, sounds like what happened to the Democratic caucus when they decided to leave Joementum in his post.

That's odd, I could have sworn it was "ooooooooooooooooohbabymmmmmmmmmmmohyeahooooohUNNNNNGH!"

Um, what about "sweaterdresses"?

# perl -e 'while(<>){next unless /^[qwertasdfgzxcvb]{13,}$/;print}' < /usr/share/dict/words
aftercataract
devertebrated
redrawerredrawers
tesseradecade

But redrawerredawers is not a valid response. I like devertebrated; it sounds like something out of a zombie movie.

There are many places in the article where "there're" (or, better yet, "there are") should have been used instead of "there's".  E.g., There are 927 words with 7 letters (according to a computer search), and 497 more with 8 letters.

sweaterdresses is all left handed and14 letters long.

So there--Hah

Aw... too bad that the photo used in the article precisely depicts a right hand. 

And not to be a party pooper, but what prevents you from using all the keys with just the left hand? In fact, I wrote this comment using only my right hand since my left is holding a granola bar. 

I know, I know, that's not the point, but still...

I read the headline, giggled and clicked as fast as I could to make a left hand use only joke - and everyone had beaten me to it!  Damn you all - suck all my perverted fun out of the night, whydontcha?

;)

I guess because I'm using a different dictionary (/usr/share/dict/american) I get a different answer. The word 'extraterrestrials' is 17 letters long and beats all the previously mentioned words. Is this an "American" only word?

@Roux:

the word extraterrestrials looks good at first, but it's got "i" and "l" in it which are both right-side words

$ awk '!/[h-puy]/{print length}' word.list|sort -n|uniq -c
     30 2
    198 3
    506 4
    842 5
    999 6
    837 7
    612 8
    316 9
    116 10
     55 11
     20 12
      1 13
      1 14

I used the "yawl" word list.

So... desegregated and reverberated are sometimes disqualified because they're "using the past tense" and stewardesses not so, even though it uses the plural? That's pretty darned arbitrary. What moron made up that rule? Someone with a thing for female flight attendants?

I put my money on sweaterdresses.

 I like

egrep [qwertasdfgzxcvb]{12} /usr/share/dict/words | egrep -v [yuiophjklnm]

as the answer. (Others may be better faster or shorter, but this is the one I like)

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Extraterrestres is 15 letters. It's not english, but it is in fact a word. All left handed.

Desegregates or desegregated are both the same length as stewardesses, but I agree sweaterdresses is the longest.

Um, what about "infinity" using keys 1, 2, 3, 4 and 5 (6 is a toss up L/R key for my fingers)?  Depending on memory management, the string can be parsed as a word... or are is the caveat papirus and ink plumes?

Ridiculous. The longest word typed with the left hand is the same as the longest word typed with both hands. Just put your right hand behind your back and hunt-and-peck. Don't let the Home Row Mafia segregate your key presses! ;-)

Home Row Mafia, here. ;-)  Hah — according to my version of linux.words (which is admittedly a bit old), the longest words you can using only the left hand in Dvorak are 'opaque' and 'upkeep', and note that there are no words that can be typed using only the right hand.  Okay, maybe so I wouldn't try to force it on anyone, but I'm glad I was coaxed into learning it. :-)

How about if you did it with Dvorak ?

Look, jump, join, moon, mink - are all right hand only words.

If one programmed the function keys F1 -F4 to display a word when pressed with the left hand, then the length is determined only by the longest word ever.

Maybe I'm an idiot, but which one is the 13-letter word referred to in the article?

I'm typing this whole comment with my left hand. It isn't very efficient or quick, but it's all left-handed. :)

I'm not English speaking. Please tell me the whole post was not about the fscking dot key