Left Hand Typing Practice

How this list was compiled: 140 English words that use only the 15 left-hand keys of a QWERTY keyboard (Q W E R T, A S D F G, Z X C V B), plus 10 drill lines for single fingers and rows. Words: picked from the ENABLE word list, https://norvig.com/ngrams/enable1.txt (172,820 words, fetched 2026-09-19); every word is in that list, uses left-hand letters only and has at least one letter off the home row. Rude words were removed. Hand, row and finger for each letter: read from this site's type the alphabet list, which follows the standard touch typing chart; the layout and home keys were checked against https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/QWERTY and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Touch_typing on 2026-09-19. The F G H J position for typing with one hand is from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/One-hand_typing, read 2026-09-19. The groups are tagged from the map. The notes are short on purpose. The notes give the finger that carries half the letters or more, the same-finger jumps, the double letters, the longest roll, and the reaches to Q, Z and the bottom row; a word with none of these has no note. The drill notes were written for this page. A same-finger jump is two different letters in a row typed by one finger. A roll is three or more letters in a row that step to the neighbouring finger in one direction: inward runs from the little finger towards the index, outward the other way. The resting keys are A, S, D and F. Counts from ENABLE, on 2026-09-19: 3,404 words can be typed with the left hand alone and 451 with the right hand alone; 42 of the left-hand words stay on the home row; the longest left-hand word is sweaterdresses at 14 letters, no left-hand word has 13 letters, and 19 have 12 letters, stewardesses among them; the longest right-hand word is hypolimnion at 11 letters; 54.4 percent of the left-hand words of three or more letters hold at least one same-finger jump, and the most common jump is E to D (764 times, in 731 words), then D to E (404 times, in 394 words). Other word lists give other counts. The 10 items in the group Finger drills are letter patterns, not words, and none of them is in ENABLE. Each pattern is written out four times with spaces between, so that it types as one practice line. The statement that E, T and A are the three most frequent letters in English is from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/QWERTY, read 2026-09-19. Licence: ENABLE word list: public domain (its release statement is quoted at http://wordlist.aspell.net/scowl_v1-readme/, read 2026-09-19). The selection, the groups, the finger notes and the drill patterns are own work.