# Celebrities whose names you can type using one hand on QWERTY board
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrities-whose-names-you-can-type-using-one-hand-on-qwerty-board/579826
**Category:** The Game Room
**Created:** [April 26, 2011, 9:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrities-whose-names-you-can-type-using-one-hand-on-qwerty-board/579826 "2011-04-26T21:52:00Z")
**Posts on this page:** 20
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### Author:  [@drastic\_quench](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/drastic_quench)
#### Post date: [April 26, 2011, 9:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrities-whose-names-you-can-type-using-one-hand-on-qwerty-board/579826/1 "2011-04-26T21:52:00Z")
Sidestepping the issue of why you’re only using one hand, on a standard QWERTY board and without letting one hand stray onto the other’s territory (example: right hand typing E) what names can you spell out. Bonus points for long names.
Fred Savage
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### Author:  [@Tom\_Scud](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tom_Scud)
#### Post date: [April 26, 2011, 10:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrities-whose-names-you-can-type-using-one-hand-on-qwerty-board/579826/2 "2011-04-26T22:36:23Z")
Pink
Also,
Pliny
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### Author:  [@Bosstone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bosstone)
#### Post date: [April 26, 2011, 10:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrities-whose-names-you-can-type-using-one-hand-on-qwerty-board/579826/3 "2011-04-26T22:50:38Z")
Gaga
Steve Reeves
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### Author:  [@Jas09](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jas09)
#### Post date: [April 26, 2011, 11:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrities-whose-names-you-can-type-using-one-hand-on-qwerty-board/579826/4 "2011-04-26T23:01:34Z")
Sade? Maybe the accent disqualifies… certainly not long anyways.
Dave Carter
If you wanna count fictional characters, Edward Ferrars is pretty long. I guess Edward V would count too.
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### Author:  [@42fish](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/42fish)
#### Post date: [April 27, 2011, 12:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrities-whose-names-you-can-type-using-one-hand-on-qwerty-board/579826/5 "2011-04-27T12:45:42Z")
Erte (although, as with Sade, the accented e may disqualify it)
Xerxes
Ted Wass (actor from ‘Soap’)
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### Author:  [@Tom\_Scud](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tom_Scud)
#### Post date: [April 27, 2011, 1:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrities-whose-names-you-can-type-using-one-hand-on-qwerty-board/579826/6 "2011-04-27T13:44:39Z")
Ed Wasser (who played Morden on Babylon 5).
And a right-hand name:
[John Jolly](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Jolly)
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### Author:  [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)
#### Post date: [April 27, 2011, 3:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrities-whose-names-you-can-type-using-one-hand-on-qwerty-board/579826/7 "2011-04-27T15:07:40Z")
[Eva Dawes](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eva_Dawes)
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### Author:  [@Bosstone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bosstone)
#### Post date: [April 27, 2011, 3:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrities-whose-names-you-can-type-using-one-hand-on-qwerty-board/579826/8 "2011-04-27T15:53:09Z")
Bill Mumy
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### Author:  [@Duke](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Duke)
#### Post date: [April 27, 2011, 4:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrities-whose-names-you-can-type-using-one-hand-on-qwerty-board/579826/9 "2011-04-27T16:08:31Z")
YEAH!
Another right handed one: Lil Jon.
OKAY!
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### Author:  [@Ponch8](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ponch8)
#### Post date: [April 27, 2011, 4:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrities-whose-names-you-can-type-using-one-hand-on-qwerty-board/579826/10 "2011-04-27T16:12:05Z")
> [@Bosstone](#):
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> Bill Mumy
The B is a left-handed letter.
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### Author:  [@Skammer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skammer)
#### Post date: [April 27, 2011, 4:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrities-whose-names-you-can-type-using-one-hand-on-qwerty-board/579826/11 "2011-04-27T16:20:06Z")
Dave Stewart (the baseball player)
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### Author:  [@Tom\_Scud](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tom_Scud)
#### Post date: [April 27, 2011, 4:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrities-whose-names-you-can-type-using-one-hand-on-qwerty-board/579826/12 "2011-04-27T16:23:56Z")
Barbara Stewart (of whom there are two listed in Wikipedia, an anti-immigration New Zealand politician and a [Kazoo virtuoso](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barbara_Stewart_(composer)))
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### Author:  [@Kent\_Clark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kent_Clark)
#### Post date: [April 27, 2011, 4:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrities-whose-names-you-can-type-using-one-hand-on-qwerty-board/579826/13 "2011-04-27T16:36:56Z")
Kunilou
and Cher
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### Author:  [@Bosstone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bosstone)
#### Post date: [April 27, 2011, 4:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrities-whose-names-you-can-type-using-one-hand-on-qwerty-board/579826/14 "2011-04-27T16:38:02Z")
> [@Ponch8](#):
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> The B is a left-handed letter.
Meh, close enough. I never liked home row typing anyway.
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### Author:  [@notfrommensa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/notfrommensa)
#### Post date: [April 27, 2011, 4:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrities-whose-names-you-can-type-using-one-hand-on-qwerty-board/579826/15 "2011-04-27T16:59:27Z")
> [@kunilou](#):
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> Cher
CHER? :dubious:
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### Author:  [@42fish](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/42fish)
#### Post date: [April 27, 2011, 5:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrities-whose-names-you-can-type-using-one-hand-on-qwerty-board/579826/16 "2011-04-27T17:23:20Z")
Treebeard (well, he was a celeb in Middle Earth)
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### Author:  [@Annie-Xmas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Annie-Xmas)
#### Post date: [April 27, 2011, 6:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrities-whose-names-you-can-type-using-one-hand-on-qwerty-board/579826/17 "2011-04-27T18:04:44Z")
According to [this](http://names.whitepages.com/honolulu/philip) cite, there are six people in this country named Honolulu Philip.
I wish one of them were a celebrity.
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### Author:  [@Kent\_Clark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kent_Clark)
#### Post date: [April 27, 2011, 9:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrities-whose-names-you-can-type-using-one-hand-on-qwerty-board/579826/18 "2011-04-27T21:56:08Z")
> [@notfrommensa](#):
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> CHER? :dubious:
If you’re as dominant left-handed as I am, you have a tendency to stretch the left side of the keyboard to include the u, h, z and n keys.
I sense that some might disagree.
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### Author:  [@drastic\_quench](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/drastic_quench)
#### Post date: [April 27, 2011, 11:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrities-whose-names-you-can-type-using-one-hand-on-qwerty-board/579826/19 "2011-04-27T23:01:00Z")
> [@kunilou](#):
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> If you’re as dominant left-handed as I am, you have a tendency to stretch the left side of the keyboard to include the u, h, z and n keys.
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> I sense that some might disagree.
Yeah. I was thinking of the traditional home row hand position where tgb and yhn are the left/right boundaries.
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### Author:  [@notfrommensa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/notfrommensa)
#### Post date: [April 27, 2011, 11:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrities-whose-names-you-can-type-using-one-hand-on-qwerty-board/579826/20 "2011-04-27T23:06:51Z")
> [@kunilou](#):
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> If you’re as dominant left-handed as I am, you have a tendency to stretch the left side of the keyboard to include the u, h, z and n keys.
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> I sense that some might disagree.
What about the “Y” key? And how did “Z” key jump all the way over to the right side?
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