# 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")
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### Author:  [@Ulf\_the\_Unwashed](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ulf_the_Unwashed)
#### Post date: [April 28, 2011, 2:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrities-whose-names-you-can-type-using-one-hand-on-qwerty-board/579826/21 "2011-04-28T02:00:21Z")
Jimmy Polk.
He USed to be president.
And went to the school of hard Knox.
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### Author:  [@Annie-Xmas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Annie-Xmas)
#### Post date: [April 28, 2011, 4:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrities-whose-names-you-can-type-using-one-hand-on-qwerty-board/579826/22 "2011-04-28T16:48:12Z")
Jimmy Carter is a “balanced” name–first name right-handed, seond left-handed.
Who else?
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### Author:  [@Tom\_Scud](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tom_Scud)
#### Post date: [April 28, 2011, 4:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrities-whose-names-you-can-type-using-one-hand-on-qwerty-board/579826/23 "2011-04-28T16:51:47Z")
> [@Annie-Xmas](#):
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> Jimmy Carter is a “balanced” name–first name right-handed, seond left-handed.
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> Who elsr?
John Carter (warlord of Mars) comes to mind.
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### Author:  [@Annie-Xmas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Annie-Xmas)
#### Post date: [April 29, 2011, 1:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrities-whose-names-you-can-type-using-one-hand-on-qwerty-board/579826/24 "2011-04-29T13:16:25Z")
Another right handed one is Yoko Ono.
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### Author:  [@BrotherCadfael](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrotherCadfael)
#### Post date: [April 29, 2011, 2:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrities-whose-names-you-can-type-using-one-hand-on-qwerty-board/579826/25 "2011-04-29T14:50:42Z")
Shouldn’t this thread be entitled “P0rn stars whose names can be typed with one hand?”
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### Author:  [@soulmurk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/soulmurk)
#### Post date: [April 29, 2011, 3:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrities-whose-names-you-can-type-using-one-hand-on-qwerty-board/579826/26 "2011-04-29T15:28:26Z")
All Left:
Ace Stewart
Brett Favre
Bart Starr
All Right:
John Mill
John Phillip
John Yoo
Jun Li
Mo Li
Balanced:
Brett Hull
John Cage
John Edwards
Jon Stewart
John Stewart
John Waters
Jimmy Stewart
Philip Bester
Stewart Jump
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### Author:  [@Annie-Xmas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Annie-Xmas)
#### Post date: [April 29, 2011, 4:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrities-whose-names-you-can-type-using-one-hand-on-qwerty-board/579826/27 "2011-04-29T16:40:17Z")
CNN Pentagon correspondent [Barbara Starr](http://us.cnn.com/CNN/anchors_reporters/starr.barbara.html) is a left-handed one.
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### Author:  [@BigT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BigT)
#### Post date: [May 2, 2011, 10:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrities-whose-names-you-can-type-using-one-hand-on-qwerty-board/579826/28 "2011-05-02T10:38:44Z")
> [@notfrommensa](#):
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> What about the “Y” key? And how did “Z” key jump all the way over to the right side?
He must be using a [QWERTZ](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/QWERTZ) keyboard. The Z and Y are swapped. Annoying little bugger in that there are several versions.
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### Author:  [@Annie-Xmas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Annie-Xmas)
#### Post date: [May 2, 2011, 7:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrities-whose-names-you-can-type-using-one-hand-on-qwerty-board/579826/29 "2011-05-02T19:13:47Z")
Joan’s younger sister Mimi Baez is a balanced, if short, one.
Considering the lengths of their names, both Andrew Lloyd Webber and brother Julian Loyd LWebber are remarkably balanced.
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