Questions tagged [keyboard]
For challenges involving a keyboard or keyboard layouts, such as QWERTY and AZERTY.
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Help Me Type on My New Keyboard
Overview
As most of y'all who visit chat know, I am Russian by ethnicity[citation not needed]. Recently, I switched from a keyboard that maps the letters 1-to-1 (mnemonic) to Windows' default mnemonic ...
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Distances between keys on a QWERTY keyboard
Inspired by this video by Matt Parker
The distances between the letter keys of a QWERTY keyboard are somewhat standardised. The keys are square and both the horizontal and vertical spacing are 19.05mm ...
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KEYBOARD FOR MONKE!
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So...this is awkward. It seems I accidentally turned into a monkey last night after eating one too many banana sundaes. This has made many things inconvenient, especially typing. You see, ...
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Simulate my keyboard wave light!
(The word frame in the following text does not mean an actual frame, it is used as a placeholder for an undefined time unit)
The task
Imagine you have a keyboard layout with only letters like so:
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Toggle Shift Key
Objective
Given an ASCII character, toggle its "shift-ness" on the standard US keyboard (ANSI-INCITS 154-1988 (R1999)), then output it.
Mapping
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Typing, but to the left [closed]
Background
You've been given a task to take notes for a meeting. You start typing on your Google Doc, but you don't have enough time during the meeting to look at your keyboard while you type.
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Convert between Korean two-set keyboard and qwerty keyboard
Introduction
It is somewhat like DVORAK Keyboard layout , but MUCH harder.
Let's talk about the Korean keyboard first. As you can see in Wikipedia, there is a Kor/Eng key to change between Korean and ...
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Walk Across a Keyboard
Given a word (or any sequence of letters) as input, you must interpolate between each letter such that each adjacent pair of letters in the result is also adjacent on a QWERTY keyboard, as if you ...
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What numbers are these?
While I was writing numbers I noticed after a while that my keyboard had the Shift key pressed and blocked and all I wrote was $%&-like characters. And even ...
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One line Keyboard
The Challenge
The goal of this challenge is to determine whether a given String can be typed using only one line of a standard UK QWERTY keyboard.
This is ...
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Convert text to key presses
I am a robot. I bought this keyboard because of its easy rectangular layout:
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No A, just CAPS LOCK
What happens when the CapsLock key on your keyboard doesn't have a notch in it?
"This hPPENS."
The goal of this program is to consistently emulate keyboard misses where each A press is replaced with ...
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The Keyboard Shift Cipher
Given the following input:
An integer n where n > 0.
A string s where ...
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The Drunken Typist
Background
A typist comes home wfter some riugh drinkinh and realizes thag an importsnt letter still needs to be wtitten. To make sure he vets the text correct, he writes the text character bh ...
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Circular Keyboard Spiral
This is a QWERTY keyboard.
Q W E R T Y U I O P
A S D F G H J K L
Z X C V B N M
We can "spiral out" on this keyboard, starting from G. The spiral will start at ...
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Find the average of a word
Inspired by this chat message
Your task will be to take a word and find the average position of its letters on the keyboard as a letter.
Keyboard Layout
Since layouts vary from keyboard to keyboard,...
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Is it an Ordered Word?
(inspired by this post over on Puzzling. CAUTION: SPOILERS FOR THAT PUZZLE ARE BELOW.)
The standard telephone keypad correlates letters to numbers as follows:
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How many times should I press this?
We are all used to the old-school telephone keypad, right? For reference, here is what it looks like:
Given a String consisting only of lowercase ASCII letters and single spaces, your task is to ...
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Keyboard vs Code-Golf? [closed]
If you've come here, you probably know what code-golf is, and that's what I'm going to assume.
Story
(I guess)
Keyboards are input devices we use all the time. They existed before mice and touch ...
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Keyboard layouts challenge
The keyboard layout people commonly use is the QWERTY layout as shown below.
But there are also other keyboard layouts:
DVORAK
COLEMAK
WORKMAN
Your task
Your code will take two inputs: the name ...
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Keyboard Encryption [duplicate]
Challenge
Given a string with any characters a-z or A-Z, return an 'encrypted' string, where all characters are replaced by the character next to it (assuming a QWERTY keyboard).
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Fix my Fat Fingers
Code Golf Challenge
I have an isdue, my fingrrs are fat and I freqintly jave an isdue of ty[ing one keystrpke to the right on my kryboard.
I'm afraid the isdue is getyng worse anf worsr as time goes ...
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Blink the CAPS LOCK
Most computer keyboards feature a small integrated LED light,
indicating the current input mode, as controlled with the CAPS LOCK button.
Your task is to blink it:
Turn it on;
Wait for 0.5 (+/-0.1) ...
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KeyPad Code to Text!
Given a String and an Array as input, your task is to output the text the input String will print when typed on a typical Mobile Keypad. In a Mobile Keypad, a letter is typed by pressing a button n ...
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Shortest Konami Code
The Problem
You must write a program that, when the Konami Code is typed in during runtime, prints the string "+30 lives" and sounds a noise of your ...
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Efficient Typing on a Game Boy
Many old Game Boy games often required string input from the user. However, there was no keyboard. This was handled by presenting the user with a "keyboard screen" like so:
The 'character pointer' ...
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Virtual Keyboard Text Input
On modern game consoles and other devices without traditional keyboards, trying to input text is a nightmare. Having to type with a few buttons and a joystick on a virtual keyboard is annoying, and I ...
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Longest word using a single row of the qwerty keyboard
The three rows of the qwerty keyboard are qwertyuiop, asdfghjkl and zxcvbnm. Your task is to ...
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A loose spellchecker
John Doe used to be one of the fastest QWERTY keyboard typists in the world, but a recent head injury caused by a stampeding herd of downgoats has critically hampered his ability to type accurately. ...
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Which Row is the Key On?
Given any of the following characters (or a newline):
`1234567890-=~!@#$%^&*()_+qwertyuiop[]\QWERTYUIOP{}|asdfghjkl;'ASDFGHJKL:"zxcvbnm,./ZXCVBNM<>?
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Print the QWERTY keyboard using keys that are as close together as possible
Normally, challenges are scored in bytes, or sometimes Levenshtein distance, but for this one we're using keyboard distance -- the number of keys between the keys used to type the program (use the ...
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Parrot User’s Delay [duplicate]
A simple code golf challenge similar to an already existing, but more complex one:
Wait for user to press enter.
Wait for user to press enter again.
Print the elapsed time between the 1. and 2.
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Adjacent Letter Test
One aspect of password strength testing is runs of adjacent letters on the keyboard. In this challenge, a program must be created that returns true if a string ...
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Output the qwerty keyboard
Given a character, output (to the screen) the entire qwerty keyboard layout (with spaces and newlines) that follows the character. The examples make it clear.
Input 1
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Flaming Doorknob Keyboards!
Well, turns out Doorknob's
username on GitHub, Reddit, and other sites is
KeyboardFire. That gives me an idea...
The task
You work at KeyboardFire Inc., a company that makes special keyboards. And, ...
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Cell Phone Keyboard Typing
Cell Phone Keyboard Typing
This question was asked a while back, but was closed due to poor specs. So, I'm redoing it, with better specs. This question is related, but goes in the opposite direction.
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QWERTY keyboard string length [duplicate]
QWERTY keyboard distance (QKD) is, in short, the distance between two letters/numbers/punctuation keys on a standard QWERTY keyboard (if you don't have one around, you can check this Wikipedia picture)...
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Check all the keys of a keyboard
Write the shortest program that waits for every key of a Standard 101 key US Keyboard* to be pressed and then exits writing OK!
Every time a key is pressed the program displays on a new line the ...
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The very weird word counter
INPUT: Any string consisting exclusively of lowercase letters via function argument, command line argument, STDIN, or similar.
OUTPUT: Print or return a number that will represent the sum of the ...
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Given an input, move it along the keyboard by N characters
The Challenge:
Given any input that can be typed on a keyboard, move the text along by N chars.
Here is the QWERTY keyboard to be used. You can ignore the modifier keys (Shift, Caps, Enter, Delete ...
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Is the word typeable with keys adjacent to each other?
Before reading this I suggest reading this little puzzle: https://puzzling.stackexchange.com/questions/11408/longest-word-with-adjacent-letters-on-a-keyboard
I want you to make a program that takes ...
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Create a T9 keyboard
This question asks for a T9 dictionary matching functionality which is a very interesting problem. But T9 has another way of typing and that is typing character-by-character. You would NOT need a ...
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Make your country proud!
You are from the tiny country of Que-Wopistan. The Que-Wopistonion's are a proud people, and every Que-Wopistonian dreams of making their country proud by representing their country in the Olympics.
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Emulate the Professor's typing
Emulate the Professor's typing
Background
Unfortunately, the Professor is not able to use his keyboard properly: whenever he is meant to use the Shift key, he presses Caps Lock once before typing, and ...
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Swipe Type Converter
The next revolution in typing on laptops was released on the first of April, 2014 by SwiftKey. However, I want to be the first person to write a swiping nano clone, but, as I can't find a good swipe-...
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Create a "hacker typer" program that renders its own source code
If you are unfamiliar with hacker typer, see hackertyper.net. In short, it is a program that outputs one chunk of a code base per keystroke for comedic effect. BUT, the hackertyper.net version is far ...
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Testing Keyboards
My Problem
At my current place of employment, I single-handedly (ok dual-handedly because I'm missing no limbs) maintain approximately 700 laptops. Due to the nature and frequency of their use, I ...
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Minimal keystrokes needed to type a given text
We all know that programmers tend to be lazy. In order to maximize your free time, you decide to write a program that outputs a minimal number of keystrokes for text fed into it.
Input: Text that has ...
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DVORAK Keyboard layout
Here's an interesting challenge...
I want you to golf code that when executed will allow your input to be converted to mimic output as though you were typing on a DVORAK keyboard layout.
The aim is to ...
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