From cube-lovers-errors@mc.lcs.mit.edu Wed Apr 7 18:00:36 1999 Return-Path: Received: from sun28.aic.nrl.navy.mil (sun28.aic.nrl.navy.mil [132.250.84.38]) by mc.lcs.mit.edu (8.9.1a/8.9.1-mod) with SMTP id SAA26538 for ; Wed, 7 Apr 1999 18:00:36 -0400 (EDT) Precedence: bulk Errors-To: cube-lovers-errors@mc.lcs.mit.edu Date: Mon, 5 Apr 1999 00:49:14 -0400 (EDT) From: der Mouse Message-Id: <199904050449.AAA08526@Twig.Rodents.Montreal.QC.CA> To: cube-lovers@ai.mit.edu Subject: Re: Keyboard cube [WAS Re: Wrist pains] > [Assume that the person is using a standard American QWERTY keyboard; > remap if necessary.] Gotcha. And your idea seems sound. But... > Extension D: Use the arrow keys to rotate the entire cube. Arrow keys are sufficiently nonstandard I would very much prefer something else - say, a shifted slice move to rotate the whole cube. (Under some reasonable circumstances it can be hard to even tell what you'll see for "the arrow keys", if they even exist.) In passing, > Extension C: Add another grid for the right side of the cube: > r t y > f g h > v b n I'd probably prefer u i o j k l m , . I might even argue in favor of w e r / s d f / x c v for the other set, simply because they're the home keys for the three principal fingers of the left hand. Other than that, it sounds like an eminently reasonable approach. der Mouse mouse@rodents.montreal.qc.ca 7D C8 61 52 5D E7 2D 39 4E F1 31 3E E8 B3 27 4B