Can you name the following first names that can be typed with only one hand?

created by Kicking222

Enter a name in the box below
Correctly named names will show up below
Click any empty Famed Surnames or One-Handed First Name to answer for that location
Assume regular typing on a regular keyboard- left hand is QWERTASDFGZXCV, right hand is YUIOPHJKLNM.
NOTE: As it is typed lefty by some and righty by others, *B CAN BE USED IN BOTH GROUPS OF LETTERS!*
Also try: Make a Name for Yourself

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Famed Surnames	One-Handed First Name
Carter, Hoffa, Page
Maddux, Louganis, Kinnear
Carey, Brees, Pinsky
Donne, Kerry, Lennon
Ringwald, Pitcher, Sims
Farmiga, Wang, Zvonareva
Albee, Norton, Asner
Boxer, Bush, Stanwyck
Kelly, Park, Slick
Wilder, Joel, Graham
Pound, Cornell, Koenig
Glass, Roth, Larkin

Famed Surnames	One-Handed First Name
Armisen, Astaire, Willard
Messing, Monk, Winger
Kennedy, Turner, DiBiase
Scott, Clayburgh, Biden
Garbo, Scacchi, Van Susteren
Hope, Dylan, Barker
Jobs, Coogan, Martin
Basinger, Carnes, Cattrall
Hunter, Willoughby, Madison
Redgrave, Swann, Fontanne
Thomas, Coulier, Brubeck
Harrison, Stout, Reed

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One-Handed First Names Quiz

by Kicking222

Created Aug 1, 2010 in Just For Fun
Featured Aug 12, 2010
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	JohnJF:	Aug 12th, 2010 at 21:41 GMT	21 points
	Am I the only one who uses his left hand to type the letter Y?

	gwynn1984:	Aug 12th, 2010 at 21:46 GMT	8 points
	No, JohnJF - I also use my left hand for both B and Y

	lalalala:	Aug 12th, 2010 at 21:56 GMT	7 points
	I use my left hand for Y and right hand for B, so a few of these were weird for me.

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	RonBurgundy:	Aug 12th, 2010 at 22:36 GMT	25 points
	I understand that some people may use different hands to type letters like B, but if you use your left hand for B, then Billy and Bob take two hands, and if you use your right Barbara takes two hands, so no matter what, this quiz is wrong.

	dveous:	Aug 12th, 2010 at 22:37 GMT	20 points
	i wonder if there's a geographical issue with this quiz. in school, we learned to type Y with the right hand and B with the left. (i'm in Canada)

	dje:	Aug 12th, 2010 at 22:43 GMT	18 points
	i liked the quiz, but i feel like there are better topics of trivia out there than this. cmon sporcle, i mean, this is pretty much "can you name the common first name from the list of surnames". i hope i dont get voted down for this and that people agree with me...

	soccerchic:	Aug 12th, 2010 at 23:09 GMT	25 points
	no, dveous, it's not geographical. If you are taught proper typing anywhere you use your left hand for B and your right for Y. This makes Billy and Bob erroneous answers to the quiz, but Debra and Barbara are fine.If you have to reach unnaturally far for a key, then you're doing it wrong.

	cappy:	Aug 12th, 2010 at 23:16 GMT	8 points
	Everybody's got a price for the Million Dollar Man! AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA! (five globes for ted dibiase, b/y problems notwithstanding).

	Cubby:	Aug 13th, 2010 at 00:16 GMT	-2 points
	technically all of these can be typed with the same hand without removing your fingers from the home row. So Billy and Barbara and Debra and all the rest mentioned CAN be typed one-handed. The quiz description makes no mention of standard forms for typing.

	Kinitawowi:	Aug 13th, 2010 at 00:22 GMT	1 point
	After a couple of quick and in no way scientific tests, it looks like I swap around hands for B and Y depending on where my hands happen to be at the time (if I'm typing "my", I'll lefty the Y because the right hand feels like it has a relatively long way to go). I'm very aware that I don't type "properly".

	zzz:	Aug 13th, 2010 at 00:37 GMT	-1 points
	Look, I get the point of the quiz, but couldn't all of the answers be typed with one hand? There are plenty of people who do so, even with two good hands (and I think there was even a Bond villain who did so.) And, as far as "conventional" typing (which probably died ten or fifteen years ago), goes, I'm already wrong on the first one; I type a "y" with my left index finger.

	MrGrieves:	Aug 13th, 2010 at 00:38 GMT	5 points
	I feel like I had a deprived childhood now, because nobody ever actually taught me to type. I just use whichever fingers on whichever hands feel most comfortable at the time. I think most of my Ts are right-handed, for example.

	Kicking222:	Aug 13th, 2010 at 00:46 GMT	4 points
	@Everyone: I made this quiz on a lark; the idea came to me while driving home from work, and I decided to do something about it. I'm personally very happy with it, and even if it's one of my lower-rated games, I'm proud of it. I do hope you had fun, and if you didn't, I hope you have fun with one of my other hundred-plus games, and I hope you have fun with one of the tens of thousands of other quizzes on the site. I find the "Y" thing very strange- I even asked a bunch of friends, and they all said they hit "Y" with their right hand. With that said, I do understand peoples' grievances, but my only response is: You can't please all people all the time. I do appreciate constructive criticism- after all, I'm not perfect- but I think that, for what this quiz is, it's the best that it can be (unless I removed the B and Y answers, which would eliminate a full third of the quiz).

	Kicking222:	Aug 13th, 2010 at 00:48 GMT	2 points
	And also, thanks to the Sporcle demigod, both for believing in this quiz enough to publish it, and for believing in me as a quiz maker in general. Even if not all of my quizzes are the most well-regarded, I still love contributing to this site.

	MeanMF:	Aug 13th, 2010 at 01:36 GMT	20 points
	I have one of those split ergonomic keyboards. Y is on the right side and B is on the left. Just sayin'.

	anthraxjohnson:	Aug 13th, 2010 at 02:02 GMT	2 points
	Lou Harrison, Lou Reed, damn, nobody named 'Lou Stout'.

	ndude:	Aug 13th, 2010 at 03:10 GMT	8 points
	I knew I shouldn't have switched to Dvorak.

	quizzle:	Aug 13th, 2010 at 03:31 GMT	3 points
	thank you MeanMF! the basics of typing are: the 'home' keys for your index fingers are 'f' and 'j', which is why those keys always have those little grooves on them. the index finger extends over only 1 row of keys, so 'b' is on the left and 'y' is on the right. some other name suggestions: lou, wade, wes, bert, bart & art

	cricket0414:	Aug 13th, 2010 at 03:37 GMT	-3 points
	barbara and debra take two hands if you type the normal way you are suppose to type, other wise you could use one hand for every name

	PackRat:	Aug 13th, 2010 at 03:45 GMT	10 points
	Until they put a backspace key on the left side of the keyboard, I won't be able to answer half of these.

	andmybirdcansing:	Aug 13th, 2010 at 04:23 GMT	0 points
	@lalalala: I do the same thing. I use left for Y and right for B

	evil_fruit_girl:	Aug 13th, 2010 at 06:20 GMT	-1 points
	To contribute to the regional debate: I took typing in South Carolina (USA) and they taught us Y with right hand and B with either. Ergo, I always type Y with my right but I switch back and forth with B. I liked the quiz.

	doubleyuhat:	Aug 13th, 2010 at 08:03 GMT	3 points
	Good quiz, but Billy and Bob do not qualify. B is meant as left-handed.

	indyjeff:	Aug 13th, 2010 at 11:38 GMT	0 points
	@soccerchic: on reaching "unnaturally far" for a key, if you look at the b key on your keyboard, it is actually exactly the same distance from f as it is from j. Y, on the other hand, is clearly closer to j, although just slightly. Now I do type "as you're supposed to", and have always used left hand for B and right hand for Y, but it makes perfect sense that some people might use either. I don't think I had ever really thought about it before, but when the note at the top of the quiz said that many people use either hand for B, it made perfect sense after I looked at my keyboard for about 2 seconds.

	indyjeff:	Aug 13th, 2010 at 11:39 GMT	3 points
	Also, to all the people claiming this is a bad quiz because people use different fingers for different keys, or that you could type anything you want with only one hand, he clearly defines the quiz in the instructions and even lists which keys are considered "left-hand" or "right-hand", so the discrepancy in typing style should in no way affect anyones ability to succeed on the quiz.

	tbh444:	Aug 13th, 2010 at 11:40 GMT	1 point
	I really like the concept of this quiz, but the way it is set up means if you don't know of the famous people listed you have no chance, and if you do know them you will get the answer anyway - the fact they are one-handed first names is pretty irrelevant. Surely a better fit for the quiz title would be to just take the most popular first names that fit the criteria and guess them in no particular order.

	Kballs:	Aug 13th, 2010 at 12:37 GMT	2 points
	Y is closer to your right hand, B is closer to the left. It's common sense people. Anyone doing it differently was either incorrectly self-taught or had a typing teacher who'd never seen a keyboard before.