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Google hpph;r.
Returns search results and offers "Did you mean?'s" even if the whole word or phrase is a typo. | |
Sometimes I accidentally
begin typing with my fingers
in unusual starting positions.
I.e. if my left pinky is on the
's' and my right pinky on the ",
then the word 'google' will
look like 'hpph;r'. If my left
pinky was on the 'q' and my
right on the 'p', then the word
'google' will
look like 't99to3'.
If I make this mistake when
I'm googling something, then
I get no or poor results.
Because the errors are
deterministic, there should be
a simple way to treat this like
a spelling error for search
purposes. So this idea is for
an algorithm and its
implentation to recognize
and respond to these typos.
hpph;r/vp,
http://www.urbandic...rm=hpph%3Br%2Fvp%2C
[tatterdemalion, Sep 05 2015]
Do you mean ....
_22_20Do_20you_20me...HIS_20Marc_3f_20_22
[normzone, May 01 2017]
[link]
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/there was never a point that anyone got taught to type/ |
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The opposite is true now; tiny kids are typing as they learn their letters, and basically just hashing something out that works. If there is any formal typing instruction involved I have not heard about it yet. |
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I love this idea. I often have the exact same problem. Which
means we have been googling nonsense together. Yay. |
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Incidentally, this is also a very weak cipher. |
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OK, so the challenge is to find a word of more than
three letters which, when typed in an offset position
on a regular keyboard, still produces a legitimate
word. |
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So far the best I can do is "gets" and "fwra", where
"fwra" is the past participle of the Icelandic for "run". |
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Longest word wins three free breakfasts paid for by
[8th]. |
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Whoa. I've just discovered that Welsh is English
offset by one key to the left. |
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Like [Ian T], I was never taught to type at school because no one had personal computers then. So, my typing has evolved over the years so that I now type at a reasonable speed using two fingers on each hand and one thumb, while looking at the keyboard. This means that it's now impossible for me to learn to type 'properly' as any first steps along this path would be a massive backwards step in terms of typing speed. What I'd like, I suppose, is a typing method which evolves my current typing style into something a bit better. |
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wordlength=2
if not open (dictionary)
{
open dictionary
}
while wordlength<10
{
getword (ptr thisword, wordlength)
lookformatch (ptr thisword, wordlength)
}
getword(length)
{
while not (word is right length)
{
check current word length
increment pointer to location of next word
}
return ptr
}
lookformatch (thisword, wordlength)
{
nummatches=0
new array (wordImMatching [wordlength, nummatches])
wordImMatching [1,0]=
Okay I'm out of my depth atthis point. We need to
recursively search for matching words but I don't know
how to do that efficiently. The best I could do is search
the entire dictionary for each character matching the
first in the word I'm looking for, then reduce the search
space for each word not found. I can't recurse. |
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[bigsleep] That's a bit old-school - the pangram to use now is "Jackdaws love my big sphinx of quartz". Also the pangram you cite doesn't need the word 'back' at the end. |
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//We need to recursively search for matching
words// |
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Why recursively? Given a 10,000 word dictionary
and all possible offsets (given that you have to
remain in the "letter" zone of the keyboard), you
could do a brute force analysis:
for each word
for each horizontal offset
for each vertical offset
compute new word
is it in the dictionary?
next
next
next
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Spot the VBA programmer. ;) |
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[bigsleep] Keyboards have a useful physical property of touch. Distinguishing the f and j keys, in order to position and order your writing using touch isn't necessarily the consideration here. Its more about mistouch, which probably isnt a real word. Mistouch, I mean, isn't 'real' not 'hpph;r', which is a very real 'accidental' word brought about by mistouching the keys. |
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Are you sure you didn't mean hpph;r ? |
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[Flyingtoaster] Exactutuckly, Are you sure...? Slang, typo, etc. Fundamentally keyboards are physical representations of alphabets, pressed upon to make words and sentences. Consequently, any specific organization and common style/s of usage, of said keyboard, become/s, by/in itself, the object of creative affectation, such as hpph;r. This ofc is not a big problem, but wtf, why not consider it. Consider it, I mean, for practical everyday search purposes. By instance, if any mispelling/mistouch can be attributed/misattributed with statistical certainty to key location, itself, and/or finger positioning, then extrapolate and blah blah blah. |
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//Interestingly, there was never a point that anyone got
taught to type at school. |
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I was the only guy in year 9 typing class. It was... interesting. |
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I occasionally produce work with one hand offset, but not
the other, which is an additional permutation. |
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This is at least partially due to a non-standard typing
approach. I was taught home row, but my actual
positioning has my right hand further over, and the left
and right both moving to hit the central keys as needed. |
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(and this was really hard to type, because I was thinking
about how I was typing it). |
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Odd. I had typing back in 1989. We had IBM electric
typewriters in class then. I much prefer to type than write
anything. |
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This could get interesting for multiple languages / multi-
lingual keyboard formats. |
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