Keyboard Facts

TYPEWRITER is one of the longest common words that can be typed using only the top row of a QWERTY keyboard, though three obscure 11-letter words (rupturewort, proprietory, and proterotype) technically hold the record.

"Stewardesses" is the longest common English word that can be typed using only the left hand on a standard QWERTY keyboard.

Alaska is the only state that can be typed on one row of keys on a QWERTY keyboard.