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On Sat, 09 Apr 2016 11:44:48 -0400, Random832 <random832@fastmail.com>
declaimed the following:

>I don't understand where this idea that alternating hands makes you
>slows you down came from in the first place... I suspect it's people who

	It's not (to my mind) the alternation that slows one down. It's the
combination of putting common letters under weak fingers and some
combinationS that require the same hand/finger to slow one down.

aspect		a is on the weakest left finger, with the s on a finger that
many people have trouble moving independently from the middle finger (hmm,
I seem to be okay moving the ring finger, but moving the middle finger
tends to drag the ring with it). p is the weakest finger of the right hand.
e&c use the same finger of the left hand, t is the strongest finger but one
is coming off the lower-row reach of middle-finger c.

deaf		is all left hand, and the de is the same finger... earth except
for the h is also all left hand, and rt are the same finger.

	I suspect for any argument for one side, a corresponding counter can be
made for the other side. There are only 5.5 vowels (the .5 is Y) in
English, so they are likely more prevalent than the 20-odd consonants when
taking singly. Yet A is on the weakest finger on the weakest (for most of
the populace) hand. IOU OTOH are in a fast three-finger roll -- and worse,
IO is fairly common (all the ***ion endings).

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