...because they are too difficult to type with one hand.

icicle, oxidize, panels, soaped, coaxial, dispels,
gospels, spatial, clamps, dispel, elapse, gospel,
pajama, palely, panama, lapels, and social.

YuckFoo 


#!/usr/bin/perl

   use strict;

   my ($DICT, $MIN) = qw(/usr/dict/words 6);
   my (%rows, %cols);
   my ($word, $score);

   addhash(0, \%rows, \%cols, 'qwertyuiop');
   addhash(1, \%rows, \%cols, 'asdfghjkl');
   addhash(2, \%rows, \%cols, 'zxcvbnm');

   if (!open (IN, $DICT)) {
      print STDERR "\nError opening file: $DICT\n\n"; exit;
   }

   while (chomp ($word = <IN>)) {
      if (length($word) >= $MIN && $word !~ m{[A-Z]}) {
         $score = score(\%rows, \%cols, $word);
         printf (STDOUT "%4.2f $word\n", $score);
      }
   }

#-----------------------------------------------------------
sub score {

   my ($rows, $cols, $str) = @_;
   my ($tot, $ch);
   my ($r, $c, $lr, $lc);

   for $ch (split('', $str)) {
      if ($lr eq '') {
         ($lr, $lc) = ($rows->{$ch}, $cols->{$ch});
      }
      else {
         ($r, $c) = ($rows->{$ch}, $cols->{$ch});
         $tot += abs($lr - $r) + abs($lc - $c);
         ($lr, $lc) = ($r, $c);
      }
   }

   return ($tot / (length($str) - 1));
}

#-----------------------------------------------------------
sub addhash {

   my ($row, $rows, $cols, $str) = @_;
   my ($i, $ch);

   for $ch (split('', $str)) {
      ($rows->{$ch}, $cols->{$ch}) = ($row, $i++);
   }
}

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