Comments on: Wrong Word, Right Key Strokes Challenge

By: youngnh

youngnh — Fri, 10 Apr 2009 15:39:33 +0000

I know, I’m 12 years old.

By: youngnh

youngnh — Fri, 10 Apr 2009 15:39:14 +0000

I wrote a unix script to solve this using just sed, sort, uniq and cat, I’ll post on it later, but my favorite was:
gyno -> hump

By: benjaminplee

benjaminplee — Fri, 10 Apr 2009 03:40:33 +0000

Because I don't really know Perl and I know I will need this handy script again some day, here is the line I used to sort the result files by line length: perl -e 'print sort {length $a length $b} ' file.name ** taken from here.

By: benjaminplee

benjaminplee — Fri, 10 Apr 2009 03:38:49 +0000

Because no one has yet to answer my challenge, I threw together a quick script in Ruby to see how it might be done. If anyone is interested, I put the code up on DZone Snippets here.

Using the unix and scrabble dictionary word lists from the NPL site and a couple handle commands to sort/combine/remove duplicates in the result files I was left with a file containing 129 unique combinations of words which if the finders were either LEFT/RIGHT/ABOVE/BELOW their normal position would result in another “real” word. An abreviated version of the result word list is posted below. Many are not words I know or would use … but its still interesting.

escort – waxier
bored – views
derry – sweet
drest – sewar
feuar – grist
minos – nubia
agio – shop
auks – sild
aura – sits
awed – serf
ayes – surd
bien – norm
biff – nogg
bobs – viva
bods – visa
bore – view
bort – vier
boys – vita
bura – nits
byes – nurd
dibs – fond
dies – ford
dins – suba
dirt – suer

By: kooz

kooz — Wed, 08 Apr 2009 00:16:44 +0000

are you sure there -are- any?
strike that, i can already see RIB -> TON, SIN -> DOM, FIR -> GOT, RUN -> TIM. more than that and who the heck knows.

i’d be curious about if thiw was set up so that you had only one hand in the wrong position. i especially wonder that because i use my left hand to type the letter Y.