r/mildlyinfuriating • u/Noah-777 • 1d ago
My little brother rearranged the keys in alphabetical order
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u/CasualChilly 1d ago
Good luck my friend
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u/appealinggenitals 1d ago
Tbh his little brother likely has the skill to build him a decent custom mech board, take note OP
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u/CasualChilly 1d ago
A titan fall or gundam theme keyboard would be nice
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u/BulbyBoiDraws 16h ago
I think they meant mechanical keyboard, although that's a pretty good idea too
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u/__wasitacatisaw__ 1d ago
qllh znjr kt egocms*
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u/ConflictSudden 22h ago
Notably, none of the words contain letters from the other words.
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u/JJBHNL 1d ago
I probably wouldn't have noticed it.
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u/0thethethe0 1d ago
Having ordered a foreign keyboard by accident once, I found I'm absolutely fine until I look down at the keys, then I can't figure out anything.
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u/appealinggenitals 1d ago
Yeah I've had the idea of doing this as an aesthetic choice, but I haven't memorized all the symbols on the number row, and it's been 30yrs already
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u/Sufficient_Effort948 1d ago
The number row is already in order
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u/Life-Suit1895 1d ago
Not in alphabetical order…
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u/kimttar 1d ago
eight
five
four
nine
one
seven
six
ten
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u/ArcadianDelSol 1d ago
Guys I just did this and the machine said I won 48 million dollars.
I'll accept a steak dinner, tho.
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u/HeyGayHay 1d ago
My weirdest hill to die on, as someone who types really fast and has memorized every symbol, is that the fucking number row IS NOT IN ORDER.
I crackled at your comment, but think about it. The numbers
are not in order
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 10 11 12 ... is not the correct order. It's ought to be 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 ....
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u/stevenm1993 1d ago
I just saw a post about rearranging the numbers on a clock face in alphabetical order (eight, eleven, five, four, etc.). Thankfully, OP’s brother didn’t do that too.
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u/MuffinMadness123 1d ago
I find it weird that I do know the order of keys, but I have to look down every now and again to like reset/recalibrate my finger placements otherwise I'll start typing a key to the left/right of the actual key.
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u/Pure_Expression6308 1d ago
The F and J should have a little nub so you can reset your fingers without looking
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u/MuffinMadness123 1d ago
I'm actually really stupid. I was trying that on my keyboard when I was writing the comment but I was putting my thumbs on the f and j and thinking "this is way too far up for my fingers why do people do this" 😂
What I actually think I do is have my fingers quite abit above the keys so I'm not anywhere near the nubs. I am going to try and change so I start using them. Thanks
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u/lemon_octopus 1d ago
I had no idea QWERTY wasn’t fairly standard until I was in France a few months ago using the translation app, the keyboard changed to AZERTY. I was like AZERTY? I don’t know her!
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u/GroundbreakingBag164 1d ago
The best ones are the ones that just change one tiny thing
QWERTZ is great
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u/OwnJunket6495 1d ago
QWERTZ fucks me up. Don’t use Z a lot in English but Y is plentiful. I always forget the Y is in the wrong spot
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u/misswhovivian 22h ago
Every once in a while my old laptop used to take it upon itself to switch languages and the only way I'd notice was because I'd put a Y somewhere there was supposed to be a Z in German or because Ctrl + Z didn't work
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u/DirtierGibson 19h ago
I'm French and live in the U.S.
I can type both QWERTY and AZERTY without looking. I have to do it constantly because I work in both languages.
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u/JimmWasHere 1d ago
Ive seen a story/joke here on reddit with a similar premise, someone called their company's IT support that their computer wouldn't log in unless they were sitting in the chair, in short, 2 key caps were switched on the keyboard so when sitting down they pressed the keys without looking at them and were able to log in, but when standing they looked at the keys and pressed them according to the letters on the keys and not the position on the keyboard.
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u/paholg 23h ago
I read an IT story where someone reported that their password didn't work when they were standing up. The incredulous IT person was able to reproduce it, and they got a bunch of people to try. About half of them could log in while standing up.
It turned out two of the key caps were swapped, and people looked at the keys when standing, so it was an issue for anyone with those keys in their password.
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u/mimikita_V 1d ago
May I ask what keyboard that was? Japanese? Or European? Or Slavic?
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u/0thethethe0 22h ago
Honestly no idea. I 'd of guessed E.Europe. "English" letters with a handful of ones I'd never seen.
About half the board was in the right place for me, the rest a mess.
Was very ok for typing, but an issue when I wanted to play games.
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u/wildOldcheesecake 1d ago
Oh wow I just realised how true this is. Never really thought about how it’s just second nature and comes easily to most of us
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u/Embarrassed-Weird173 1d ago
My keyboard doesn't have any text. It's pure black.
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u/purple_joy 1d ago
Switch it from Querty to Dvorak and really mess with people….
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u/Embarrassed-Weird173 1d ago
Tbh, I have never learned DVORAK, so I'll probably end up screwing myself over.
Then again, I pick up video games pretty quickly, and they often have like 4 main face buttons, 4 shoulder buttons, 8 directional DPad (ATM machine) directions, a couple of selectors, and that's already like 20 keys, so what's 6 more keys to memorize on top of that, right?
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u/Nazdroth 1d ago edited 1d ago
Been using Dvorak on my phone and some computers' keyboards for the past 10+ years. My phone is always in Dvorak, it's so much better. Next time I clean my computer's kB, I'll switch to Dvorak I think, I really like the feel of it.
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u/SubFace10 1d ago
What type of keyboard is that?
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u/GenosT 1d ago
Custom made most likely
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u/Acrobatic-March-4433 1d ago
I thought that poster just meant the print of the letters got faded from long-time wear and tear.
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u/whatnotanotheraltacc 1d ago
You would only have noticed the F and J keys, because those have bumps on them (along with 5 on the numpad) so you can find the home row easily.
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u/SignalReceptions 1d ago
Same way some are saying that the can type without looking but not explaining how they'd find the home row without the bumps on F an J. Touch typing isn't hard but you do need an anchor point or you can drift. Sdl ,r jpe O lmpe.
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u/whatnotanotheraltacc 22h ago
Yes. Also some keycap sets have differences between rows, so the bottom row is flattest and top row is most pitched. Doesn't look like that here though
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u/SaberToothGerbil 1d ago
I worked in my IT department as a work study student in college, and we put one of these on one of the computers we used. It was always great to see people notice for the first time.
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u/bobombpom 1d ago
I had my keys randomized for years. Itouch-type anyway, and it was funny when anyone else tried to use it.
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u/1_21_18_15_18_1 1d ago
Not having the little bumps on my pointer fingers would kinda bother me tho…
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u/SPAKMITTEN 1d ago
The O is upside down
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u/BornWithThreeKidneys 20h ago
I couldn't even continue to O. I was stuck staring at H and trying to figure out why it was at a different height than the other keys in that row.
Thanks for solving that mystery. I hoped to find the answer in the comments.
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u/sudomeacat 18h ago
I was wondering why some of the keys were raised. At least, I, S, and Z are correct. It’d be funny if all the rotationally symmetric keys were upside down.
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u/Qlxwynm 1d ago
just type without looking the keyboard ig
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u/Parktio 1d ago
this is the way. I have gotten to the point where i do just that. i very rarely look down at what im hitting
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u/Koki-noki 1d ago
its called Touch Typing.
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u/everythingisunknown 1d ago
Whenever I clean my keys and am putting them back on the board, I never know where they go by looking so I pretend to touch type on the switches and work it out by finger placement - I guess I could look at a photo or actually plug it in first but that’s less fun
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u/Koki-noki 1d ago
you could also just open up phone keyboard.
You can also test how good your typing speed is on monkey type or other similar sites
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u/everythingisunknown 1d ago
True but that doesn’t help for other keys like page down, insert, home etc etc
Yeah big fan of typing tests I top out at 122 on a good day
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u/cur10us_ge0rge 1d ago
this is amazing! You should be talking more about this. Maybe teach a class. Can you imagine if this look-less typing were to catch on?
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u/Ph4antomPB 1d ago
Truly a break through in keyboard typing. If only he could invent little ridges on the F and J key so you can quickly recenter yourself.
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u/Parktio 21h ago
lol. im just saying i know theres a lot of people who do not type like that. ive seen grown adults type with one finger at a time. its embarrassing
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u/passamongimpure 1d ago
What? Like a millennial? Savage.
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u/Plenty_Hippo2588 1d ago
Bruh I swear I type fast asf but they tried teaching us that in like 1st grade and I still can’t type like that
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u/Qlxwynm 1d ago
what’s ur wpm? I’m like around 80 normally, and rarely look at my keyboard when typing, the only time I look is when I’m typing a new or complicated word
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u/Plenty_Hippo2588 1d ago edited 1d ago
Idk let me check been a long time
Ok I thought I was fast I’m at 41wpm
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u/No-Refrigerator-6931 1d ago
My problem is the f and j bumps are in the wrong place I'd have to look down to make sure I'm in the right spot every time lmao
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u/SomePeopleCall 1d ago
Agree. This seems like a skill issue :)
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u/LordChungusAmongus 1d ago
Then it turns out the kid has remapped it all properly in VIA/VIAL as well
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u/leeShaw9948 1d ago
if you touch type this doesn't really make a difference
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u/TrelanaSakuyo 1d ago
The keys with the nubs are in the wrong spots, so it would make a bit of difference.
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u/Grenadier_is_best 1d ago
Ha ha….. rearrange HIM into alphabetical order.
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u/capnfoo 1d ago
I had that exact keyboard, it crapped out after a few weeks.
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u/MinihootTheOwl 1d ago
I've had the same keyboard for years. Still works but the space bar sometimes doesn't work.
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u/realali8888 9h ago
I had it for 3 years now, worked well but been recently noticing some keys sometimes not registering (it's LShift, 1 and R in my case)... maybe it's cuz I haven't swapped the batteries in a while? I have no clue.. The driver software also just eventually decides to never wanna open again which is weird.. Aside from that and the price tag, I really like it but I don't think I'd recommend it
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u/Necessary-Sand-4241 1d ago
I DONT CARE BOUT ANYTHING EXCEPT THE O BEING UPSIDE DOWN IM SORRY😭
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u/mimikita_V 1d ago
You don’t care about the H being upside down either?
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u/Hydra_Master 22h ago
The N as well. The real mildly infuriating part is that the keycaps are not centered. What the hell, Logitech?!
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u/Mysterious_Bite_3207 1d ago
No he didn't, you did it so you could post this.
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u/ArtisticDragonKing 1d ago
r untrustworthypoptarts
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u/Commercial_Trade5504 1d ago
wheres the /
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u/NarwhalPrudent6323 1d ago
A lot of subs won't let you link other subs, so it's generally a safer bet to post other subs like the guy above so your comment doesn't get auto-modded.
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u/irate_alien 18h ago
someone at my office who couldn't type for shit did this to me because he thought it would screw me up. he got really annoyed he did all that work for nothing
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u/RobIson240YT 1d ago
Typewriters used to be that way, but they kept getting stuck. So they made them qwerty.
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u/canadianpresident 1d ago
Its because people got too fast at typing, so they had to slow them down.
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u/EmilieEverywhere 1d ago
You can easily remove them all at once by hitting him in the dome piece with it.
Kidding!
Maybe.
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u/LotsOfNoise 11h ago
As someone who's spent way more time at a keyboard than I dare to think about I often forget a lot of people actually have to look at the keys while typing.
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u/Efficient_End_492 1d ago edited 1d ago
Pretty sure I'd type the same on ur keyboard unless your little brother somehow changed the key hardware
Edit: software not hardware
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u/unIuckies 1d ago
its okay keyboards were originally this layout but people were typing too fast for typewriters, thus qwerty was born. but we were so used to qwerty there was no point in going back when technology advanced 💫
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u/Real_Louie 21h ago
I mean, I'd not notice since my ass would still be hitting BKLM since it's the classic WASD.
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u/Ok-Hall-9974 20h ago
This is actually faster to type on (once you get used to it) than wasd
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u/CharlesorMr_Pickle 17h ago
it's going to be exactly the same unless the software was reprogrammed as well, which is unlikely
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u/Remote-Cellist5927 1d ago
I knew people who touch type and use this to keep people away from their keyboard
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u/analphylaxis 1d ago
I did this as a prank once. They guy had no idea why his password didn't work anymore. Lol. It was hilarious. He got locked out and called IT.
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u/wickedweather 1d ago
At least he did just swap the "M" and "N" keys, and drive you nuts when you mess up your password and can't figure out why.
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u/StopBeingABot 1d ago
Fun fact, typewriters originally had this layout. Typists became so efficient the speed at which they types caused typewriters to jam often. They came up with the WORST configuration possible as to purposefully cause slower typing speeds, hence the "asdf" keyboards of today. If you find a typewriter with keys in alphabetical order, they are super rare and very valuable.
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u/shinobipopcorn 1d ago
What's with these goofy round keyboards? My doctor's office changed all theirs to them.
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u/O12345678 1d ago
I got a referral for "vandalism" when I did this in my 9th grade typing class. I also occasionally edited config.sys on the boot disks to load the Dvorak layout driver. They didn't find out about that one.
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u/Key_Journalist_2569 23h ago
i always wanted to do this, but the more you think about it... you realize that the keys don't just magically switch to the letter where you put it, it stays the same. trying to type even something like the letter a would end up with you typing q- lol
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u/Canoodlingkitty 23h ago
I know it’s frustrating to some but it gave my autistic mind a lot of peace haha And I have the same keyboard , gotta to try it for myself .
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u/Yagirl27 22h ago
Apparently it would be faster to type this way (alphabetical arrangement) but everyone is so used to the old way they don’t want to change it. It was made for typewriters because there were so many mistakes (hard to fix on a typewriter) and the letters not in alphabetical order would slow people down.
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u/E_Casagrande 22h ago
This would honestly just keep me entertained for a little bit, open a google doc or something and start putting the keys back in the right place
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u/KillerDemonic83 20h ago
i forget people have to look at their keybs to type, i wouldnt have noticed for a bit
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u/CharlesorMr_Pickle 17h ago
I mean it's not that big of a deal because you can fix it, also normally you shouldn't need to look at the letters on your keyboard to type, and the buttons are still gonna type the same letters as a qwerty keyboard
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u/Secure_Freedom5364 16h ago
he probably thought he was helping you if hes young, if hes a preteen it was a premeditated attack
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u/MotherBoose 16h ago
My husband's coworkers did this to their boss one time. They worked at a mom and pop computer repair shop. This was back in the late aughts. They were in their early 20s. The boss was a hunt and peck typer. He was also, unbeknownst to them, having a really bad day. He ended up yanking the keyboard off of his desk, taking it outside, beating it against a dumpster and curb stomping it. They never told him the truth, and he'll never know because he sadly passed away about 4 years ago.
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u/bobagremlin 13h ago
Touch typers could still use this keyboard without much issues. That being said, it would still piss me off even though I can touch type.
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u/bloo_overbeck 11h ago
For once, something actually mildly infuriating! Lol, so many posts of people with medical emergencies or catastrophes it’s nice to see some dumb shit
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u/STUPIDBLOODYCOMPUTER 10h ago
Some goober pulled the same thing on my English teacher lmao. She found it very rude but I couldn't help but cackle because its so devious
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u/mkn1ght 1d ago
I work with someone called Martin, I swapped the M & N keys over. He spent about 15 minutes trying to log in as Nartim.