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> the amount of wirst bending to move sideways across a straight keyboard is a known finite quantity

That amount is not a universal constant. I have large hands with long fingers, and I’ve played piano when I was a teenager. I don’t bend wrists to type stuff, at least when using furniture which suits me, and a full-sized desktop keyboard.

> those with the keyboard split in the middle

Indeed, it was one of them.