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Meaning of keyboard distance | Babel Free

Noun CEFR B2

Definitions

  1. The shortest path between two keys in a keyboard layout in terms of the number of intermediate keys.
  2. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see keyboard, distance.

Examples

“We then computed a keyboard distance between any two given keys based on the minimum number of adjacent keys that the finger must travel over to reach one from the other assuming a QWERTY keyboard layout. For example the keyboard distance for the {a,s} pair is 1 and {a,c} is 3 (based on the path a→s→d→c) by this definition.”

CEFR level

B2
Upper Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B2 vocabulary — upper intermediate level.

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