wherein one or more keys on the keyboard has a correspondence with a plurality of characters and wherein the correspondence enables qwerty based typing in another aspect the invention comprises an apparatus for character entry on an electronic device comprising a keyboard with a plurality of keys and an electronic display device in communication with the keyboard wherein one or more keys on the keyboard has a correspondence with a plurality of characters and wherein for each of the one or more keys the plurality of characters comprises a home row character associated with a particular finger when touch typing and a non home row character associated with the particular finger when touch typing application_number US 20494005 A description 1 a preferred embodiment of the present invention comprises the one row keyboard a regular u201c qwerty u201d keyboard consists of the letters of the alphabet in lower case and then an additional set of characters and control keys to be specific we shall assume that the u201c regular u201d keyboard for touch typing consists of 30 symbols arranged in three rows row 1 qwert yuiop row 2 asdfg hjkl row 3 zxcvb nm it will be convenient to assign a specific number u03b1 1 u2266 u03b1 u2266 30 to each of the letters and symbols of this regular keyboard starting with the upper left and going row wise the letters on the first row obtain numbers u03b1 with 1 u2266 u03b1 u2266 10 and so on for example the letter v is assigned the number u03b1 u03b1 v 24 we also.