Best Job Cities & Keyboard Facts

Looking for a new gig in 2026? Dangerous Dave talks about a study that says Scottsdale, AZ may be the place to be. Plus, World Typewriter Day, we talk keyboard facts.

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
This is istuber in the den with dangerous Day. Well,
if you're looking for a new gig. In twenty twenty six,
there's a new report about the best place to be
not quite in Phoenix. Four cities around Phoenix, OH made
the top thirty in walle At Hubbs new ranking, Phoenix
ranked itself at number seventy two, so they looked at
the top one hundred and eighty two cities in the US.

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They also looked at things like job opportunities, starting salaries,
unemployment rates, and commute times. In job satisfaction, top five
include Scottsdale, Columbia, Maryland was number two, Portland, Maine was
number three, South Burlington, Vermont at number four. In Pittsburgh
ranked at number five. It ranked first in job opportunity.

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Google and Apple have offices do Lingo and Dick Sporting
Goods also have headquarters there. Rest of the top ten Orlando, Plano, Texas, Washington,
d C. Austin, Texas, and Huntsville, Alabama. Closest to US
Minnesota and Minneapolis ranked at number twenty three, and Bismarck
ranked at number sixteen of the best cities to get

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jobs in twenty twenty six, I think I'll stick here
in the two. Today is World Typing Day, and there's
a good chance you're going to celebrate by typing something
on a keyboard. Here's some fun facts about the keyboard.
Typewriting machines have been around since Christopher Latham Shoals patented
it in eighteen sixty eight. Ever since its invention, the
typewriter has contained the quarity keyboard layout. Fastest typest in

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the world was two hundred and sixteen words per minuted.
The average typing speed is about forty one words per minute.
The longest common word that can be spelled with just
the top row, oddly enough, is typewriter, and using just
a middle row it's alfalfa, and the bottom row is
pretty useless since there's no vowels. The only country whose
name can be typed and one row of the keyboard

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is Peru. The only US state is Alaska. Stewardess's is
the longest word that can be typed quirity keyboard with
just your left hand. For the right hand, longest word
is polyphony. According to a new study, when you're typing,
eighteen percent of keyboard strokes go to the space bar.
When you hit the space bar, you're doing it at
the exact moment at about six hundred thousand other people

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throughout the world. In the early days of typewriters, the
number one was clearly absent in many typewriters because you'd
just use a lowercase L, and early typewriters didn't include
an exclamation mark either. You'd have to type an apostrophe,
then backspace and type the period. I remember that, and
I remember taking typing in high school. It was just
a precursor by just a couple of years of keyboarding.

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And I'm glad I did, because you know, I don't
have to hunt and pack in one finger, even though
most of the time that's what I still do. To
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