only for keybinds that use shift and some other keys that are a little to far away from Lshift on my keyboard.
exclusively. i never use the left shift for anything other than running in games.
No, I don’t. I know the proper way is to use right shift to type capital letters with the left hand, but I fell out of that a long time ago.
No, never. My keyboard doesn’t even have one (40%)
yep when game controls wasn t with wasd u have to use arrow keys to move the player
I only use it when I have food in one hand and can’t reach the desired key + left shift with my other hand.
I type with both hands usually so use both, but when doing the one hand thing it’s always the right shift key. That one is more worn on my keyboard.
I touch-type, so yes.
So, everyone who said “no” never learned how to type or what?
Never because I can reach left shift with my pinky from basically anywhere on the keyboard
That red-headed step-child? No way.
Yes, I trained myself only to use opposite hand shift combinations. You can do this with a programmable keyboard, autohotkey, or karabiner.
So Left Shift+a doesn’t do anything, only Right Shift+a will output A
It was a exercise in getting better typing hygiene.
Ooh, clever way to train yourself!
You shouldn’t be able to use the left shift key and hit “a” at the same time anyway as your left pinky should be used for both?
Yes, but not as often as the left.
While touch typing, I pretty much always use the left shift key. To type “A” for example I slid my hand over one set of keys and pressed the A key with my ring finger. Right shift ends up used mostly with the punctuation marks to the right, like I actually move my entire right hand down to hit shift and ?
I also strike T, Y and B with different hands depending on what I’m typing.
There may be some other eccentricities but I do mostly touch type properly, asdfjkl; and all that.
Yes, I use both. Learned typing that way.
It’s funny, isn’t it? My mom made me take a typing class at the community college one summer - on IBM electric typewriters. This was before everyone owned game consoles, much less PCs. You’d think in today’s world, typing classes would be even more in demand, but are they? Do kids take typing classes in K-12?
I learned typing on a mechanical typewriter back in school. I thought it would speed up my typing on the computer, but actually didn’t, because what I did on the computer was programming, which is quite incompatible with ten-finger typing.
But nowadays it is actually helpful when I write texts, although I have to switch context quite often (reading the original text in one window, then switching to the editor to write the summary). Still faster than other peoples “eagle typing”: looking for the right key and descending on it with one finger.
Same. That’s why it’s there, folks.
Ergonomically, you should use the Shift (or Ctrl or Alt) key on the opposite side of the keyboard as the key you are modifying. This helps prevent carpal tunnel issues because you can keep your wrists straight and not be twisting them unnaturally to reach key combos. You should also not have your wrists resting on the wrist rest or other surface while typing as that also contributes to carpal tunnel problems. Just use it in between stretches of typing (or maybe people just hunt and peck these days, I dunno).
Just as I learned on a mechanical typewriter.
Yes, because I ran out of keys to bind in modded Minecraft.
