So, everyone who said "no" never learned how to type or what?
Yes I have never learned to type and left shift isn't getting any use.
Subjectively should I learn how to type ? I do like 60 wpm currently without training and use probably 7/10 fingers.
My keyboard has two shift keys. I don't think I've ever used the right shift key, not even for usage with emulators for consoles with a lot of buttons... the modifier is always the left shift key since it's closest to my left hand and I can have my right hand on the other side where the arrow keys are. The arrow keys, WASD, Z, X, A, S, Q,W, 1, 2 etc have always been sufficient for most games.
Which one is the wrong one?
I only use it when I have food in one hand and can't reach the desired key + left shift with my other hand.
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.
No, never. My keyboard doesn't even have one (40%)
only for keybinds that use shift and some other keys that are a little to far away from Lshift on my keyboard.
My brain refuses to remember that they there are any utility keys below the enter on a US keyboard. The right pinky moves over and up, never down. I also never hit the spacebar with my right hand.
I never formally learned to type, I just picked it up because my hands have been glued to keyboards since the 80s.
Yes, ofc! I have it switched to the up-arrow on my 60%.
Otherwise no.
I had to type a bit to check, but found that I mostly use the right shift if the letter I'm capitalizing is on the left side of the keyboard. Oddly, it wasn't 100% though.
Yes, when doing Ctrl+Insert to copy then Shift+Insert to paste
Yeah, pretty sure i use it for capitalising symbols on the right of the keyboard.
In fact, i think i might use it for some of the symbols above the numbers, too.
I need to get in front of a keyboard and find out.
That red-headed step-child? No way.
yep when game controls wasn t with wasd u have to use arrow keys to move the player
Yes, sometimes, on one of my keyboards the left one doesn’t work for some weird software related reason
Never. I exclusively use my left thumb for the space bar, too.
I could probably type faster if I fixed those issues, but 30 years of bad habits die hard.
Yup, because I re-map WASD to my arrows and the right shift is near there.
Sure, if I'm inputting data with the Numpad.
... You use capital numbers?
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.
Yes but only occasionally. I have them mapped as space cadet shift keys so left shift key is ( on tap and shift on hold, right shift key is ) on tap and shift on hold.
I use ( a lot but my ide normally adds the ) for me so I don't need it as much for that.
Also, I use left shift for most capitals as I rarely gpt further than ; on the right side of the keyboard.
Smaller keyboards I have shift on hold of A and L as I don't have dedicated shift keys kn those.
Constantly, but only at work. I use it for ? and that's it.
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