Yes. Any time I capitalize a letter on the left side of the keyboard. Isn’t that normal?
That is the way I was taught, but not the way I did it then. Never developed the habit, so I never do it.
Damn, that makes sense. I one hand everything with my left hand. Maybe it’s because of muscle memmory from playing videogames lol
I tend to use right shift for pretty much everything. The arrow glyph has worn off the key I use it so much.
Important factors:
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British English keyboards, like the one I have, tend to be ISO, with a larger shift key on the right. Bigger target. Easier to hit.
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I have at least a couple of passwords that each have at least one shifted character from the left side of the keyboard and it’s much easier to use both hands when I need to type those.
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It might even go back to the fact that most of my early typing was on a Commodore 64C and the positions of surrounding keys. Hitting shift-lock or run/stop by mistake would have been a nuisance. Caps lock isn’t quite as annoying because it’s not a literal mechanical toggle, but even so, the right shift avoids that particular error.
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I was taught to type that way, but I was never that good at using my right pinky while typing a letter with my left. Or maybe I just wasn’t good at coordinating which shift key to use with which letter. So I started just always using the left shift key which I somehow never had a problem with.
If I have to type capital A, left pinky holds shift and ring finger hits the A. This isn’t the “right” way to touch type, but I can still type pretty fast.
But to do that you are bending your wrist sideways which will eventually start causing wrist pain. Better if you can get out of that habit before it starts causing trouble.
I hope I can. I’ve been doing this for like 25 years …
I usually hold shift with my left pinky for any letter on the keyboard, because I prefer to type with both hands.
i don’t type capital letters
because fuck capitalism :3
That’s capitalisation. Capitalism is a philosophical view that the universe is solely based on randomness
That’s casualism. Capitalism is the practice of eating the flesh of your own kind
That’s cannibalism. Capitalism was a practice done in the First Brazilian Republic that is also known as “rule of the colonels”.
That’s carnivorism. Capitalism is when an organism has tissue made of different genetic composition
That’s chimerism. Capitalism is a large-scale and violent event in the natural world.
That’s a cataclysm. Capitalism is a criminal act conducted with computers and resulting in violence, destruction, or death of targets in an effort to scare people and coerce a government to alter it’s policies.
That’s cyberterrorism. Capitalism describes a chain of events where an initial action or event triggers a series of subsequent events, each building upon the previous, leading to a larger, often unforeseen, outcome.
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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, I touch type so use it whenever I capitalise a letter typed by the left hand.
I thought this was strange, but I noticed my muscle memory actually uses left shift for letters typed with my left hand, and right shift for my right, I use my pinkie in either case.
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. Proper use of touch typing uses both shift keys. That’s how I type.
I think a good followup question for this one would be “Were you able to answer the question from memory?”
I couldn’t remember, so I had to do some typing to see. And based on the amount of visible keycap wear, I’d say they get used equally.
Yes, because I ran out of keys to bind in modded Minecraft.
I touch-type, so yes.
Once every blue moon I’ll use the right shift to Ctrl+Shift+m and unmute a Teams call but thats the only time I can think I’ve used it.
I legitimately know people who press the caps lock key, type what they need uppercased, then press the caps lock key again. That said, I use both shift keys.
Well, I don’t use the wrong shift key /s
I do. Perhaps, as another poster pointed out, it ties into typing classes I had back in the late '80s or early '90s.
Yes. E.g. when typing a capital
PQ. But less often for more complex chords, I use left hand modifiers more often when using multiple modifiers.That is the exact opposite of how you’re supposed to do things (assuming you’re on a qwerty keyboard or other keyboard where P is typed with the right hand). The reason there are two shift keys is so that you can hold down the one that is not the one you’re typing the letter with, i.e. you should be using the left shift key to type P, but the right shift key to type Q, W, E, R, etc.
Yeah, but I’m gonna one hand it anyway!
You’re thinking of a different qwerty.
Ah, you’re right, I got my left and right mixed up in that example 😅
Anyway, I use both.
Only if I need to type a capital letter with one hand
I forgot that it was even there lol
