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 use it to wake my computer up when the display is off.
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.
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?
Yea, but the lazy way is to move the whole left hand to the right and pressing a with the ringfinger… Slower and a bad habit but I am doing it since I learned how to type
Ooh, clever way to train yourself!
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.
Ah, you’re right, I got my left and right mixed up in that example 😅
Anyway, I use both.
Yeah, but I’m gonna one hand it anyway!
You’re thinking of a different qwerty.
Yup, because I re-map WASD to my arrows and the right shift is near there.
only for keybinds that use shift and some other keys that are a little to far away from Lshift on my keyboard.
With emulators mostly.
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.
I forgot that it was even there lol
Nope
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Yes, sometimes, on one of my keyboards the left one doesn’t work for some weird software related reason
I only use it when I have food in one hand and can’t reach the desired key + left shift with my other hand.
exclusively. i never use the left shift for anything other than running in games.
Never because I can reach left shift with my pinky from basically anywhere on the keyboard
