I just realized that I never use the right Shift key. Always the left. Do any of you primarily use the right Shift key?
Ask HN: Which Shift key do you primarily use?
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#3Left, I don't think i've ever used the right shift key. I'm right handed, if that means anything. Maybe lefties use the right shift key?
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#4Left, I don't think i've ever used the right shift key. I'm right handed, if that means anything. Maybe lefties use the right shift key?
I always use the left shift, and like you I never touch the right. But I'm a lefty...
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#5I was going to say that I prefer the left shift key... but while writing this comment, I realized I'm using the right shift key.
(I'm right-handed and anchor my right pinky on the shift key. Somewhere, a typing tutor screams in horror. I use the left control key exclusively.)
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#6If you type properly using both your hands, you should use both of them almost equally. That's what I do. Use the left shift key for keys pressed by your right hands, and right shift key for keys pressed by your left.
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#7I always use the left shift. And instinctively use my left ring finger if I need an uppercase Q, A, or Z. The right shift is just too far away.
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#8Right shift for using uppercase letters and symbols, left shift for selecting text and for some key combinations.
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#9This was a more interesting question than I thought at first. I looked at my keyboard, and I see equal wear on both keys. I tried typing the first sentence using Title Case, and I find that I use the pinky of the opposite hand that's typing to make capital letters. I've never thought the right shift key is "far away" at all.
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#10Left, I don't think i've ever used the right shift key. I'm right handed, if that means anything. Maybe lefties use the right shift key?
I'm the same as you. I rarely-to-never use the right shift key