• wattanao
      3•1 month ago

      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.

    • RandomStickman
      7•1 month ago

      Damn, that makes sense. I one hand everything with my left hand. Maybe it’s because of muscle memmory from playing videogames lol

    • @[email protected]
      3•1 month ago

      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.

      • @[email protected]
        2•1 month ago

        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.

    • AmidFuror
      12•1 month ago

      That is the way I was taught, but not the way I did it then. Never developed the habit, so I never do it.

    • cally [he/they]English
      1•1 month ago

      I usually hold shift with my left pinky for any letter on the keyboard, because I prefer to type with both hands.

    • palordrolap
      3•1 month ago

      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:

      1. 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.

      2. 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.

      3. 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.

  • make -j8
    2•1 month ago

    yes it gives me access to “%”, which is handy for string interpolation

  • 🇰 🌀 🇱 🇦 🇳 🇦 🇰 🇮 English
    3•1 month ago

    I have literally only ever used the right shift key when playing, like, two different games. Both were simulations with insane amounts of controls. One is ARMA, and the other was a flight sim.

    I used it because it had a function bound to it that wasn’t on the left shift.

    Edit: Oh and I think there was a pinball game on DOS that used both shift keys to operate the flippers.

  • Max
    3•1 month ago

    exclusively. i never use the left shift for anything other than running in games.

  • Cyniez
    2•1 month ago

    yep when game controls wasn t with wasd u have to use arrow keys to move the player

  • @[email protected]English
    3•1 month ago

    other than as a keybind in a singular Minecraft mod, no never. Always the left one, I also never use the caps lock key

  • @[email protected]English
    3•1 month ago

    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.

  • @[email protected]
    7•1 month ago

    Yes. E.g. when typing a capital P Q. But less often for more complex chords, I use left hand modifiers more often when using multiple modifiers.

    • @[email protected]
      10•1 month ago

      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.