Do you use both shift keys? or only one?

[Arcadio]

Interesting. I've never thought it could be because of gaming, but it makes sense now. I also took typing class in college.

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[TallBill]

Interesting. I've never thought it could be because of gaming, but it makes sense now. I also took typing class in college.

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[BxgJ]

i see your not a gamer...

because shift is always either the "sprint" or "crouch" key... and well WASD keys are movement... and sometimes it requires us to use Q or E on top of WASD while holding shift down.

+1 for gaming

Though when typing I do use both.

 

[Drako]

+1 for gaming

Though when typing I do use both.

This.

I'm a gamer as well, but when I'm typing I actually use typing skills, not gaming skills.

Plus I know you guys aren't real gamers, because real gamers use ESDF.

 

[BurnItDwn]

I use both shift keys, but left shift gets more use mostly due to gaming.

 

[TheVrolok]

I use both, but do use the right shift key more frequently when typing.

 

[Imp]

Should have asked how many hands I usually type with... One unless I'm typing more than a sentence.

 

[Insomniator]

I exclusively used left shift. Then the left shift at my keyboard at work broke, and having to use the right shift is the most annoying thing ever, but i'm getting used to it. I'm only in the office once a week so I haven't bothered complaining about it...

 

[clamum]

I learned typing throughout school, starting in grade school (maybe 4th grade). I can type 100 WPM with 97% accuracy. I only use the left shift. Wish I used both but I'm so used to just the left that I don't think there's a point in overcoming my bias (plus I type fast enough already).

 

[sswingle]

Left only here, and other than that, I do everything else the "proper" way.

 

[DigDog]

I've never used the right shift key for typing. Is that a common occurrence?

there ya go.

 

[mgttr]

I use both shift keys, learned it that way in touch typing class. I also use my "h" key.

 

[lxskllr]

I use both. Depends on which makes more sense, but I do favor left shift. I can't type at all. Not quite hunt/peck, but not touch typing either.

 

[IronWing]

This thread is blazing a dangerous path. Some tech flunky is going to replace the right shift key with a like key or some such bullshit. The Win key and the menu key are bad enough.

 

[edro]

Wow...
...I just now realized there was a Right Shift key.
Mind blown.

 

[Drako]

Not many people around anymore that grew up with a manual typewriter. I guess that might account for most not using the right shift anymore? :hmm:

 

[Captante]

Left shift only

 

[twinrider1]

Both. Took a year of typing in high school.

Just thinking, elementary schools that have stopped teaching cursive should start teaching typing.

 

[MongGrel]

I think some of this habit is reinforced by those of us who did FPS games on the PC for years. Left pinky is used to hitting shift to duck/crouch or run/walk. Left hand hit space bar to jump. Q was usually weapon swap.

Right hand is always on the mouse.

This.

 

[DigDog]

The Win key and the menu key are bad enough.

I have a registry hack that unbinds my menu/windows keys anyway; they dont work. Or capslock for the matter. The windows key seems to have been put there specifically to mess with gamers when they play fullscreen.
(the menu key idk what it even does)

 

[lxskllr]

My home keyboard doesn't have a win key, and capslock is reassigned as a compose key.

 

[HeXen]

I left pinky every multi key combination. Keyboards are archaic. Dictation is better than typing any day.

 

[Ken g6]

i see your not a gamer...

because shift is always either the "sprint" or "crouch" key... and well WASD keys are movement... and sometimes it requires us to use Q or E on top of WASD while holding shift down.

I started PC gaming on a machine with a KVM activated by left control. So I shifted my keys two to the right.

 

[IronWing]

I started PC gaming on a machine with a KVM activated by left control. So I shifted my keys two to the right.

The damn Win key is like premature withdrawal. You're playing right along, move to hit "jump", and POP - you're looking at your desktop. Meanwhile, you're dead.

 

[Eli]

Ditto, my right shift key is unloved. Very, very rarely use it.