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New submitter ne0phyte73 writes: In some countries and in some touch typing books key "6" is pressed with right hand and in some others with left. It's not a big issue until you have a split keyboard. Guys at UHK are putting it on the left side. Do you agree? What hand do you use to press "6"? Left hand here, but it's not a strong preference; I'll take a keyboard that omits Caps Lock wherever they put the 6.
I press the "3" key twice, really fast.
Left index is weaker. Although I don't type numbers enough to be a real touch typist with them. And I type 100 WPM.
I use the numpad almost always.
I use the number pad a lot more often than the top row of number keys.
It depends on what key I'm hitting just before it and with which hand.
Perhaps the split-keyboard designers could solve the issue by putting a 6 key on both halves.
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So I use my right hand to press the "6" key (and any other number key, for that matter).
It falls on the left side of the keyboard. So use the numpad like a normal person.
Whichever finger is closest to the 6 key wins. It's the American way.
My Microsoft Natural 4000 keyboard has it on the left.
Since I've been using Microsoft ergonomic keyboards for years, I'm now in the habit of hitting the 6 with my left forefinger.
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Whichever side it's on the "B" key should be on the same side...
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I agree, but I think the reason for this is that the only thing they have do with "their" keyboards and mice is the MS logo on it.
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Sweden here and it seems like I press the 6 key with left hand. Looking at finger charts it looks like right is slightly more common
Microsoft's split KBs (e.g. 4000) have 6 on the left. Same for my fancy Goldtouch. Versions of these have been around since the 90's, all with the 6 on the left.
I took a typing class in 10th grade (the first opportunity I had back in the 80s). It was the most practically useful class I had in high school. The class was very clear in teaching that you use your right index finger for 6 and 7, while your left does 4 and 5. Going down the keyboard, the left index finger also does T, G, and B, while the right does Y, H, and N. The only one I do wrong is 6.
Now looking at my keyboard, 6 is almost centered between F and J, the home positions for the index fingers, but it's ever so slightly closer to F, so perhaps they were teaching the class wrong?
The six is closest to the right hand when resting on the home row. It's in line with the rest of the keys that the right hand press like y h and n. Why would you press it with the left?
I use base 6 for all my work.
Does anyone make a split keyboard with a 6 for both halves? That would seem to satisfy everyone at a cost of one extra key.
Of course, I use the num-pad with my right hand. Who would not?
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For typing on a laptop without a numpad, I'd usually say right middle finger. But on my desktop keyboard (with numpad) I mostly use the 6 on the top row while playing games. Since it's usually bound to the same group of actions 1-5 are, I'm used to accessing that group of actions with my left hand.
On my keyboard, the "B" key is much more ambiguous than the 6 (excluding the number pad, of-course).
I'm one of those guys that took a touch typing class with a bunch of girls back in high school. Do they even teach typing in school any more?
Anyhoo, the teacher (back in the 70's) was very specific about which hand/finger went with which finger.
Yes, I press the 6 key with either my right or left hand. It depends on whichever key I pressed last, and whichever index finger is therefore closest. Unless I'm using a keyboard with a number pad, then it's always the right hand...
I use my left hand to hold the left ALT key and then I use my right hand to push 5 and 4 on the numeric keypad.
If I am typing numbers exclusively, then it is the right, on the number pad. If I am typing letters interspersed with numbers then it depends where my hands are. I can touch type in a sense, meaning that I don't have to look at the keyboard while I am typing. However, my hands aren't fixed in one position, and which letter I hit with which hand is dependent on the runup of letters preceding and trailing it. My right hand occasionally ventures over and may type B, G, T or 6, while my left hand occasionally ventures over and hits N, H, Y or 7. It all depends on the circumstances.
I play piano, guitar and bass and I think my musical style follows through on the keyboard. I tend to look at words subconsciously and figure out the best pattern to type them, just as I look at a group of notes and dynamically determine what frets and strings would make a group of notes more fluid.
I would also liken it to playing pool. When you are a beginner, you just hope to get a ball in the pocket. When you get better, you are looking for how to set up the next shot.
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What do you mean? An African or European "6"?
Why don't split keyboards simply duplicate the border columns on both sides? This is the main reason i haven't bothered to buy one.
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No, I don't.
I use the F5 key all the goddamn time, mostly refresh/rerun/recompile
F5 is generally the left-most Function key of the second block, separated by a space from the F4 key. I use the F5 way, way more than I do the 6 key (which is over on the numpad).
I got a wireless Microsoft Sculpt ergo keyboard and while I love it, it's taken me a while to get used to the fact that the F5 key is not in the middle, I have to look for the F6 key, then go one to the left. After six months or so I'm used to it, but old habits die hard, and that visual cue between the F4 and F5 keys being gone was hard to get used to. To be fair Microsoft has the corresponding Function key above each number key, although that's dumb because anyone buying this keyboard is a touch-typist.
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The 6 key is on the left of the split and I like it that way. I use a split keyboard and game a lot, so the number of keys available to my left hand is important, because reaching across the divide means taking my hand off ESDF (or the mouse).
When I'm typing more than a few numbers, I use the numpad like a sane person.
On the MacBook keyboard the "6" is closer to the left index finger; using the right hand would be wrong here.
All the replies here mentioning the numpad are missing the point, as this is about touch-typing. If you take the time out to move your hand away from the home row you're not really touch-typing anymore, are you?
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You are better using the numeric pad. Guess how it can be an annoyance with laptops.
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On the Microsoft ergonomic keyboard the keys are about 1.5cm gap between..... sort of tells you what side it is technically suppose to be on on normal keyboards....
i had one - it was arm-rest mounted. there was only one space bar. i touch-type, so it would be like "rattle rattle rattle THUMP arse!.... rattle rattle THUMP".
no the weirdest thing i found was that because the keyboard was mounted on the arm rests, it was *outside* of my peripheral vision. it took three weeks to get used to, and i realised that at the time i clearly wasn't genuinely a touch-typist... because i had been using my peripheral vision to locate the keys! within three weeks i was back up to speed and accuracy.
yeahhh i loved that keyboard. the look on people's faces when they would come into my cubicle and see me with my feet up on the desk, 15in monitor 6 feet away in linux "console" mode at 80x60 resolution, happily using vi for programming at over 170wpm....
Those split keyboards with it on the left are fucked.
then I look at the keyboard and hit it with my right index finger.
The '6' key is the one key I, as a touch typist, fark up well over half the time.
I learned touch typing in school, but didn't really get to the numbers. I use the number pad as much as I can, but when I use the top row I will use left hand for 5 and below and usually but not always the right hand for higher numbers. The problem is that I never got the positions totally fixed in my muscle memory, so when typing anywhere from 5 to about 8 there's a good chance I'll do a little run up the keyboard till I find it (6, backspace, 7, backspace, 8, got it!).
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I press 6 with my left hand, but then I also usually press "Y" with my left hand as well.
There you go.
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6676767676767667 Apparently I use my left hand, I keep getting 7 with my right.
Why the fuck is this even on the front page?
2 American marines took out an armed gunman on a train in fucking France, and we're talking about which hand you press the 6 key with?
Dayum.
Of course. For those of us who are, shall we say, gifted, we don't even have to get out of our chair to hit the "6" key.
However, the fact that we have to type sans trousers makes us sort of unemployable but that's a decent trade-off.
I can also play five octaves of the C note simultaneously on my piano in this manner.
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As somebody that learned to type on an actual typewriter in 1983 (with real paper and dinging and such), it's the right hand. That's what the text book said.
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I primarily use a MS split keyboard at work and use my left hand. On conventionally-laid-out keyboards, I use my right hand since that's how I was taught in school.
I have a split Microsoft Wireless Natural at home (yes, a huge offense as a Linux-only user) and the 6 is on the left.
And at work (also Linux-only of course) I have some type of split Logitech and 6 is also on the left.
I am thinking left is probably right (pun intended).
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I wouldn't have known till I "shadow" typed it just now... but "6" is part of the core of my "often somewhat modified basic password"... Right hand always wins for me.
I can say that I use my left hand to press the 6 key. Since that is how the MS keyboard is setup. From the original white keyboard to the 4000 that I use now (and have gone through a few of those... Damn those cats spilling my drink into them!), that's the way it has always worked for me. And I've never really thought about it.
It does remind me of the time time that I saw somebody with the white original ergonomic keyboard shoved in their backpack when I was flying somewhere. This was when I had already started killing my MS 4000 keyboards. I'm killing keyboards, even when something isn't spilling liquids into mine. A key stops working, usually something I actually use (Esc, F1, A...)
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Personally I think split keyboards are extremely uncomfortable. I don't know why people prefer them to the old style.
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I did do touch typing in high school, but I have regressed long ago to looking while I type, so I hit y,b,h,g,6,7,5 keys with both hands.
Oh, and I popped the caps lock key off. Cuts down on errors.
but to answer the question, right.
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Right hand. And I'm left-handed (if that matters).
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Well, If there is a key there has to be a lock...
Seemingly silly question, but actually a nice one. I'm right-handed, and I guess it depends on which hand is closer, so no preference in particular. Looks like left hand is preferred, though.
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It depends on the program. The programs I need to input a lot of numbers, my right hand is on the keypad. The programs that need a lot of mouse input, it's the left hand that hits all the numbers.
The 6 and 'b' key get hit by my left and right probably equally. I do some "stupid" stuff when typing and that's one of them. Whatever hand is free tends to whack those keys. On the other side of the coin space bar is ONLY ever hit by my right hand. I've tried changing that habit before and I can't seem to shake it. I know it slows me down a bit (I'm at 105wpm usually) but whatever. I can live with it. You can see the wear mark on any keyboard I've had for years and I think it's funny.
I tend not to use keyboard with number pads after being on laptops for years as a consultant. I just got used to the less than 101 key designs so my penchant for punching 6 with either hand is just as strong as it is with 'b'.
Seriously, I don't know why, I'm a pretty fast typer. But for whatever reason, the middle finger on the right hand pushes six, and the middle finger on the left hand pushes five. o_O
These are split keyboards, and I've used them since 1.0, so I use my left hand. Isn't right-handed what they call "European style"?
Yeah, I had been using the right hand, but when I switched to MS split keyboards, they all have the 6 on the left side of the split, so I had to change. According to TFA, in the US, touch typing students are taught to use the right hand for 6; I learned to touch type in the US, so that must've been where I got it from.
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The useless part of the keyboard is the number pad. I want that space so that my arm isn't hanging so far out to reach my pointing device. But I'm not willing to gain more space in that area at the expense of high-usage cursor-movement keys, that's completely unacceptable. So feel free to drop the 6 entirely.
Depends which key came before the 6. Sorry, I learned to play piano years before I saw a typewriter. ... but it's fast."
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Why not both?!
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My touch typist teacher said RIGHT. Never considered the left.
... and being left-handed, I press ALL the numbers with my left hand, using the top row.
Because people who type all the time don't like to have their wrists twisted like they are wear handcuffs. I remember the first time I used a Hodgekiss keyboard (split and tilted up) my wrists were much, much happier in just a few minutes.
I never have to make such a difficult decision that way.
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I agree, but I think the reason for this is that the only thing they have do with "their" keyboards and mice is the MS logo on it.
Wrong. Microsoft Hardware developed the mice, keyboards and XBox. Since they make decent products, their jobs are now being cut.
the same thing that I use to ring the doorbell with when my hands are full.
My Microsoft Natural keyboard puts 6 on the left side, so left seems to be pretty standard here in the U.S. as I've had other split keyboards in the past and when I got this one I didn't notice anything weird....
On my current laptop, the number pad also gets used for the easy-to-reach versions of PageUp/PageDown/Home/End and one copy of the Delete Key. Very annoying when I accidentally hit the NumLock.
On my last N laptops, the NumPad means that the keyboard is not in the middle of the laptop, which makes typing uncomfortable and encourages my hands to get off-position, cramps my right shoulder and elbow, and encourages bad typing. Obviously that's not a problem with a separate keyboard like these guys are designing, but on separate keyboards I'd rather have them be smaller (so they fit easily in a rack or on a cluttered desk) or else have bigger typing keys.
The "NumPad Embedded In Keyboard" approach, typically at YUI/HJK/BNM or something similar, never bothered me as much, but then I almost never used it.
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Unfortunately, one of the features of their split keyboard is that you can fit the two halves together into a one-piece keyboard (which sometimes makes sense to do), and putting a 6 on both halves doesn't work well for that. Maybe if they could put a small, easily-removable extra 6 they could still do it, but that's getting messy.
The big problem with their keyboard? It's that "Mouse" key where the Control key belongs, next to the left pinky, where most current keyboards evilly put a Caps Lock. Having an on-keyboard mouse isn't a bad thing, but the control key is a big ergonomic lossage for most programmers with most keyboards.
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Most current keyboards have evilly put a nearly-useless CAPS LOCK KEY next to the A, where the CONTROL key belongs. This encourages awkward finger positions and hand strain, and ALMOST NOBODY NEEDS THE "YELL AT PEOPLE" FEATURE ANY MORE!
These guys did something interesting, putting a "Mouse" key there to shift some other keys to use for mouse functions, but it's a mistake; they could put that somewhere else and put the control key where it belongs.
Another feature they could implement, if they can license the patent at some non-outrageous price, is the "Half Keyboard" strategy, which lets you do single-handed typing by folding QWERT and YUIOP over in the middle - it either does the left or right half depending on whether you're hitting the mode key. Back when keyboards still used serial ports instead of USB, they made some small half-keyboards for Palm Pilots that were reasonably priced ($75-100), and some full-sized computer keyboards that were priced for the "Your Corporate Ergonomics Department Or Insurance Company Will Pay $400 For This" market, which were basically a standard keyboard with an extra shift that you could use either left-handed, right-handed, or both.
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worked as a 10 key operator at a bank long, long ago, in a life far away. I never shook the 10 key for data entry...anyone else here remember checks ?
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Both the 6 and the B keys belong on both sides of a split keyboard. It couldn't possibly cost more than another $1 and we can get back to fighting over real significant, intractable problems, like the Oxford comma.
It depends on which keys I need to press before and after.
But I've been using a Microsoft natural keyboard for 20 years.
Right Hand: Hold Alt Key
Left Hand: Type 54 on numeric keypad
I type all keys with left hand in order to be able to keep my right hand on the mouse, really fast!
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The decision is made for me by my dvorak layout.
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break keyboard in exactly in half, which side has the most '6' on it? this is the side that should have the 6
who cares how ppl were "taught" if the key is closer to one side than the other, then they were taught wrong
I was taught as a child to use the right hand. When you look at the diagonals that your fingers hit, it only makes sense to use the right hand (type "touch typing" in an image search). Additionally, then both index fingers only use two of the number keys instead of having 3 and 1. I have the same keyboard and it drives me nuts that they put it on the wrong side and made the 7 much larger.
A bent keyboard works well enough for me. When it's really split I get confused because some keys are ambidextrous for me. 6 is firmly right hand for me because it's above the Z -- in fact on soft keyboards (Android) it is the Z, so on a split keyboard my right index hits solid plastic. But I'd probably love a split keyboard with a giant trackball in the middle.
As a draftsman, I find myself using the Caps lock key quite a bit. Without it, I'd be sitting on the Shift key for pretty much of the day. No, the Caps lock key is quite useful, thank you very much.
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> the Z
The Z on German, Y on English keyboards.
... yeah okay so the picture shows that in their keyboard they're putting the 6 key a couple milometers one way versus the other... but it doesn't matter.
What is more the statement "in some countries people do X instead of Y"... in regards to pressing the six key with the right or left hand... no one gives a shit. People do either and both.
It varies very slightly from one keyboard to the next.
On mine for example... it appears to be so close to the middle that I can't really tell... I've looked at it a few times and it might be going right a bit... by maybe a millimeter. But I have no greater difficulty pressing that button with the right or left hand. So... effectively the middle.
This is silly. Who cares.
I mean, QWERTY itself is silly.
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First, I use the Dvorak layout, but this has no effect on the numbers. (It does affect the two keys between 0 and backspace though.) What really has a substantial impact is that I use a keyboard with no stagger. 6 is directly above F (you'd probably have a Y there unless you have a QWERTZ kezboard), which in turn is directly above D (you'd have H there). It's a right hand key, with no ambiguity whatsoever.
You might imagine it is difficult to get used to a matrix keyboard, that you'd have years of stagger-training to unlearn. This is not so, at least if it's set up properly. Practically everyone centers the keyboard, which means the alpha area where you do your actual typing is offset to the left. In this situation, a stagger is helpful. When you push the hands away from you to reach up the keyboard, you naturally drift a bit to the left because of this. Use a keyboard where the alphas are right in front of you (like a Happy Hacking Keyboard, or a TypeMatrix) and reaching directly back will seem as natural as reaching up and slightly left does now. It took me about an hour and a half to make the adjustment, and a minute or two each time I started working for the first few days. I also made one other substantial alteration to the standard Dvorak layout, moving the [ and ] keys into the modifier row to shorten the top row. This puts += back in its usual QWERTY position, but more importantly brings Backspace 3/4" closer. You can look at it here. I also split the spacebar (though both are still Space, no reassigning one to Backspace or anything like that), and rotated the two halves to run up and down the keyboard rather than across it. This allows the hands to rotate inward without forcing a long stretch with the thumb. You'll also see I juggled the modifiers -- eliminating Right Windows entirely, then swapping Control to be next to Alt. Let the rarely accessed Windows and AppsKey keys be the hard ones to reach. Control is just a tuck of the thumb (either thumb) away, assuming I even need it since I have a set of 29 dedicated Ctrl+something keys. They're also arranged in QWERTY order, dodging one of the annoyances of Dvorak, namely that it was invented before the Control key, and long before the current Ctrl-ZXCV "standard". Killing the stagger also reduces the other Dvorak nuisance, the long and awkward reach to L. Being able to rotate the hands inward increases the row-reach of the little finger as well.
Personally I find I can't live with a bunch of overlay modes. I need a full navigation cluster, and use the numeric keypad just enough to get frustrated once or twice a day if it's not there. My answer for that was to put the keypad on the left, which both centers the alphas in front of me and brings the mouse in closer. It would be nice to have a gutter between the numpad and the alphas, but that's not happening until I build my own keyboard.
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You remove your hand from your mouse, move it across your desk, just to hit a number? Then move it back to your mouse to continue working? Or are you just entering numbers for long amounts of time, like an accountant? Because the numeric pad is only useful for entering a lot of numbers, if you only need to enter "6", that seems like a waste of time and energy.
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I'll take a keyboard that omits Caps Lock wherever they put the 6.
No one's forcing you to use full caps, and I don't think it's wise to encourage removing it. Why should I have to pay for a special "programming keyboard" just to be able to do SQL?
I took a typing class in high school. All the books, and the teacher, said you use the LEFT pointer finger.
I guess if you're not a touch typist, it doesn't matter.
Having touch-typed for a fair time and diligently done my RSA courses back at school, I match fingers to keys pretty consistently. However, looking at this question made me spot a couple things and now I want to know if they're common for formal-ish typists too...
I get neither of these are particularly odd in themselves, but it is more that I have been doing this for over fifteen years, recognising only two or three letter combinations and mentally remapping, but never once noticed.
And typing this is a bit like listening to yourself breathing. It's actually going to drive me crazy.
That's still no reason to have it next to the A key. In the early days of computer keyboards, it was a regular-sized key stuck in a corner of the layout. It was only typewriters that had shift-lock (which shifted number keys too!) next to the A key, because it was mechanically simpler to implement. It also took some force to engage it, making it hard to hit by accident, unlike on computer keyboards, where the merest tap on the corner of the caps lock key is enough.
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What makes the CAPS LOCK key intolerable on computers is that it's not even named correctly. It's actually a "Case Reverse" key.
Unlike a mechanical typewriter where pressing the Shift key while CAPS LOCK was engaged did nothing and everything came out in caps which was usually ALL RIGHT, the computer key of that name causes everything to gO uPSIDE dOWN.
I try not to put my hand on the mouse as much as possible. Use keyboard shortcuts in place of mouse clicks, then the number pad is a lot closer and more effective.
What's worse is these notebook computers you get that have a couple of "international" keys. They split the left shift key in half and the enter key also has it's width reduced to make room for another key. It's so fucking annoying. I will never buy another laptop that has a keyboard like this. In the meantime, I use a key remapper app so that both halves of the shift key operate as shift.
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And, not surprisingly, the answer to the question is "yes". I also hit the space bar with either hand (right preference, though) and the keys in the middle - "6" and "b" are hit by whichever index finger happens to be free at the time it needs to be hit.
Do you have ESP?
it depends on what I'm doing with the other hand when I need to type the 6. Just there because I needed my right hand to do the period, it was near there and I moved the left hand to the 6. If I type 6seconds, though I will half the time use the right hand. I don't know if that is because of a bias to the right or left or one created by where my torso is at the time I type, though.
Presupposition about what a typist will do when they have done no formal training is silly. You are professing handedness as the only denominator, but posture, current use (if you're playing Quake and switching to the rocket...?) What if you're using WASD on Doom and need the rocket?
That's only on DOS/Windows, and I think Linux, too. The key works correctly on OS X.
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then it's over too fast. With my left it feels like some else is doing it.
Yeah, I was reading this wondering, who would put the numpad on the left side...
Then I understood.
"Because people who type all the time don't like to have their wrists twisted"
I use a regular(*) keyboard and my wrists are straight. In the home position, my index fingers are a bit more stretched than my pinky fingers to correct for the angle. I used a MS Natural keyboard around 1997, but I felt that it made my rsi issues worse. Learning about proper desk height and arm/wrist position helped much more, but back then it wasn't so common to have adjustable desks.
(*) Actually, I use a thinkpad keyboard with trackpoint, in Dvorak layout. I even attached an external thinkpad/trackpoint keyboard to my non-thinkpad docking station because I hate that hp elitebook keyboard.
Actually, i'm typing this with my right thumb on a 5-inch phone, in portrait mode... 6666... yep, right hand.
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right pinky on the pad or nose on the top row
If you're a lefty you don't have to let go of the mouse to use the numpad That said, a separate "number jack" keyboard makes more sense for a laptop.
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If you're using the number row for inputting numbers instead of 10-key touch you're a pleb and a n00b.
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Every plan reader in the world will rejoice the day you lunatics quit with the ALL CAPS.
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I have never, not even once, in all the time that PCs have had number pads, used the number pad to type a number. I use it for cursor control more than I use a mouse. As much as most people want to get rid of the CapsLock key, I want to get rid of the NumLock key.
I just wish laptop keyboards all had full size up and down arrows. Who needs those huge shift keys??
While hunting and pecking, I use whichever index finger is the closest.
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On windows its caps lock, there shift stops the lock. on linux its case-reversing.
If you need caps lock sometimes that's fine, it doesn't mean the key needs to take up ultra valuable real estate.
Left because I use the greatest cure for RSI I've ever found. The MS Natural Keyboard. With a normal keyboard my fingers are tingling after 2-3 minutes. With the split keyboard (MS original with rest raised) I can type for half an hour without a problem. I had to learn to hit the B and 6 keys with the left hand because I was using the right on the normal keyboard.
Whichever hand is not using the mouse or joystick.
Phones? What are they? 8-)
See subject & proof of me nuking you point by point http://tech.slashdot.org/comme...
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(We understand, Khyber - YOU can't HELP but FAIL... especially vs. "yours truly"... lol!)
APK
P.S.=> It's just "what you do/how you roll", lmao... apk
I generally hit it with my right hand... that's where the number pad lies. I'm not even sure that I use the top row of numbers more than a few times a day.
That said, I just tested out the top row and I reflexively used my left hand to hit the 6.
You remove your hand from your mouse, move it across your desk, just to hit a number?
I have my mouse on the left side, and I use the numpad and the nearby arrow keys with my right hand. It's really the perfect layout for gaming.
And I'm right handed. Using a mouse with my right hand gave me RSI, but not when I used it with the left hand.
Wrong. Microsoft Hardware developed the mice, keyboards and XBox. Since they make decent products, their jobs are now being cut.
Ugh. Not a fan of Windows, use Linux at home for most things... but I love the Microsoft Natural Keyboard. Sad news.
Maybe I should stock up.
Not that I'm a touch typist. That was a girls school subject when I was at school.
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