Keyboard Capitalization

[Irish Caesar]

I think I tend to use my right index finger for the space.

I hadn't thought about it at all, though, until typing this.

 

[say1988]

Take a look at Colemak if you're actually interested in something else, it's about as efficient as Dvorak but easier to switch to from qwerty.

Actually a much bigger problem, even with switching just one key, is that I often use public computers at University and occasionally elsewhere as well as family ones, so I would have to be able to proficiently use both and be capable of switching. And using laptops I would have a hell of a time converting if my keys weren't labeled right.

I mainly use the left shift (in fact at rest my pinky sits there), but depending on what I am typing, I sometimes use the right one (primarily if I am entering a symbol on a number or typing slowly), but I don't use a standardized typing style, focusing on my index fingers with each subsequent finger getting used less, depending on the location of my index finger at the time, to I get to the pinkys, used only for shift, enter, backspace, and stuff like that.

Spacebar is split between my right thumb, right index finger, and left thumb, in that order. My right ring finger and pinky gets some use if I am using the touch pad extensively.

 

[general_kill]

Primarily the right shift key. I can use it to capitalize any letter.

 

[Zelig]

Actually a much bigger problem, even with switching just one key, is that I often use public computers at University and occasionally elsewhere as well as family ones, so I would have to be able to proficiently use both and be capable of switching.

Not impossible, I'm proficient on both QWERTY and Dvorak, I use both almost daily, and touch type on either one.

 

[MagisterCultuum]

What about the option of using the CAPS LOCK key instead of Shift?

 

[Defiant47]

What about the option of using the CAPS LOCK key instead of Shift?

I'm only interested in polling sane people

 

[say1988]

Not impossible, I'm proficient on both QWERTY and Dvorak, I use both almost daily, and touch type on either one.

No not impossible, just more effort than it is worth for me. Heck, I don't even type "properly" on a QWERTY, I am a weird cross between hunt and peck and touch typing. I have tried to learn the standard method, but then I start typing and stop thinking, I wind up typing like I normally do. I just don't type enough to be worth that much effort, either.

 

[Shylock]

I never use R-shift.

 

[Rub'Rum]

I don't understand why you'd want to use the right shift.

I have been trying to fight off a strange habit of mine. My left hand basically doesn't move much and is pretty good at typing, but it seems I barely use more than my index finger when it comes to my right hand. I can still type pretty fast but I gotta back-space relatively often. I'm not sure why I developed like this, maybe because I learned to type fast while playing old games, the first generation of games online, and always had to shift quickly to the mouse, and typing, and back to mouse (no voice chatting back then of course...). It seems that makes the hand more volatile, whereas the left hand always just sits there.