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Nov. 24th, 2004 10:47 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
ventaNote to self: There is a shift key on the right of the keyboard. Look, it's quite big, just below the enter key. You should consider using it.
Because, you see, I don't. I use the left-hand-side shift key pretty much exclusively. Obviously, if the key I'm shifting is on the LHS of the keyboard, this can involve twisting my wrist round awkwardly. If I do it too much (as I seem to have done in the last 24 hours) I end up with quite a painful sensation in the outside of my wrist.
Does anyone have a deliberate policy (or know what their accidental policy is) on shift-key use ? When do you use right or left ?
If you were typing a long string of caps JUST LIKE THIS, how would you do it ? When someone noticed a while back that I occasionally use capslock for this kind of thing there were howls of disgust and derision as if I'd been caught out shagging a donkey, or somesuch. Do you ever use capslock ? Is there an optimal length of a string of letters at which it becomes "worth it" to use the capslock key ?
Further note to self: Hey, there's a Control key over on the right, too! Who'd have thought it ?
Because, you see, I don't. I use the left-hand-side shift key pretty much exclusively. Obviously, if the key I'm shifting is on the LHS of the keyboard, this can involve twisting my wrist round awkwardly. If I do it too much (as I seem to have done in the last 24 hours) I end up with quite a painful sensation in the outside of my wrist.
Does anyone have a deliberate policy (or know what their accidental policy is) on shift-key use ? When do you use right or left ?
If you were typing a long string of caps JUST LIKE THIS, how would you do it ? When someone noticed a while back that I occasionally use capslock for this kind of thing there were howls of disgust and derision as if I'd been caught out shagging a donkey, or somesuch. Do you ever use capslock ? Is there an optimal length of a string of letters at which it becomes "worth it" to use the capslock key ?
Further note to self: Hey, there's a Control key over on the right, too! Who'd have thought it ?
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Date: 2004-11-24 03:05 am (UTC)RHS is my default. I almost never use LHS. Nor do I get any painful sensations as a result.
When I'm TYPING A SENTENCE ALL IN CAPS I just automatically shift my hand over slightly to compensate. This is pretty much always faster than trying to remember where the CAPS LOCK key is, so unless I'm likely to get cramp in my hand while tying something very long I don't bother.
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Date: 2004-11-24 03:10 am (UTC)That may be more to do with our respective physiologies than our typing methodologies - after all, you can use a mouse without getting painful sensations, I believe :)
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Date: 2004-11-24 03:27 am (UTC)Having said all of which, my extensive investigations into how I shift and why have conspired to make my right pinky ache ;)
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Date: 2004-11-24 03:29 am (UTC)