We all love you, shifty disco girl.

[venta]

Note 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 ?

Comments

[nisaba.livejournal.com]

I use the caps lock key, much as you do, and which shift I use is somewhat random, in keeping with the rest of my typing really.

Ever notice how, once you try to become aware of exactly how you type, your ability to type out a single word correct first time goes completely to pot?

I once saw a woman who would type every capital, ever, by turning caps lock on, hitting her one key, then turning it off again. She hadn't even discovered the left-hand shift key, it seems...

[lanfykins.livejournal.com]

Excuse me while I ponder how much of a bind that must be.

Um, Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers. A peck of pickled peppers, Peter Piper picked.

Actually, that's not as bad as I thought.

But still not a patch on that ol' shift key :)

[nisaba.livejournal.com]

Now try writing something with 'I' in it a lot, like an LJ entry :)