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Does anyone ever use Caps Lock? It seems like such a waste of space.
by rb808 7y ago
Does anyone ever use Caps Lock? It seems like such a waste of space.
- ygra 7y agoI've seen quite a few people that, either or of habit or due to it being less error-prone to type for them, use Caps Lock for typing capital letters. Instead of Shift+letter, they'd type Caps, letter, Caps. One keystroke more, but no two keys held at the same time, which is difficult for some people. I'm sure there are superior accessibility options, but those have to be found first, whereas Caps Lock just works the same everywhere.
- jandrese 7y agoIsn't that what StickyKeys is for?
- ygra 7y agoYes, as noted, there are accessibility options for that, but that's possibly not an option, depending on how locked-down the PC is the people are working on (one person I've seen this doing was at the ticket counter in a train station; I'm not even sure whether they still had their DOS-based system back then). People tend to use an option they know over one that may be objectively better that they don't know ;-)
- klez 7y agoBut why should I use a non-default setting when I have a key right there on the keyboard for that very purpose?
- falcolas 7y agoIIRC, super fast typists will use it, since it’s a complete key cycle and not a chord. Apparently at those speeds, a key press is easier to properly execute than a chord.
- klez 7y agoI do. If I need to type a full word, all uppercase (e.g. the name of a constant) or simply more than one uppercase letter I'll use caps lock, because it allows me to keep touch typing without having to change the hand that keeps shift pressed. I never understood why people seem to be against caps lock, to be fair.
- RandallBrown 7y agoI've never had a problem touch typing while my pinky is holding down the shift key. I type kinda weird though. I don't use the right shift key at all. Only the left one.
- geerlingguy 7y agoI do that too, though overall typing speed is a little slower. It seems like it could be easy enough to do some sort of 'double-tap shift to go into caps lock' mode like the iOS default keyboard does.
- klez 7y agoOk, but then you have to type an A with your left ring finger instead of using your pinky. Doesn't it slow you down? I'm asking because I never got in that habit and religiously kept using the finger "assigned" to each key.
- celeritascelery 7y agoI do the same thing (only use left shift). I have gotten really good at typing with using the ring finger for the far left row. Doesn’t seem to be any slower.
- Koshkin 7y agoIt is the most often pressed key when coding in Oberon.
- CmdrKrool 7y agoOf course! I press it before starting to type a sentence that needs a lot of lowercase letters (like this one), before toggling it back to normal at the end. (On my keyboard, the key caps are all printed with uppercase letters.)
- skocznymroczny 7y agoIt's very useful when arguing with people online.