No they don't have to be there. Their positions are because of history and 10 finger typing. It make sense, if you actually are able to type blindly with 10 fin

No they don't have to be there. Their positions are because of history and 10 finger typing. It make sense, if you actually are able to type blindly with 10 fingers. If I do that, I find it convenient to use ma small finger to press shift. There are also different keyboard layouts, like Dvorak or some other I can't remember. Among them are layouts that enable you to type faster than the qwerty/qwertz layout, we used to. Just googled it: https://www.daskeyboard.com/blog/qwerty-vs-dvorak-vs-colemak-keyboard-layouts/ https://www.daskeyboard.com/blog/qwerty-vs-dvorak-vs-colemak... But. They all have theirs shifts on the same place like now. I also saw a customizable keyboard somewhere, where you can put the keys to wherever you want them to be physically. So, may be it's just how you type, or, how you used to type. Not like, it is intended to type on such keyboard layouts? Have you ever learned to type 10 fingers? I learned it, but I hate it. I mostly use my right hand to type blindly. Therefore, the shift's are good where they are now for me (-> my patented EST SYSTEM: eagle search typing system haha. It's like that, but from a bigger distance https://tenor.com/de/view/twin-peaks-old-people-typing-one-finger-typing-technology-out-of-touch-gif-9186182 https://tenor.com/de/view/twin-peaks-old-people-typing-one-f...)