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Don't use your pinkie or any finger. Use the meat of your hand to hit the control key.
by bryanlarsen 4mo ago
Don't use your pinkie or any finger. Use the meat of your hand to hit the control key.
- jcgrillo 4mo agoThis works especially well on an IBM Model M because there's nothing in the vicinity of either the left or right ctrl, you just chop your palm down and can't go wrong. I could also pretty reliably M-x in one hit by flipping my left hand over, curling my pinkie finger, and hitting the keys with the knuckles. On more crowded keyboards I remap ctrl:nocaps and use thumb and forefinger for M-x. I actually deliberately got rid of my Model M to teach myself to do it this objectively worse way, because context switching between my docked workstation setup and laptop keyboard on the go was difficult. If only someone would make a laptop with a proper keyboard...