Please don't ignore wrist pain. If your behavior doesn't change the pain will not get better and can get much worse. When I used a traditional keyboard layout.

Please don't ignore wrist pain. If your behavior doesn't change the pain will not get better and can get much worse. When I used a traditional keyboard layout. I bound the key immediately to the left and right of space as control. Similar to the space-cadet keyboard: http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/47/Space-cadet.jpg http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/47/Space-cad... This allows you to use the relatively strong thumbs to activate the commonly used ctrl key. I now use a Kinesis advantage pro which similarly allows the thumbs to activate many commonly used keys.