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I use caps-lock instead of shift. For example, I do "CAP-LOCK, LETTER, CAPS-LOCK" to type a capital letter. It's less efficient, yes, but it works just fine for
by josegonzalez 13y ago
I use caps-lock instead of shift. For example, I do "CAP-LOCK, LETTER, CAPS-LOCK" to type a capital letter. It's less efficient, yes, but it works just fine for me. Explaining this to anyone gets "you're kidding" views, but I assure you, the caps lock key is already quite useful to me.
- dragonwriter 13y agoKey sequences -- even though they may involve more strokes -- are simpler in some ways than chording, so I can see why that would be attractive.
- drifkin 13y agoIt's actually unclear whether it's less efficient or not. Sean Wrona, one of the fastest typists in various competitions, generally uses it in place of shift. He posts about it here: http://forum.colemak.com/viewtopic.php?pid=8851#p8851 http://forum.colemak.com/viewtopic.php?pid=8851#p8851
- userbinator 13y agoThe first thing to come to mind when I read the parent was Sean Wrona too... I use StickyKeys which lets me hit Shift and then a letter, which I think is even faster since you don't have to "un-shift" like you would with CapsLock.
- tokenrove 13y agoThe ergonomic considerations of what he proposes are a little terrifying to me.
- rquirk 13y agoOne of my work mates uses this technique too. I remap my caps to ctrl. Hilarity ensues whenever he tries to use my keyboard for pair programming.