Den 14. april 2012 22:02, skrev [email protected]:
Do you have a weird keyboard, or do you have weird hands? :)
Whatever he has, I have it too :)
With my hands in resting position, Alt is just to the left of
where my thumb naturally rests on the spacebar. Super (AKA
'Windows') is just to the left of that, and Ctrl is just to the
left of that. Ctrl, Super and Alt are all approximately the same
size. With my hands in resting position, my left pinkie rests on
the 'A' key. If I move it down a fraction of an inch, it's on
left-shift, and if I move it down another fraction of an inch it's
on the left Ctrl key. Both are comfortable movements. This is on a
'pure' american-english keyboard - does yours have some extra keys
for Norwegian that change the layout?
No, with regards to the bottom right of the keyboard, it's all the same.
Most Norwegians have opposable thumbs though, and can't really use it
for typing. The only things I can use it for, is to access space, alt
and super. Is this different in America? :)
The point is that when I need to access the Alt key, I only move one
single finger. The left thumb. Nothing else moves a millimeter. I don't
lift my hand. I just move my thumb from resting on the space bar and to
the Alt-key. It's a very similar movement to pressing T. Certainly much
more comfortable than pressing Y.
So, when I press Alt, lean forward and look for it, I can see the tip of
my thumb between my middle and index fingers. I can type directly into
the HUD without stopping for even one second. So, when I'm typing, I
don't have to stop typing just in order to change fonts or something. I
just type "bold" as if it's part of the text, except my thumb hits the
Alt-key. So I've completely stopped using Ctrl+C. I now use Alt "kopi"
instead. It's much faster and much more comfortable. I can actually feel
the difference in my shoulders.
Super is also accessible the same way, though obviously not quite as
comfortably. I'd very much like to get a keyboard with a slightly
smaller space bar so that super and alt could be moved further to the
right. But without changing the layout radically, I see no way I would
ever be able to use Ctrl as comfortably.
-- Jo-Erlend Schinstad
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