On 19/10/08 03:27, bill lam wrote:
[...]
> I did not have any formal training in touch-typing, therefore curious
> in what is taught in classroom for how to type these modkeys.
>
Neither did I. I mostly use my right hand, using all of its five fingers
in whatever way seems most useful. Unlike self-styled "touch typists", I
don't fear moving my hand about over the keyboard, and I may hit the
same key with different fingers at different times depending on which
keys come before and after, or maybe together with it: for instance in
"ah" I may hit a with the index and h with the little finger, but in
"oh" it's o with the little finger and h with the index. It's only when
I have to press several extremely widely separated keys at the same time
that I use both hands: Ctrl-Alt-Del would be a good example, except that
on Linux I practically never use it (I have only one Alt key, just left
of the spacebar; the key just right of the spacebar, labeled "Alt Gr",
is used to produce non-ASCII characters when held together with a
"printable" key with or without Shift). OTOH even for | (which on my
keyboard is AltGr+unshifted-1) I use only the right hand: thumb on AltGr
and middle finger on 1 (and before you ask: yes, it helps that I have
big hands). Some of my "keychords" may seem even stranger than that: for
instance, for Ctrl-Alt-F2 (go to the 2nd text "virtual console",
/dev/tty2) I press Alt with my right thumb, Ctrl with my right index
finger, then I press F2 with my right ring finger...
I believe there is one "golden rule" about which finger to use when for
which key: do whatever suits you best.
Best regards,
Tony.
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