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0 pointsnocman9y ago0 comments

"Did you try it with one hand or two."

^^ was this supposed to be a joke? (I laughed at first when I thought you meant stretching the left hand between the left CTRL key and the [ :-D ).

I guess I could see someone trying to type it one-handed with their right hand, but I would have never even have thought to do that (and I don't know that I ever use the right CTRL key anyway).

Outside of the CTRL keys, I touch type pretty much everything normally, with very few exceptions (like using my ring finger on Escape). I find moving my right pinky to the right CTRL key to be very uncomfortable, so I just always use the left CTRL key.

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u801e9y ago

> I guess I could see someone trying to type it one-handed with their right hand

That's exactly what I was thinking of. Years ago, I used to press key combinations like ctrl-c, ctrl-x by moving my left hand away from the home row and using my pinky on the ctrl key and my index finger on the c or x key. I thought you may have been doing something like taking your right hand off the home row and pressing the key combination with your thumb and index finger.

But I do find that using the modifier key on the opposite side of the keyboard requires less contortion for a given key combination (e.g., the shift-v or ctrl-v combinations for linewise or blockwise visual mode).

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