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Which shift key do you use?
« on: November 08, 2006, 10:10:24 pm »
I personally use just the left shift key. I can't recall a time when I actually use my right one.

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I'd bet that you're currently bloated like a water ballon on a hot summer's day.

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Re: Which shift key do you use?
« Reply #1 on: November 08, 2006, 10:11:38 pm »
Right.

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Re: Which shift key do you use?
« Reply #2 on: November 08, 2006, 10:14:03 pm »
Right.  I use left periodically, but it sounds funny. 

The proper way is to use both, depending on which letter you're capitalizing. 

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Re: Which shift key do you use?
« Reply #3 on: November 08, 2006, 10:19:53 pm »
I use the right. I hug the tab key with my left pinky, so it's toucing the plastic on the key board, and the side of the key. I just use my right finger more with backspace and stuff, so it's easier.

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Re: Which shift key do you use?
« Reply #4 on: November 08, 2006, 10:20:38 pm »
well this is interesting.......... I use my left most of the time.

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Re: Which shift key do you use?
« Reply #5 on: November 08, 2006, 10:56:37 pm »
I use the left shift key for capitalization. Only the left shift key.
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Re: Which shift key do you use?
« Reply #6 on: November 08, 2006, 11:00:47 pm »
I just expiramented a little bit. I always seem to use left. After attempting to use the right, I realized I can't do it! :P

Right.  I use left periodically, but it sounds funny. 

The proper way is to use both, depending on which letter you're capitalizing. 

Another weird question: Does anyone here type properly? :P
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Re: Which shift key do you use?
« Reply #7 on: November 08, 2006, 11:01:34 pm »
Is there a time that I prefer the use the left shift key over my right?  Yes, when I'm typing a letter or character with my right hand.  For instance, when I type a question mark, I'll use the left shift key because I'm using my pinky for the ?.  However, if the key is sufficiently far away from the right shift key, I'll use my left.

Below is a complete list of characters that I type with each given finger:
Right shift: QWERTASDFGHZXCVB!@#$%^~
Left shift: YUIOP{}|JKL:"NM<>?&*()_+

I think it's because I actually type like I was taught in school.  Who knows?
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Re: Which shift key do you use?
« Reply #8 on: November 08, 2006, 11:02:01 pm »
I Believe That I use my left.............I tried with my right, it just doesn't work so well

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Re: Which shift key do you use?
« Reply #9 on: November 08, 2006, 11:02:51 pm »
Is there a time that I prefer the use the left shift key over my right?  Yes, when I'm typing a letter or character with my right hand.  For instance, when I type a question mark, I'll use the left shift key because I'm using my pinky for the ?.  However, if the key is sufficiently far away from the right shift key, I'll use my left.

Below is a complete list of characters that I type with each given finger:
Right shift: QWERTASDFGHZXCVB!@#$%^~
Left shift: YUIOP{}|JKL:"NM<>?&*()_+

I think it's because I actually type like I was taught in school.  Who knows?
Yeah, that's the proper way.  I actually remove my hand from home-row to do ?, which is really bad.  I really should force myself to type properly. :/

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Re: Which shift key do you use?
« Reply #10 on: November 08, 2006, 11:04:13 pm »
Is there a time that I prefer the use the left shift key over my right?  Yes, when I'm typing a letter or character with my right hand.  For instance, when I type a question mark, I'll use the left shift key because I'm using my pinky for the ?.  However, if the key is sufficiently far away from the right shift key, I'll use my left.

Below is a complete list of characters that I type with each given finger:
Right shift: QWERTASDFGHZXCVB!@#$%^~
Left shift: YUIOP{}|JKL:"NM<>?&*()_+

I think it's because I actually type like I was taught in school.  Who knows?
Yeah, that's the proper way.  I actually remove my hand from home-row to do ?, which is really bad.  I really should force myself to type properly. :/
I'm surprised that a lot of people say they use their left.  I personally actually go between either hand to type I capital as well as parentheses, but apparently only because I type them so much.  Other combinations on my right hand feel unnatural.
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Re: Which shift key do you use?
« Reply #11 on: November 08, 2006, 11:12:52 pm »
I use both.. Like MyndFyre, it depends where I'm typing.  However, since most letters I end up having to capitalize/use shift on are on the right-hand side of my keyboard, I use the left shift key more.  If you'll notice, every capitalized letter/character you'd have to use shift to obtain has been on the right hand side of my keyboard.  Hah.
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Re: Which shift key do you use?
« Reply #12 on: November 08, 2006, 11:15:38 pm »
I use both.. Like MyndFyre, it depends where I'm typing.  However, since most letters I end up having to capitalize/use shift on are on the right-hand side of my keyboard, I use the left shift key more.  If you'll notice, every capitalized letter/character you'd have to use shift to obtain has been on the right hand side of my keyboard. Hah.
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Re: Which shift key do you use?
« Reply #13 on: November 08, 2006, 11:28:55 pm »
I use the right one, all the time. I thought it would depend on the letter I was capitalizing but after a bit of expirimentation I realized that I always use the right. And always with my ring finger too... I don't use my right pinky at all.
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Re: Which shift key do you use?
« Reply #14 on: November 08, 2006, 11:47:13 pm »
Left shif key. I use the right one to do like... punctuation and emotes?
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Re: Which shift key do you use?
« Reply #15 on: November 09, 2006, 12:05:59 am »
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Re: Which shift key do you use?
« Reply #16 on: November 09, 2006, 01:33:14 am »
I only use the right shift key.  On average I type at 210 WPM, ~99% accurately.   8)

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Re: Which shift key do you use?
« Reply #17 on: November 09, 2006, 01:34:50 am »
I only use the right shift key.  On average I type at 210 WPM, ~99% accurately.   8)
Typing the word "a" 210 times in a minute doesn't count. :)
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Re: Which shift key do you use?
« Reply #18 on: November 09, 2006, 01:47:18 am »
I used both, hooray.
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Re: Which shift key do you use?
« Reply #19 on: November 09, 2006, 01:48:42 am »
I only use the right shift key.  On average I type at 210 WPM, ~99% accurately.   8)

210? I only type ~130 average. :/
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I'd bet that you're currently bloated like a water ballon on a hot summer's day.

That analogy doesn't even make sense.  Why would a water balloon be especially bloated on a hot summer's day? For your sake, I hope there wasn't too much logic testing on your LSAT. 

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Re: Which shift key do you use?
« Reply #20 on: November 09, 2006, 03:34:43 am »
I only use the right shift key.  On average I type at 210 WPM, ~99% accurately.   8)

210? I only type ~130 average. :/

Heh, agreed.  People are really impressed when I tell them that my latest rated typing speed was about 150wpm.  I typically don't worry about accuracy so much because almost always my inaccuracies stem from misspellings, which I can usually feel and automatically correct (for instance, I don't need to see a monitor to know that I've misspelled a word). 
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Re: Which shift key do you use?
« Reply #21 on: November 09, 2006, 06:46:10 am »
I type correctly with my left hand and chicken peck with my right (occasionally I use my right middle finger, and sometimes my thumb for space, but that's it).

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Re: Which shift key do you use?
« Reply #22 on: November 09, 2006, 08:21:18 am »
Heh, agreed.  People are really impressed when I tell them that my latest rated typing speed was about 150wpm.  I typically don't worry about accuracy so much because almost always my inaccuracies stem from misspellings, which I can usually feel and automatically correct (for instance, I don't need to see a monitor to know that I've misspelled a word). 
I'm the same way, I know that I've misspelled a word as soon as I type it, although I don't necessarily know what I did wrong, and I generally need a monitor to fix it.

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Re: Which shift key do you use?
« Reply #23 on: November 09, 2006, 09:49:15 am »
Hahah.  In biology we were writing papers, and we were using laptops (lack of ergonomic..ness.. kills me).  I ended up typing "happenes" instead of "happens" because I was rushing, and because laptops hate me with their small keys that you have to barely tap to press.
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Re: Which shift key do you use?
« Reply #24 on: November 09, 2006, 07:59:24 pm »
I can type 175 wpm, usually high-nineties accuracy. I had to, to get my computer  :P.
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Re: Which shift key do you use?
« Reply #25 on: November 09, 2006, 08:21:58 pm »
175 miles per hour?!  HOLY SHIT! :P

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Re: Which shift key do you use?
« Reply #26 on: November 09, 2006, 08:37:20 pm »
I just did an online test, since I haven't done one since junior high, and apparently I can type at 95wpm without making mistakes.

However, I think at significantly below 95wpm, so unless I'm transcribing it's a pretty useless statistic.

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« Reply #27 on: November 09, 2006, 08:48:30 pm »
175 miles per hour?!  HOLY SHIT! :P

Better ways to inform me of a typo!  :)
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Re: Which shift key do you use?
« Reply #28 on: November 09, 2006, 10:51:14 pm »
However, I think at significantly below 95wpm
Likewise. Typing any faster than I do already would not be useful for anything. Except for maybe getting in the message I was typing where it was relevant, rather than after two or three unrelated ones go by like when talking to certain people who type much faster than I. *points at newby*
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Re: Which shift key do you use?
« Reply #29 on: November 09, 2006, 11:46:49 pm »
I use both, but more of the left one.

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Re: Which shift key do you use?
« Reply #30 on: November 09, 2006, 11:57:39 pm »
I can type 175 wph, usually high-nineties accuracy. I had to, to get my computer  :P.

I type ~6000 wph, but I don't think I've ever been in the position to type for a whole hour.
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Re: Which shift key do you use?
« Reply #31 on: November 10, 2006, 12:52:10 am »
I can type 175 wph, usually high-nineties accuracy. I had to, to get my computer  :P.

I type ~6000 wph, but I don't think I've ever been in the position to type for a whole hour.
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Re: Which shift key do you use?
« Reply #32 on: November 10, 2006, 01:03:45 am »
Fuck all of you.  :'(
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Re: Which shift key do you use?
« Reply #33 on: November 10, 2006, 01:11:33 am »
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Re: Which shift key do you use?
« Reply #34 on: November 10, 2006, 09:22:41 am »
I think significantly faster than I type, so eh?

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Re: Which shift key do you use?
« Reply #35 on: November 14, 2006, 10:56:51 pm »
It's hard for me to type properly 'cause I like streaching out my fingers. Also my ring fingers seem to be usless. Also I'm beginning to wonder: what hand presses the "B" key?

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Re: Which shift key do you use?
« Reply #36 on: November 14, 2006, 11:06:54 pm »
I use left shift. This might mainly be because my computer is a laptop and i use my right hand to use the touchpad. I'm right handed, otherwise that logic would be faulty being that the touchpad is off center towards the left side of the computer centered under the main part of the qwerty keyboard. (My laptop has a keypad on the right side of the computer.)
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Re: Which shift key do you use?
« Reply #37 on: November 14, 2006, 11:49:46 pm »
I'm not sure I've ever touched the right shift key on my keyboard. I can't type numbers.

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Re: Which shift key do you use?
« Reply #38 on: November 15, 2006, 06:23:23 pm »
WHAT IS A SHIFT KEY?
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Re: Which shift key do you use?
« Reply #39 on: November 15, 2006, 06:47:49 pm »
WHAT IS A SHIFT KEY?
It's what you used to make that question mark :P!
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Re: Which shift key do you use?
« Reply #40 on: November 15, 2006, 06:56:48 pm »
He clearly used the character map to get the question mark.

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« Reply #41 on: November 15, 2006, 07:03:09 pm »
YEA I USED A CHARACTER MAP SILLY ERGOT.
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Re: Which shift key do you use?
« Reply #42 on: November 15, 2006, 07:12:11 pm »
YEA I USED A CHARACTER MAP SILLY ERGOT.

Well for that you just used caps lock.
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