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Right shift has gotta be my least used key. I actually don't know if I've used it more than like 10 times in my life

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Only if I need to type a capital letter with one hand

Nope. I use left shift for everything.

Even if you do use both shift keys correctly, it still feels awkward to me since you have to sacrifice a pinky from home row and shift your hands.

It's why I've been curious to try a layout where Shift and Alt are swapped, that way you can use your thumb to press shift and keep your fingers in place.

https://colemakmods.github.io/ergonomic-mods/modifiers

Left shift only works for games

Right shift is for typing

yes - ctrl + shift ) splits the kde konsole

My keyboard has two shift keys. I don't think I've ever used the right shift key, not even for usage with emulators for consoles with a lot of buttons... the modifier is always the left shift key since it's closest to my left hand and I can have my right hand on the other side where the arrow keys are. The arrow keys, WASD, Z, X, A, S, Q,W, 1, 2 etc have always been sufficient for most games.

Which one is the wrong one?

I have literally only ever used the right shift key when playing, like, two different games. Both were simulations with insane amounts of controls. One is ARMA, and the other was a flight sim.

I used it because it had a function bound to it that wasn't on the left shift.

Edit: Oh and I think there was a pinball game on DOS that used both shift keys to operate the flippers.

I had to type a bit to check, but found that I mostly use the right shift if the letter I'm capitalizing is on the left side of the keyboard. Oddly, it wasn't 100% though.

I rebound it, I never use it

Yes, but not as often as the left.

While touch typing, I pretty much always use the left shift key. To type "A" for example I slid my hand over one set of keys and pressed the A key with my ring finger. Right shift ends up used mostly with the punctuation marks to the right, like I actually move my entire right hand down to hit shift and ?

I also strike T, Y and B with different hands depending on what I'm typing.

There may be some other eccentricities but I do mostly touch type properly, asdfjkl; and all that.

only for keybinds that use shift and some other keys that are a little to far away from Lshift on my keyboard.

I only use it when I have food in one hand and can't reach the desired key + left shift with my other hand.

Yes, but I don't use the right control key.

I also don't use the right alt key, except for keyboards where I don't have a menu key, and don't use it as alt in that case. In both cases, I bind that to Compose.

I use it to wake my computer up when the display is off.

yep when game controls wasn t with wasd u have to use arrow keys to move the player

My brain refuses to remember that they there are any utility keys below the enter on a US keyboard. The right pinky moves over and up, never down. I also never hit the spacebar with my right hand.

I never formally learned to type, I just picked it up because my hands have been glued to keyboards since the 80s.

So, everyone who said "no" never learned how to type or what?

Yes, ofc! I have it switched to the up-arrow on my 60%.
Otherwise no.

Never. I exclusively use my left thumb for the space bar, too.

I could probably type faster if I fixed those issues, but 30 years of bad habits die hard.

Yes, when doing Ctrl+Insert to copy then Shift+Insert to paste

Yeah, pretty sure i use it for capitalising symbols on the right of the keyboard.

In fact, i think i might use it for some of the symbols above the numbers, too.

I need to get in front of a keyboard and find out.

Constantly, but only at work. I use it for ? and that's it.

Yup, because I re-map WASD to my arrows and the right shift is near there.

Yes, sometimes, on one of my keyboards the left one doesn’t work for some weird software related reason

No, never. My keyboard doesn't even have one (40%)