I’m thinking of switching my thumb keys (currently space and enter and two of them go to a symbols layer) to shift. I find that shift makes me anxious when typing because i have to partially leave the home row, and as a result my pinky placement when typing is bad, my ring finger tends to take over and my pinky has become a mod presser and not a typing finger.

I have tried to overload the home row keys as modifiers but that is a huge mistake as it causes misfires or takes TOO LONG to aviate, there is no middle ground with that one.

  • nonagoninf
    2•2 years ago

    I have tried to overload the home row keys as modifiers but that is a huge mistake as it causes misfires or takes TOO LONG to aviate, there is no middle ground with that one.

    Did you try bilateral combinations? They reduced accidental misfires to almost zero for me:

    https://getreuer.info/posts/keyboards/achordion/index.html

    • @yanma
      1•2 years ago

      I use it for shift, and I like it so much more, because pinky would be overworked otherwise. However I use Flactyl and it has a ton of thumb keys, so your milage may vary if you do not have enough keys.