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.

  • @Kimcha87
    2•2 years ago

    I tried shift on the thumbs, but didn’t like it.

    I am using homerow mod shift. If you are on zmk try urob’s timeless homerow mods:

    https://lemmy.world/post/206636

    Another alternative to try would be one-shot-shift. Instead of holding the shift key while typing the letter you want to shift, you would tap the shift key once and then tap the key you want to shift.

    After that one key press the keyboard goes back to typing unshifted characters.

    I haven’t been able to try this, because my keyboard doesn’t have the 6th column with the shift key.

    But I’ll try it on my next build.