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[Evan Huus <eapache@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Sat, Apr 14, 2012 at 3:23 PM, Jo-Erlend Schinstad <
joerlend.schinstad@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Den 14. april 2012 20:25, skrev Josh Strawbridge:
>
>
>>
>> i use my little/small/pinkie finger to hit ctrl.  i find it much more
>> comfortable than hitting alt with my thumb. i've never found alt to be a
>> comfortable reach.
>> --
>>
>>
> I tried to understand how that's possible, but it's a little bit
> difficult. When I have my hands in the resting position, my left thumb is
> about one inch from the left alt-key. I would've preferred it to be a
> little to the right, at the cost of a slightly smaller space bar, but it's
> still easily accessible to me. At the very least, it's much more
> comfortable than the Ctrl-key, which requires me to lift my arm or twist my
> hand.
>
> Do you have a weird keyboard, or do you have weird hands? :)
>

Whatever he has, I have it too :)

With my hands in resting position, Alt is just to the left of where my
thumb naturally rests on the spacebar. Super (AKA 'Windows') is just to the
left of that, and Ctrl is just to the left of that. Ctrl, Super and Alt are
all approximately the same size. With my hands in resting position, my left
pinkie rests on the 'A' key. If I move it down a fraction of an inch, it's
on left-shift, and if I move it down another fraction of an inch it's on
the left Ctrl key. Both are comfortable movements. This is on a 'pure'
american-english keyboard - does yours have some extra keys for Norwegian
that change the layout?

Evan