Yeah I gotta bad shifting habit for sure that hurts my fingers when I do it. What I do is use the right shift key to activate the special characters in the number row on the top of the keyboard. I use the same hand to press both keys, pressing the shift key with my ring finger and the number keys with my index or middle fingers. This really puts hurts my ringer finger as it has to reach down low. I believe what should be done is that the left shift key should be pressed with the left hand but only used when using number keys on the right which should be pressed with the right hand. While the right shift key should be pressed with the right hand but only used when accessing number keys on the left which should be pressed with the left hand.

I would also like to mention that the Home and End keys on a keyboard really ought to be place right above the left and right arrow keys on a keyboard. One other thing that I want to try is pressing the back space key with my right hand’s pinky finger instead of the ring finger and see how much less strain it puts on that finger.

Bad typing habits really don’t appear until your hands start to hurt during long typing sessions.

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