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...Your natural hand resting position is L-Shift, A, W, D, [SPACE].
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I wonder if it is more that those keys were chosen (on a US/UK keyboard, anyway) due to the natural resting position of the left hand.... 
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I wonder if it is more that those keys were chosen (on a US/UK keyboard, anyway) due to the natural resting position of the left hand....
I don't know about you but my mum and sister have often commented on this.
They both use computers for various tasks at their jobs, and they have a very different resting position. [blah]
Robert Maynard
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Are either of them trained typists?
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Might be... I'm guessing that's a thing?
Wouldn't know because I haven't been trained in anything except informal horse-care.
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I still have the old school habit of using the cursor keys rather than WASD...but then again...my gaming keyboard has the letters WASD on the cursor keys too
Ha! Brilliant.
I still have the old school habit of using the cursor keys rather than WASD...but then again...my gaming keyboard has the letters WASD on the cursor keys too
Hehe, I tried resisting wasd+mouse for way too long, wolfenstein/catacombs style arrow keys should have remained the dominant style if you ask me.
Hehe, I tried resisting wasd+mouse for way too long, wolfenstein/catacombs style arrow keys should have remained the dominant style if you ask me.
Why?
Nostalgia is the only reason that occurs to me.
Hehe, I tried resisting wasd+mouse for way too long, wolfenstein/catacombs style arrow keys should have remained the dominant style if you ask me.
Why?
Agree with Caramel Clown here, probably all of us old timers
started with arrows, but using wasd you simply have more additional keys available at fingertips, not counting the fact that true 3d engines made mouse free-looking actually relevant. I made the transition around the Quake-Q2 times, I actually went halfway through Quake 2 still using arrows+pgup/pgdown, before realizing that mouse was far more efficient at aiming above or below my level. Looking back now, I've no idea how I made it that far.
Speaking as someone who took a touch typing class in college, ASDF is the more natural left hand resting place for me. Comes in handy in VR for when I have to type something. I don't have to lift up the visor to find home row.
Maybe it's a heresy, but I'm actually not using WASD. And no, don't worry, I'm not using arrows either.
Since I started playing SWTOR, where you need a lot of keys, I acutally got used to ESFD. I have a keyboard with a short left Shift with a "" key between it and Z.
Using ESDF as movement keys gives you one extra column of available keys for your ring and little finger, and makes more number keys easily accessible.
I know, I'm weird...
Since I started playing SWTOR, where you need a lot of keys, I acutally got used to ESFD. I have a keyboard with a short left Shift with a "" key between it and Z.
Using ESDF as movement keys gives you one extra column of available keys for your ring and little finger, and makes more number keys easily accessible.
I know, I'm weird...
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I remember that being a thing in some old games, couldn't remember the titles. Worst control scheme known to humanity
Agree with Caramel Clown here, probably all of us old timers
Quake 2 was when I shifted to mouse look (that and Tribes 2)...still used the cursor keys and the CTRL/shift/Ins/Del for the essentials on the left hand. It was Q2 and Tribes that introduced me to the wonders of circle strafing [haha]
Fun times [yesnod]