<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div><div>On Feb 19, 2009, at 9:25 AM, Rick DeNatale wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Feb 19, 2009 at 4:07 AM, Scott Haneda <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:talklists@newgeo.com">talklists@newgeo.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> Keyboard shortcuts and what fingers?<br> ...<br> "Control Shift <" is is a good example. I am using thumb on control<br> and ring on shift, then the right hand for the less than. This is a<br> bit of a stretch, and probably will be bad over time. Maybe index on<br> control and middle on shift would be better? That combo them requires<br> me to move my entire wrist down to hit it, which I wh</blockquote><div><br>I find pinky on control, ring finger on shift very comfortable on the external apple keyboard, just a slight shift of the left hand from home position.<br> <br></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Same here, it seems the most natural combination. In fact my pinky always takes the control key. Then ring finger is either shift or option. For control-shift-option, my ring finger takes the shift key and my middle finger handles option. I think its just a matter of letting your hand try the keystroke and see where it ends up. Try not to use your brain for these simple tasks. :)</div></div><br><div><br></div></body></html>