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flyingfences on Aug 22, 2018 | parent | context | favorite | on: The Workman Keyboard Layout Philosophy (2010)

> Presumably and primarily so that the letter key is always pressed using the same finger and position of the hand.

But it is. Hitting the left shift in the scenario described literally just takes pulling the left pinky down.

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