On: How to avoid the Emacs Pinky problem

[astrodust]

It's not nearly as easy on the notebook style keyboard with "Fn" in the corner, but with some finesse it's still popular. It's even better than using the key in the typical caps lock position as it's essentially zero fingers.

I normally use the top-left corner of my hand to slap the CTRL key down, a trick from RTS type games where you'd often have to do things like CTRL+1, CTRL+2, etc. Same trick applies in any editor making use of control.

[tammer → astrodust]

On laptops I use the my palm with the arrow keys - surprisingly, I'm just as accurate as when I curl my fingers/move my wrist on most models.