Which finger do you use to press the "C" key (QWERTY)?

[faceyourfaces]

The correct way is using your middle finger but I've found it a lot more comfortable to type with my index finger.

[paicrai]

index or thumb

[FoxWolf1]

Thumb.

[tp4tissue]

index..

for  thumb, you have to move your thumb inwards and raise your wrist slightly,  that is a very difficult movement.

[demik]

palm

[Puddsy]

Index master race

[BlueNalgene]

People use their thumb to press it? While typing?  You lot are mad.

Middle finger.

[paicrai]

Middle finger.

someone bring this creature in for autopsy at area 51

[BlueNalgene]

Middle finger.

someone bring this creature in for autopsy at area 51

I'm a lefty and my hands are impressively broad.

Quarter for scale

[Puddsy]

I can palm a basketball, so I guess my hands are pretty big too.

[Grim Fandango]

It is one of the two ways in which my touch typing differs from the standard/correct way. I use my index finger to type "C". Though to be honest, I think it is just as fast and possibly a little more comfortable.

[IvanIvanovich]

**** 'proper'. I do whats comfortable for me.

[TacticalCoder]

Middle finger. Works fine for both staggered and matrix layout. A secretary taught me to touch-type many years ago: I asked her to teach me because she beat me fair and square at a typing contest between the two of us (I was already typing since easily 15 years and thought I was fast... She beat me and so I decided to learn to type correctly and asked her to teach me).

[noisyturtle]

pointer or middle finger

[Eszett]

I type almost everything with my index finger, due to a lack of technique :-)

[tp4tissue]

I type almost everything with my index finger, due to a lack of technique :-)

You have much to learn, welcome to GH.

[00zeRO]

palm

ROFL...so...what you are saying is that you are typing on a broken membrane, and that is the only way to get it to register.

+1

[dorkvader]

Index finger. I also use it to press X about 50% of the time.

I'm not the best QWERTY typist.

[FrostyToast]

I type with my middle finger for "C" most of the time as well.
I have to shift my hand way too far left to press it with my index.

[epzy]

left index finger

[Telephasic]

Index. Gonna give middle a try. See if I notice any improvements.

[jacobolus]

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**** 'proper'. I do whats comfortable for me.

I’m impressed by your pinkies, and surprised you use your ring fingers for Alt.

Here’s me:


The “p” key is obviously placed for the right ring finger to press. :-)

[demik]

i had to google which was my index finger

i am very ashamed right now

but index finger

[dorkvader]

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**** 'proper'. I do whats comfortable for me.

I’m impressed by your pinkies, and surprised you use your middle fingers for Alt.

Here’s me:

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The “p” key is obviously placed for the right ring finger to press. :-)

you use thumb for alt? I cant curl mine over enough.

[FrostyToast]

Not even a year ago I used only my ring, middle, and index fingers to type. Not even my thumb for spacebar. This is what I call "The Velociraptor"
One day, I said to myself, "I type like ****."
So I took a large portion of my day and the following days to correct my typing by only pressing keys with the finger that was supposed to be used in that column.
I started at a grueling 40 WPM and it was highly discouraging when I was typing at a snail's pace and I wanted desperately to go back to the velociraptor but I remained vigilant.
Now I can type at around 80 WPM which is pretty much what I was typing at before... One might say that my efforts were in vain as I didn't improve much at all, but my typing experience is much more comfortable.

Also: I don't actually press the "C" key with my middle finger 100% of the time. When I have too type a word like "cockatrice" I would use the middle finger for the first two Cs and then in order to press the E immediately after the C, I would have to press the C with my index and then the E with my middle. Hope that makes sense.

[mogo]

Middle finger for me. Here's a map of my finger zones, but keep in mind that less-common keys like the bar key or square brackets usually involve me stopping everything and actually looking down at my keyboard and using whatever finger is convenient at the moment...


edit: 4 is def a middle finger. Whoops.

[bear95]

Middle finger for me.... index when copy pasting

[paicrai]

hurr hurr left shin

[osi]

Left index finger!!

[davkol]

The F* finger, because ErgoDox Master Race.

[esoomenona]

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[davkol]

Next thread: what finger do you use for G?

[esoomenona]

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[Oobly]

Left index. Basically the same as jacobolus' pattern, except sometimes I shift my hands outwards and use the middle instead of ring.

[bazh]

middle finger. The only key that I type differently from the "proper way" is b, I always use right index on "B"


ah, forgot "6"

[Lanx]

You staggered guys, need to get some Matrix in your diet.

[NeedAFix]

The middle finger? Hahah, no thanks.

I use my thumb, so much easier.