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only for keybinds that use shift and some other keys that are a little to far away from Lshift on my keyboard.

I only use it when I have food in one hand and can't reach the desired key + left shift with my other hand.

I type with both hands usually so use both, but when doing the one hand thing it's always the right shift key. That one is more worn on my keyboard.

My keyboard has two shift keys. I don't think I've ever used the right shift key, not even for usage with emulators for consoles with a lot of buttons... the modifier is always the left shift key since it's closest to my left hand and I can have my right hand on the other side where the arrow keys are. The arrow keys, WASD, Z, X, A, S, Q,W, 1, 2 etc have always been sufficient for most games.

I have literally only ever used the right shift key when playing, like, two different games. Both were simulations with insane amounts of controls. One is ARMA, and the other was a flight sim.

I used it because it had a function bound to it that wasn't on the left shift.

Edit: Oh and I think there was a pinball game on DOS that used both shift keys to operate the flippers.

I had to type a bit to check, but found that I mostly use the right shift if the letter I'm capitalizing is on the left side of the keyboard. Oddly, it wasn't 100% though.

yes - ctrl + shift ) splits the kde konsole

exclusively. i never use the left shift for anything other than running in games.

other than as a keybind in a singular Minecraft mod, no never. Always the left one, I also never use the caps lock key

With emulators mostly.

Yeah, pretty sure i use it for capitalising symbols on the right of the keyboard.

In fact, i think i might use it for some of the symbols above the numbers, too.

I need to get in front of a keyboard and find out.

Yes, but I don't use the right control key.

I also don't use the right alt key, except for keyboards where I don't have a menu key, and don't use it as alt in that case. In both cases, I bind that to Compose.

I use the right Shift key to capitalize when touch-typing. I only use left Shift for Ctrl+Shift+Esc.

That red-headed step-child? No way.

I rebound it, I never use it

I rarely use the key as shift. It's reassigned to a different function when tapped and that's what I use it for most of the time.

yes it gives me access to "%", which is handy for string interpolation

Yes, ofc! I have it switched to the up-arrow on my 60%.
Otherwise no.

My brain refuses to remember that they there are any utility keys below the enter on a US keyboard. The right pinky moves over and up, never down. I also never hit the spacebar with my right hand.

I never formally learned to type, I just picked it up because my hands have been glued to keyboards since the 80s.

Yes, when doing Ctrl+Insert to copy then Shift+Insert to paste

Never because I can reach left shift with my pinky from basically anywhere on the keyboard

No, never. My keyboard doesn't even have one (40%)

Never. I exclusively use my left thumb for the space bar, too.

I could probably type faster if I fixed those issues, but 30 years of bad habits die hard.

Yup, because I re-map WASD to my arrows and the right shift is near there.

No, I don't. I know the proper way is to use right shift to type capital letters with the left hand, but I fell out of that a long time ago.

So, everyone who said "no" never learned how to type or what?

Yes, sometimes, on one of my keyboards the left one doesn’t work for some weird software related reason

Constantly, but only at work. I use it for ? and that's it.