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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.

I rebound it, I never use it

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

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.

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

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, but not as often as the left.

While touch typing, I pretty much always use the left shift key. To type "A" for example I slid my hand over one set of keys and pressed the A key with my ring finger. Right shift ends up used mostly with the punctuation marks to the right, like I actually move my entire right hand down to hit shift and ?

I also strike T, Y and B with different hands depending on what I'm typing.

There may be some other eccentricities but I do mostly touch type properly, asdfjkl; and all that.

yep when game controls wasn t with wasd u have to use arrow keys to move the player

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.

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

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

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.

I use it to wake my computer up when the display is off.

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

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.

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