For Science: WhichShiftButton.com

Idea: Instead of asking for someone's vote, have them type out a paragraph and measure which shift they use

If you use a Mac and want to force yourself to use the correct shift keys, I threw together a KeyRemap4Macbook config that will disable letters typed with the wrong shift: <a href="http://forr.st/~LXx" rel="nofollow">http://forr.st/~LXx</a>

Left shift is only used for gaming, anything else is right shift. A lot of times I will even hold right shift for an ENTIRE SENTENCE IN CAPS because I am just so damn used to holding right shift for caps.<p>EDIT: I suspect most people use left shift because that allows them to type w/o removing their hand from the mouse (most people use the mouse w/ their right hand).

I thought I used both, but after paying attention to it for a few minutes, I seem to use the right shift well over 90% of the time. It's really too bad there's no way to actually detect which shift key is being pressed using JS or even Flash.

Am I the only one that had a typing class where they taught that you press the Shift key with the hand you're not using to type the letter you want?<p>Example: K = left shift, R = right shift.

I use the right shift button but space with my left hand. I don't know if I was taught to do it that way or if its just more naturally comfortable for me. Just out of curiosity, I'd like to see something process some text to determine the most commonly capitalized letters to see which side actually is better to use from an efficiency standpoint.

I've got a slightly unusual pattern; for letters I use exclusively left shift, but will use right shift for the punctuation symbols on numbers 1-5, function keys on the left side, and the home/end/arrow navigation keys. So I answered both, though it's 90% left.

Pretty much always use left shift. The right one seems unnatural, somehow.

It would also be interesting to see if the voters are left or right handed (or ambidextrous?); I assume there is some correlation between this and the most used Shift key.

I'm guessing the I use left shift since several of my passwords have capital letters on the LHS of the keyboard.