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Yorke
Profile Joined November 2010
England881 Posts
November 10 2010 01:30 GMT
#21
I use my little finger on left CTRL which allows me to hotkey up to 7 comfortably with my index finger. 8-0 I rotate my hand and use my thumb. Works great.
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Ilikestarcraft
Profile Blog Joined November 2004
Korea (South)17727 Posts
November 10 2010 03:07 GMT
#22
On November 10 2010 04:31 kOre wrote:
I do what you do. Left hand pinky is on CTRL while the other fingers go from 1-6 and then when I need to hotkey more units/buildings I use the right CTRL key (my left thumb is the CTRL) and then the other fingers for numbers 7, 8, 9, and 0.

When I need to use the units and buildings I usually use my left hand for 1 - 8 and 9 and 0 are usually Nexus so I don't use them as much.

P.S. It helps if you have a multicolored keyboard. Right now my setup is made to look cool but when I plan on going back to SC my white keys are usually Z, D, T, K, S, R, V because of unit hotkeys

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Does the right control actually work for you with that keyboard? I rememeber I had the same keyboard yet it would never register when I tried to bind something with the right control key.
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kawatan
Profile Joined January 2010
288 Posts
November 10 2010 04:12 GMT
#23
jd doesnt even bother with 6-0/7-0. but to do what jd does you got to compensate with monster apm. if you have trouble hitting the L ctrl, there are keyboards that actually have a bigger ctrl key than say the dt35. like the ol ibm keyboards (ANY-buckling or otherwise).
Carefoot
Profile Blog Joined June 2010
Canada410 Posts
November 10 2010 06:16 GMT
#24
Download Reborn Utility Kit and make control set to capslock, then disable capslock in windows all togethor so it doesn't turn on capitals. Useless key given a use.
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yrag89
Profile Joined July 2008
Malaysia315 Posts
November 10 2010 12:07 GMT
#25
Not trying to promote or anything but I found this interesting,
http://www.zowiegear.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=137
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Apparently Flash told ZOWIE to make the windows key into a Ctrl/Windows key, so you have 2 Ctrl keys. Probably the 2nd Ctrl key can extend your control further.
secondly morrow is a korean pro who plays terran what the hell did you expect lol - charlie420247
noD
Profile Blog Joined August 2010
2230 Posts
November 10 2010 17:59 GMT
#26
I read someone saying that boxer even use up down left right keys to lookk instead of middle mouse pressing, was pretty glad sicne i do that too XD
Wolf
Profile Blog Joined April 2010
Korea (South)3290 Posts
November 10 2010 19:18 GMT
#27
If I remember correctly, you can use shift to hotkey as well? Or is that just in SC2... Been a long time...
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Ilikestarcraft
Profile Blog Joined November 2004
Korea (South)17727 Posts
November 10 2010 20:51 GMT
#28
Yeah you use shift but it only works if you didn't use that key before. For example if I never hotkeyed anything to 9 I can use shift+9 to hotkey it. What shift+# is mostly used for is to add units into already existing groups.
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bjornkavist
Profile Blog Joined June 2009
Canada1235 Posts
November 11 2010 02:57 GMT
#29
Im surprised at all the different techniques used to set hotkeys. I mean im used to seeing players take their hand off the mouse to hotkey 7-0 but for me I can use my left hand entirely. I use my pinky for the ctrl, and i can reach 1-0 with the rest of my fingers. I guess it pays off the play guitar
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Wolf
Profile Blog Joined April 2010
Korea (South)3290 Posts
November 11 2010 05:08 GMT
#30
On November 11 2010 05:51 Ilikestarcraft wrote:
Yeah you use shift but it only works if you didn't use that key before. For example if I never hotkeyed anything to 9 I can use shift+9 to hotkey it. What shift+# is mostly used for is to add units into already existing groups.


Yeah, exactly. I wasn't sure if it worked like that in Brood War or not, since you only have a max of 12 units per group.
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mmp
Profile Blog Joined April 2009
United States2130 Posts
November 11 2010 08:04 GMT
#31
Holding shift works sometimes... that is, you actually have to wait for the combined keystroke to register, similar to ctrl+# doesn't always register if you do it too quickly (I think this is Windows's scheduler being shitty as always). I was never a fan of the shift because it is very unreliable.

It does allow you to select a group of units, and then add it to an already populated group. I didn't realize this for the longest time until a friend pointed it out.

I only use keyboards that have ctrl at the bottom left. Laptops can be especially troublesome because some models like to place the Function key at the bottom left.
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