[G] YAKS: Yet Another hotKey Setup (zerg only)

What this does:
SHIFT+Z select queens,
X Select spawn larva
SHIFT+C base camera
X Rapid fire key (could also be click)
S Hold your queens from wandering around the field

What this does:
A select your hatcheries
S Select larva
D Build drone

This way you always make, without any mistakes, your drones correctly. If there are no larva, no problem, because the select larva also has a binding to D. Thus you don't need to spam S,D as a crazy guy, but can just comfortably press and hold D, and when a larva pops, it immediately turns it into a drone. This is also true for overlords, which you create by the letter F).

This relies heavily on the camera locations. Don't release CTRL!

CTRL(hold)

CTRL+A (jumps to creep cam 1)
click tumor or box tumors
SPACE click to spread them
CTRL+Z (set creep cam 1 on new location)

CTRL+S (jumps to creep cam 2)
click tumor or box tumors
SPACE click to spread them
CTRL+X (set creep cam 2 on new location)

CTRL+D (jumps to creep cam 3)
click tumor or box tumors
SPACE click to spread them
CTRL+C (set creep cam 3 on new location)

release CTRL

And your done. Practice this and you will never want to go back.

Why would you turn around this fundamental principal of the game? Because the game does it wrong.

So you want to create some units, to join the battle, and you don't want them to just pop out, but want to put them in the right control group. How to do this?
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Or, you have a mixed group and quickly want to add them to designated control groups
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Or, you have a group with a few wrong units in it, and want to split it in its own control groups.
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or use SPACE or D to have more control

or use R to have more control

All rapid fire keys are optional, so you can use rapid fire, but can also decide to not use rapid fire, thus giving you full control over your rapid fire.
Other rapid fire spells are:
Consume (Viper, normal key is D)
Corruption (Corruptor, normal key is SPACE)
Contaminate (Overseer, normal key is R)

Armies:
1: CAPS (create SHIFT+CAPS, add ALT+CAPS or CTRL+CAPS)
2: Q (create SHIFT+Q, add ALT+Q or CTRL+Q)
3: W (create SHIFT+W, add ALT+W or CTRL+W)
4: E (create SHIFT+E, add ALT+E or CTRL+E)
5: 1 (create SHIFT+1, add ALT+1 or CTRL+1)
6: 2 (create SHIFT+2, add ALT+2 or CTRL+2)
7: 3 (create SHIFT+3, add ALT+3 or CTRL+3)
Tech buildings:
10: V (create SHIFT+V, add ALT+V or CTRL+V)

Hatcheries:
8: A (create CTRL+ALT+A, add SHIFT+A)
Queens:
9: SHIFT+Z (create CTRL+ALT+Z, add ALT+Z)

I would put my tech buildings on V. There are 7 control groups readily available for your use during battle.

Cam 1: ALT+A (create ALT+SHIFT+A) main
Cam 2: ALT+S (create ALT+SHIFT+S) 2nd
Cam 3: ALT+D (create ALT+SHIFT+D) 3rd
Cam 4: ALT+F (create ALT+SHIFT+F or CTRL+F) 4th
Cam 5: ALT+G (create ALT+SHIFT+G or CTRL+G) 5th

Creep cam 1: CTRL+A (create CTRL+Z)
Creep cam 2: CTRL+S (create CTRL+X)
Creep cam 3: CTRL+D (create CTRL+C)

Center camera on current selections: ALT+SHIFT

Base cam: SHIFT+C

Having the cameras quickly at hand makes things like worker transfer much easier. the first three cams will always be self centering cameras. This makes it easier to put them at your hatcheries. The 4th and 5th cam can be set freely where ever you want them to set, or you can also use it as a self centering cam. The creep cams are dedicated for creep spread, but if you want to use them for something else, than that is OK, off course.

Space: Spell you need in the heat of the battle
R: 2nd important spell
D: Spell you never ever really use (but still comfortable to reach)
X: Rapid fire key, for spells you might want to use with rapid fire on (like spawn infested terrans, or spread creep)
4: Burrow
5: Unburrow

The spells and abilities are placed such, that after selecting a control group, you can easily select the spell/ability with an other finger.

Some spells can be autocasted by using the keyboard. The keyboard shortcut to do so is: ALT+key. So for example, when you burrow some banelings, you can set unburrow on autocast (press ALT+5), making them landmines. You can also deactivate the spawn locust ability from the swarm hosts by pressing ALT+R or ALT+SPACE. This way you can synchronize the spawning of locusts.

The creep tumor has 3 bindings to spread its creep, D (to make it the same key as creep spread for queens), X (to let it spread creep with the rapid fire key) and SPACE (to let you spread creep easily when doing the creep spread by cam method)

F: Attack move
T: Patrol
G: Hold position
S: Stop
B: Move
C: Cancel

You can easily queue commands, like a move and hold command, when you want to block your ramp. Or use the stop or hold command to kite your roaches into safety.

The benefit is that your control groups are closer to your base location of your fingers. Also, the abilities you want to use in battle are on the space bar or on the index finger. So it can be as easy as: Q SPACE, E SPACE, W SPACE. Stutter moving or kiting are also easy with either the stop command or the hold command, readily available. Also all spells and abilities can be queued, making patrol splitting easy to do.

Grab some workers, press and hold D to quickly spam Spore Crawlers
Grab some workers, press and hold SPACE to quickly spam Spine Crawlers
You can also select your buildings tab using the D key, or by the SPACE bar.
To build a new hatchery, press D,F
` to select your whole army
TAB to select idle workers
Z to select mineral patch
C to return cargo
Next subgroup: Back mouse button (You know, those side buttons on your mouse), or F1
Previous subgroup: Forward mouse button (You know, those side buttons on your mouse), or F2

On the loading screen:
press D(hold)
click hatchery (builds your first drone)
release D
send overlord away
SHIFT+C: base cam
click hatchery
SHIFT+A: add hatchery to its own control group
ALT+SHIFT(hold)A: create cam 1
click natural on mimimap
ALT+SHIFT(hold)S: create cam 2
click 3rd on mimimap
ALT+SHIFT(hold)D: create cam 3
click 4th on mimimap
ALT+SHIFT(hold)F: create cam 4
click 5th on mimimap
ALT+SHIFT(hold)G: create cam 5
Press A,S,D to create your second drone

Use ALT+A-G to recall these cams.
ALT+SHIFT centers the camera on the current selection.
Cams 4 and 5 can also be created by CTRL+F,G. Making them also free cams, for example to use them on your rally point.
In the beginning setting 5 camera locations before you have enough minerals to create your second drone might be quite hard. So practice with only setting the first 3 camera locations.

After some testing it turned out that the fingers in the standard typing position for touch typing (ASDF), is the best starting position for the fingers. All keyboards are optimized for this position. Both your index and pinky have space to reach to one adjacent key, effectively increasing the amount of commands you can control. Putting your fingers at the middle row puts it closer to the modifier keys. And the last benefit, is that you will learn touch typing with your left hand for free!

Larva Injects Larva injects are the most important thing for a zerg player. Making it as easy as possible, is therefor important. Putting it at SHIFT+Z+X+C makes it a very easy sequence to perform.

Droning When you have larva, you need to turn them into drones. And you will do it! Using A+S+D, it will be very quick.

Control groups I always found it strange that the most important keys are always so far away (1-0). Putting them on 1-3,Q-E and CAPS makes them much easier to reach. It also gives you the control over 7 easily reachable control groups.

Spells and abilities As you use your control groups with your pinky, ring finger and middle finger, you have the index finger and thumb always available to give commands and do spells. This makes microing a lot easier.

The thumb When you control your units, you quickly want to cast your favorite spells, or quickly enable your favorite abilities. Using SPACE that just became very easy. Also, using the thumb to hit ALT and create control groups or check your production buildings, gives it another good use.

Natural pose All keyboards are made for touch typing, and thus also for this hotkey setup. You don't need to turn your keyboard, or put your hand in awkward positions, while executing commands. Also, we minimized the use of the pinky, by having ALT creating control groups.

Touch typing Did I already mention that your left hand will automatically learn touch typing, just by playing SC2, if you use this hotkey setup? And the other way around is also true, if you do touch typing you actually practice your fingers for sc2.

What this does:
SHIFT+Z select queens,
X Select spawn larva
SHIFT+C base camera
X Rapid fire key (could also be click)
S Hold your queens from wandering around the field

What this does:
A select your hatcheries
S Select larva
D Build drone

or use D to have more control

or use R to have more control

All rapid fire keys are optional, so you can use rapid fire, but can also decide to not use rapid fire, thus giving you full control over your rapid fire.
Other rapid fire spells are:
Consume (Viper, normal key is D)
Corruption (Corruptor, normal key is SPACE)
Contaminate (Overseer, normal key is R)

Armies:
1: CAPS (create ALT+CAPS or CTRL+CAPS, add SHIFT+CAPS)
2: Q (create ALT+Q or CTRL+Q, add SHIFT+Q)
3: W (create ALT+W or CTRL+W, add SHIFT+W)
4: E (create ALT+E or CTRL+E, add SHIFT+E)
5: 1 (create ALT+1 or CTRL+1, add SHIFT+1)
6: 2 (create ALT+2 or CTRL+2, add SHIFT+2)
7: 3 (create ALT+3 or CTRL+3, add SHIFT+3)
Hatcheries:
8: A (create ALT+A or CTRL+A, SHIFT+A)
Queens:
9: SHIFT+Z (create ALT+SHIFT+Z, add ALT+Z)
Production buildings, or more armies:
10: ALT+V (create ALT+SHIFT+V, add SHIFT+V)

I would put my tech buildings on V. There are 7 control groups readily available for your use during battle.
Using the ALT key to create the control groups, instead of CTRL, makes your hands more comfortable on the keyboard.

Cam 1: TAB (create CTRL+TAB) main
Cam 2: ALT+S (create CTRL+S) 2nd
Cam 3: ALT+D (create CTRL+D) 3rd
Cam 4: ALT+F (create CTRL+F) 4th
Cam 5: ALT+G(create CTRL+G) 5th
Cam 6: C (create CTRL+C) whatever you want
Cam 7: V (create CTRL+V) whatever you want
Cam 8: B (create CTRL+B) whatever you want

Center camera on current selections: CTRL+SPACE

Having the cameras quickly at hand makes things like worker transfer much easier.

Space: Spell you need in the heat of the battle
R: 2nd important spell
D: Spell you never ever really use (but still comfortable to reach)
X: Rapid fire key, for spells you might want to use with rapid fire on (like spawn infested terrans, or spread creep)
4: Burrow/Unload (it is for moving your units down...)
5: Unburrow/Load (it is for moving your units up...)

The spells and abilities are placed such, that after selecting a control group, you can easily select the spell/ability with an other finger.

Some spells can be autocasted by using the keyboard. The keyboard shortcut to do so is: ALT+key. So for example, when you burrow some banelings, you can set unburrow on autocast (press ALT+5), making them landmines. You can also deactivate the spawn locust ability from the swarm hosts by pressing ALT+R or ALT+SPACE. This way you could synchronize the spawning of locusts.

F: Attack move
T: Patrol
G: Hold position
S: Stop
7: Move

You can easily queue commands, like a move and hold command, when you want to block your ramp. Or use the stop or hold command to kite your roaches into safety.

The benefit is that your control groups are closer to your base location of your fingers. Also, the abilities you want to use in battle are on the space bar or on the index finger. So it can be as easy as: Q SPACE, E SPACE, W SPACE. Stutter moving or kiting are also easy with either the stop command or the hold command, readily available. Also all spells and abilities can be queued, making patrol splitting easy to do.

In case of banelings or hellions running to your mineral line, you might want to split your workers. The worker split can be done as follows:
CTRL+click on your workers.
S (stops them from working)
CTRL+ZX (at the same time, press ZX with the same finger, make sure the finger is in the split in between the keys before pressing down. CTRL+Z is select idle worker. CTRL+X is the smart command).
wave with your mouse.

More background information, and to check if your keyboard is compatible, check this video:

Grab some workers, press and hold S to quickly spam Spore Crawlers
Grab some workers, press and hold SPACE to quickly spam Spine Crawlers
You can also select your buildings tab using the SPACE bar.

Click hatchery
S D (create drone)
send overlord away
SHIFT+C (center camera above hatchery)
click hatchery
CTRL(hold)+A (bind hatchery to control group)
CTRL(hold)+TAB (create cam location above your main)
as you want, create more camera groups (for example, your natural, third and ramp) This can all be done before you make your second drone, but it needs a little practice.

Disable the windows keys and ALT+TAB ingame
Best way to get to windows: CTRL+ESC
Why to use screen hotkeys: http://www.teamliquid.net/forum/sc2-strategy/332888-screen-hotkeys-an-easy-way-to-improve