Which thumb do you use to hit the space bar?

Jordan Devore

Published: Jan 3, 2019 08:00 pm

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My brain just broke

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You might need to type a throwaway message before you can come up with an accurate response, but here goes: which thumb do you use to hit the space bar? Right? Left? Both? None of the above?

It started with an innocent question posed in Destructoid’s hangout room in Slack.

Does any righty use their left thumb to hit spacebar?

Then we all lost our minds.

I just looked at mine, and there's wear only on the right side.

I do use my right index finger quite often too, now that I actually look at what I'm doing.

I use both thumbs on the spacebar according to which key I've just hit.

Testing which hand I use to hit the space bar and oh god I can't type right.

But my typing is really weird? I also learned to type playing RuneScape, and it was years later when we were taught to "properly" type in school.

I just looked, and I'm using exclusively my right index finger.

I don’t remember what life was like before the Space Bar Question.

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