Moving to ESDF

[hobothe1st]

I've been using E-centric bindings for a few years now and I can't imagine ever going back to WASD. Personally, I use WER for strafing/movement with Follow typically bound to D (I don't backpedal). I use three banks of keys for binding:

1 2 3 4 5 6
Q A S F G T (and optionally Y)
Z X C V B N (all of these can be reached with your thumb)

The beauty of shifting the hand over to WER, I find, is that it allows me to hit CTRL with the part of my hand just below the pinky finger. This acts like a 6th finger and doesn't require me to move my other fingers out of position--effectively doubling the number of easy-to-reach keybinds. This trick is entirely awkward to use in a WASD-setup from my experience.

I think it took me several days to adjust when I originally made the switch. But now I spam the 1 key with my pinky as if it was the only way to do it. And think, you'll be a five-fingered gamer again, just like the gamer gods intended. No more four-finger handicap for you.

[heyaz]

The beauty of shifting the hand over to WER, I find, is that it allows me to hit CTRL with the part of my hand just below the pinky finger. .

You know, I never thought of that. I don't use CTRL modifiers because my to get good press on it I have to move my hand down, whereas shift is just high enough I can do shift+3 for example without moving anything.

There was this video by a russian guy I think on keybindings, he had the whole keyboard mapped out and colorized, taking into account hand sizes and positioning. If you could get over the accent and broken english he was really onto something. It was geared towards good keybindings for 3v3 but he had it all setup in such a way with modifiers that your hand never has to float around and everything was always within reach.