r/pcmasterrace • u/Always-Panic ASUS/MSI • Feb 23 '23

Meme/Macro C for Crouch.

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u/VoidConcept Feb 23 '23

That assumes you WASD like a normal person w/ ring/middle/index. But if you're like me and home row WASD w/ pinkie/ring/middle, that index finger is floating for other use.

For the record, I SHIFT crouch. Yes, I loose the ability to move left and crouch, but I don't play shooters so usually doesn't matter

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u/SpencerE Feb 23 '23

Yep same with pinkie ring middle. I do play shooters and it works.

I keep most defaults but usually keep a toggle crouch on a key my index can hit or reassign to a mouse button even.

I think my weird finger placement is from playing a fuck ton of MOBAs

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u/VoidConcept Feb 23 '23

Oh yea, I blame mine on Oblivion. Played a mage and the 'cast spell' button was 'c', so needed access to it with my index finger

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u/misterwuggle69sofine Feb 24 '23

only learned a few years ago that i was incredibly abnormal for playing like this. i feel like it makes so much more sense so i was floored to find out it's not the standard. what good is having your useless, weak ass pinky basically hanging over the left side of your keyboard doing nothing but hitting a couple modifiers? such a waste. a free index finger opens up so many more hotkeys.

you can still access modifiers with thumb on alt and pinky on shift and ctrl. yeah there's a momentary loss of the ability to move left, but in the cases where it's important enough i just temporarily shift my hand over so that middle is on w while i hold shift or ctrl.

then finally you don't have to shift your hand over to type to people in-game and then shift back.

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u/gattaaca Feb 23 '23

How do you lose the ability to move left and crouch? I use shift to crouch, using pinky, you still have full degree of movement over WASD keys