Although I do not recommend resting your fingers on any particular keys, if you choose to do so anyway, you should focus on the letters that appear the most often in the language you are typing, not the letters on any specific row or column. According to a study of cryptographers conducted by Cornell researchers during my freshman year there, the ten most frequent letters in the English language are in order ETAOINSHRD, so you want to place your fingers as close as possible to these letters in order to save as much time between keystrokes as you can. Luckily, on the QWERTY keyboard, this is very possible. You just need to adjust your style and place your left-hand fingers on the keys ASER by default instead of ASDF and your right hand fingers on NIO' instead of JKL;. Not only does this place your fingers by default near the most common letters, it will likely feel better on your fingers and create less resistance on your more powerful middle three fingers than the home row method will. Your middle fingers want to stretch out farther than your pinky and your thumb do, and by placing them on the top row while leaving your pinkies on the middle row, you are not scrunching up any of your fingers and they are hence closer to their optimal positions except for the right index finger on the N and to a lesser degree the left ring finger on the S.🏁
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Although I do not recommend resting your fingers on any particular keys, if you choose to do so anyway, you should focus on the letters that appear the most often in the language you are typing, not the letters on any specific row or column. According to a study of cryptographers conducted by Cornell researchers during my freshman year there, the ten most frequent letters in the English language are in order ETAOINSHRD, so you want to place your fingers as close as possible to these letters in order to save as much time between keystrokes as you can. Luckily, on the QWERTY keyboard, this is very possible. You just need to adjust your style and place your left-hand fingers on the keys ASER by default instead of ASDF and your right hand fingers on NIO' instead of JKL;. Not only does this place your fingers by default near the most common letters, it will likely feel better on your fingers and create less resistance on your more powerful middle three fingers than the home row method will. Your middle fingers want to stretch out farther than your pinky and your thumb do, and by placing them on the top row while leaving your pinkies on the middle row, you are not scrunching up any of your fingers and they are hence closer to their optimal positions except for the right index finger on the N and to a lesser degree the left ring finger on the S.🏁