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I can't touch type symbols. (!@#$%^&*)

I can feel my brain stutter every time I need to type an esoteric operator.

...okay I know what I'm doing this weekend.

It's not that hard as learning to touch type the entire alphabet! And I don't consider those symbols esoteric, unless you're programming Lisp.

Mostly you would only use (*) from that list for lisp. Some lisp hackers are known to remap the first row of their keyboard to be shifted so that one needn’t hold shift to type parens.

I thought you were going to say they map the first row of their keyboard to parentheses -- which I guess is only a bit further.

I can pretty much cord things like Cmd-Shift-[ or the above without thinking about it, any hand, holding a drink or lighting up. It feels right.

...You should

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