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Context menu select?

With a mouse in your off hand? That's got to be slower.

Southpaw here. Right thumb on left ctrl, zxcv are all right under my fingers.

This problem never came up for me.

I am an Emacs user with both keys either side of Space bar mapped to Ctrl. And I use Ctrl with either hand using my thumbs bent inwards (or sometimes with my palms).

I also try to use mouse minimally.

I've moved numpad to the left instead:

http://www.a4tech.com/product.asp?cid=1&scid=1&id=54

Southpaw copy/paste/delete shortcuts: ctrl-insert, shift-insert, shift-del