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Keyboard finger guide

Click any key, or just press one, to see which finger owns it. Nothing here is timed or scored: it is a reference to come back to.

Choose a finger
Left index on F

Left index

Press F using your left index finger.

Everything this finger covers

F is pressed with your left index.

The full finger chart

Each finger covers a diagonal column running from the number row down to the bottom row. The index fingers cover two columns each, which is why they do the most work.

Left hand

Rests on A, S, D and F.

Left pinky
  • Backtick
  • 1
  • Q
  • A
  • Z
Left ring
  • 2
  • W
  • S
  • X
Left middle
  • 3
  • E
  • D
  • C
Left index
  • 4
  • 5
  • R
  • T
  • F
  • G
  • V
  • B

Right hand

Rests on J, K, L and semicolon.

Right index
  • 6
  • 7
  • Y
  • U
  • H
  • J
  • N
  • M
Right middle
  • 8
  • I
  • K
  • ,
Right ring
  • 9
  • O
  • L
  • .
Right pinky
  • 0
  • -
  • =
  • P
  • [
  • ]
  • Backslash
  • ;
  • Apostrophe
  • /

Either thumb presses the space bar, and the pinky on the opposite hand holds Shift for a capital or a symbol. Every one of the 8 fingers above keeps its own colour: when a key lights up on the keyboard, and on the finger that presses it.