Personally, I think it's the stretching a finger in the direction it's pointed towards vs. bending a finger that crosses under other fingers. I find the first to feel much more natural. Although I've been a Mac user for years now and have gotten used to the cmd key, ergonomically, I think ctrl makes more sense.
Looking at the N=1 of ‘me’, I 100% disagree. I can’t reach the control key without also moving my ring finger away from the home row (just checked a couple of different keyboards)
Command, on the other hand, is easy. It’s a one cm or so motion of the top of my thumb (whose natural resting position is at the edges of the space bar)
(I also think that, for the N=1 that’s ‘me’ “the stretching a finger in the direction it's pointed towards” is not a good description of reaching for the control key. With my fingers on the home row, the direction my little finger is pointed to is the Q. To reach the control key, I have to change that direction by about 30 degrees. I can’t easily reach it without also rotating my wrist and/or fold my little finger to hit it with my nail. For command, the ends of my thumbs rotate by about half that)
I definitely agree about the ergonomics. When I first switched over to mac, it was so hard to adjust to the position of command key, especially for copy and pasting. For windows, I was able to copy and paste without moving my entire left hand down. Meanwhile for the command key, I have to move my hand downwards to reach the key. Although it's not that big of a movement, it definitely took me some time to adjust.
agreed, I'm almost to muscle memory with it so it's not the "i have to think about it" annoyance, it's that my whole hand has to move to make it work... noticeably slower than my windows workflows..
I'm a fan of the pomodoro method, although always found 25 minute cycle to be too short to actually concentrate. Personally like the 40 minute - 10 minute cycle more.
