Why are there two enter keys on the keyboard?

Answer 1

By putting these keys at both the right end and the left end of the keyboard, they can be easily reached by either the right hand or the left hand. There are some letters that you would type with your right hand and some that you would type with your left (at least, if you really know how to type!) and you can type a capital letter easily in either case, since whichever hand is not being used to type the letter can still easily reach the shift key.

Answer 2

The keyboard has the two "shift" keys because we use them to reach upper case letters (and other "upper" characters), and we need to reach upper case letters using either hand. A finger on the hand that is not typing the letter will be reaching for the "shift" key to bring up the upper case letter. The characters @, # and $, and ^, &, and *, are all reached using the number keys in combination with the "shift" key. For the first three, the left hand is typing the character while the pinkie finger of the right hand is using the "shift" key. For the latter three characters, the right hand is typing them while the pinkie finger of the left hand is using the "shift" key.

Answer 3

This is a carryover from the typewriter, and allows a user to select the shift with either hand, or to depress both the SHIFT and CTRL keys with the same (either) hand.

On typewriters, the two shift keys were for people who type with both hands, also known as "touch typing." When an uppercase or capital letter is needed for a letter typed with the left hand, the right hand's little finger reaches for the right shift keyand holds it down while the left hand types the needed letter. Same holds true for a capital letter that's needed to be typed with the right hand where the left hand's little finger holds down the left shift key.

The advantage of touch typing is that it is faster. But it takes some effort to properly learn, and is very different from the "hunt and peck" or texting keyboard methods.

Answer 4

There is one Alt key and one Alt gr key. I don't know why both say "Alt," but mine do too. The one to the right has a different function than the one to the left. The left one is just a normal Alt key. The other one lets you make ~ and @ for example. Alt can not do this.

Answer 5

Usually the shift key is held down whilst pressing another key to obtain capital letters or alternate symbols on a key, such as the percent symbol on the "5" key.

There are various other uses, eg holding it down allows you to precisely select text using the up, down, right and left arrow keys.

Answer 6

1 for da left hand & 1 for da rite now giv me my mony fool

Answer 7

one for the left and one for the right
Because we can...We like to show off oviously!!

Answer 8

one is in the typing section the other is in the code entering/ calculator section

so easyer to use for each task