[Someone]

So, you trained your pinky for years, possibly decades, so that it became second nature to exert enough pressure on the control key even though that requires a “pinky stretch”, while letting your thumb atrophy by only using it to press the space bar, and now are surprised that it is easier for you to hit control than command?

Can you imagine that other people who did the reverse may have a different opinion?

I’m firm in the “on most keyboards, the control keys are way to far out to be useful” camp, and don’t see how bending a thumb a tiny bit to hit the command key can be less ergonomic than sending your pink out on an expedition.

[coreyw56]

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.

[Someone]

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)

[vapemaster]

agreed, the fold under makes me use the side of my thumb on command which is much less natural or tactile than stretching my pinky to use the pad.

[Doxin]

With my pinky on left control I can reach from A to K. With my thumb on command I can reach from A to J. With my pinky on command I can reach from A to L, though reaching A contorts my wrist in a way where doing that too much is gonna get me a real sore wrist real quick.

I've got to conclude that the reach between control and command are approximately the same, more than half the keyboard for me in any case at which point you should to switch using control or command on the right side of the keyboard, or using your other hand to press the second button.

Personally my biggest gripe with command over control is that a bunch of software still uses control on macos, giving a rather inconsistent user experience.