# Parentheses on default layout

**URL:** <https://community.keyboard.io/t/parentheses-on-default-layout/926>\
**Category:** Help and Getting Started\
**Created:** [January 7, 2018, 10:33pm UTC](https://community.keyboard.io/t/parentheses-on-default-layout/926 "2018-01-07T22:33:18Z")\
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**Author:** ![blank101010](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ccd318/32.png) [@blank101010](https://community.keyboard.io/u/blank101010)\
**Post date:** [January 7, 2018, 10:33pm UTC](https://community.keyboard.io/t/parentheses-on-default-layout/926/1 "2018-01-07T22:33:18Z")

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Hey!

I took a look at the default layout of the Model 01 and was surprised that I could not find any mappings for opening and closing parentheses. Does this mean, that SpaceCadet is enabled by default?

Thanks!  
Jonas

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**Author:** ![james.nvc](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex031/user_avatar/community.keyboard.io/james.nvc/32/54_2.png) [@james.nvc](https://community.keyboard.io/u/james.nvc)\
**Post date:** [January 8, 2018, 12:48am UTC](https://community.keyboard.io/t/parentheses-on-default-layout/926/2 "2018-01-08T00:48:12Z")

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By default they’d be on Shift-9 and Shift-0, assuming a US or similar layout.

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**Author:** ![blank101010](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ccd318/32.png) [@blank101010](https://community.keyboard.io/u/blank101010)\
**Post date:** [January 8, 2018, 10:06am UTC](https://community.keyboard.io/t/parentheses-on-default-layout/926/3 "2018-01-08T10:06:39Z")

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Thanks! 🙂

I just wondering about that, because it’s not printed [on the layout card](https://github.com/keyboardio/Model01-Legends/blob/master/layout_card/model-01-layout-card-qwerty.pdf).

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**Author:** ![buc](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex031/user_avatar/community.keyboard.io/buc/32/523_2.png) [@buc](https://community.keyboard.io/u/buc)\
**Post date:** [January 8, 2018, 3:01pm UTC](https://community.keyboard.io/t/parentheses-on-default-layout/926/4 "2018-01-08T15:01:50Z")

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Nor are any of the other punctuation marks that are on the number keys.

But then, the lower-case versions of the letters aren’t printed on the card either.

The two may seem unrelated if you aren’t deeply familiar with the way that computers read keyboards, but they are actually the same mechanism. To the OS (in a default English QWERTY keymap) interpreting shift-9 as ‘(’ is as natural as interpreting shift-a as ‘A’.

I expect that the layout reference card was prepared by people who have worked at the low-level for so long that it’s all second-nature to them and leaving those symbols off seemed like a reasonable trade-off to minimize clutter. Especially for the ‘7’, ‘8’, and ‘9’ keys which also have the numlock variants on them.

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**Author:** ![blank101010](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ccd318/32.png) [@blank101010](https://community.keyboard.io/u/blank101010)\
**Post date:** [January 8, 2018, 6:16pm UTC](https://community.keyboard.io/t/parentheses-on-default-layout/926/5 "2018-01-08T18:16:17Z")

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This makes actually a lot of sense. Thank you for that explanation. 😊