# Thumb key choices **URL:** \ **Category:** Model 01 Layouts\ **Created:** [August 4, 2017, 2:47am UTC](https://community.keyboard.io/t/thumb-key-choices/301 "2017-08-04T02:47:44Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 2
**Author:** ![Javaru](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex031/user_avatar/community.keyboard.io/javaru/32/62_2.png) [@Javaru](https://community.keyboard.io/u/Javaru)\ **Post date:** [August 4, 2017, 4:04pm UTC](https://community.keyboard.io/t/thumb-key-choices/301/2 "2017-08-04T16:04:44Z")
I’ve also thought about changing the Thumb keys a little. Keep in mind this is only thoughts & theories for now, and will likely change once I get my Model 01’s and try things hands-on. I do a lot of modifier chording. I’m planing to try using OneShot keys as discussed in the [Chording and discomfort](https://community.keyboard.io/t/chording-and-discomfort/110) thread. I think the idea has a lot of merit. @algernon makes a _great_ case for using one-shot modifiers in that thread and in his blog posts. And as I thought about it, I can definitely see it as being faster than chording. With that in mind, I want the modifiers in sequence so hitting two or three of them in a row is a quick process. So I wanted to place them all next to each other. At the same time I want to prepare for the possibility of doing conventional chording. I remember either Jesse or Kaia saying that the shape of the thumb keys allow for simultaneously pressing (i.e chording) two adjacent modifiers. `Ctrl`+`Shift` and `Ctrl`+`Alt` are the two most common chording combos for me. And `Alt` +`Shift` a close third. This layout should allow for easy one thumb chording of the first two, and two thumb chording of the latter one (as well as `Ctrl`+`Alt`+`Shift`). But again, I’m hoping I can take to OneShot’s, thus making chording unnecessary. If so, I will remap the second `Shift` key on the left hand to something else. Again, all subject to change 🙂 Including possibly moving the modifiers off the thumbs. ![my-thumb-keys](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex031/uploads/keyboard/original/1X/f37a489588e8190d833d8043b32d9eb25ed5ab96.png) --- _[View the full topic](https://community.keyboard.io/t/thumb-key-choices/301)._