When was the last time you (intentionally) used your caps lock key?

No, seriously.

Keyboard

Here is a typical US-layout qwerty (mac) keyboard. Notice:

  1. Caps lock is conveniently located only one key away from A, which is where your left pinky should rest on the home row by default.
  2. Caps lock is absolutely massive.
  3. How far various other keys you might want use often are from the home row.

Remap your caps lock key.

I have mine mapped to escape. 

Modifier keys such as control or command are also good options (you could then map control/command to escape).

How do I do this you ask? 

  • On Mac, system settings > keyboard > keyboard shortcuts > modifier keys.
  • On Windows, Microsoft PowerToys' Keyboard Manager is one solution.
  • If you use Linux, I trust you can manage on your own.

Thanks to Rudolf for introducing me to this idea.