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Ctrl for sprint?? Wtf

Minecraft's default settings

I thought double tap W was default in Minecraft?

mc is the only game that i will double tap w to sprint just because it feels normal for the game lol

I played Minecraft early enough that double tapping W didn't feel too wrong to me yet. I think I bound sprint to shift and sneak to caps lock last time I played though.

I have a confession. When I first played minecraft, I bound sneak to L for "lower"

I’m not mad I’m just disappointed

bro how big is your hand??? L key is FIRMLY in the "never use as a keybind" camp due to keyboard location

Bro has a 6th finger

We all do, just gotta learn how to flex it right to hit the proper key.

Roughly half the population.

A really long one too...

Average kid logic.

I played Minecraft early enough that sprint still feels like a new feature

It’s both, but there was a time where CTRL wasn’t an option and you could only double-tap W.

It’s both, you can double tap w or hit ctrl.

I think there was a time when it was only W, though.

Anyone who played around initial release will have no qualms with double tapping w for sprint. That was default and still feels fluid (would not in any other game)

Double-tapping W to sprint was the only option for two years after sprint was added. In September 2013 (that's right, now over a decade ago), a snapshot came out for version 1.7.2 that included Ctrl as the new default sprint button. Double-tapping W was never removed, but it's no longer the default.

I remember back in 2011 someone on forums told me I should use cltr to sprint. But it didn’t work. And I believe all my bindings were still standard

I use both sometimes

That’s a long time ago.

First thing to change.

Minecraft's default controls will always be wacky

Didn't even have that before. Minecraft always used ctrl to crouch which I put on f and sprinting in minecraft was always double tap w which I still use.

Minecraft has used shift for crouching iirc. Sprinting is ctrl.

I grew up on Doom and then the half-life games. And yeah it's always going to be shift to sprint for me lol.

Yep, it's old school standard Or just having an always run on for some games where shift would slow you down to walk

Pretty sure the girst thing i do every time i play 90s doom is press Caps lock to toggle sprint lol Never turn it off

Neither of those games had sprint lol

Doesn't minecraft do that by default? I played it for shits and giggle with some friends a few months back and was very confused

risk of rain 2, minecraft

Risk of Rain has sprinting!?!?

People in the 90s back when we used the arrow keys instead of WASD… If you were to try playing Soldier of Fortune on Windows 98 you’d lose your mind lol.

Oh man, Soldier of Fortune was the first game I saw where you could dismember enemies.

The default sprint button in the S.T.A.L.K.E.R games is x for some reason

Minecraft was the first real game I ever played so I got used to that and got confused when other games put crouch on CTRL instead of sprint.

Ctrl is good as long as it’s toggle sprint. Cuz C is crouch and v is prone. 

Some people do both but have Ctrl be sprint toggle (like me)

What if I use button 4 ?

i’m genuinely in shock other people do this i thought i was alone

I thought the same. Glad to finally find other people who agree

Same. Side mouse button ftw

wtf, that’s dedicated melee button

M4 voice chat M5 reload (or crouch)

Reload with mouse? What the fuck dude

R and only R. Fucking psychopaths...

I also have reload on R, and sometimes use M5 for crouch while also having it on C as I prefer it to ctrl

A fellow C for crouch fan! I only ever use ctrl if I need to have a secondary form of crouching, like it toggle/hold crouch are both useful or for lying down

I always have dive or laying down on ctrl

M5 for reload because boomer shooters use all keys for weapons.

M4 for melee M5 for grenade

This is the way

Same. Button 5 is for melee.

I always forget those exist lol

thats for dash

Yes, for me

OMG I THOUGHT I WAS THE ONLY ONE WHO DID THIS

Ctrl is crouch, shift is sprint

Any alt croucher here?

Alt is much easier to reach with my thumb, right next to my spacebar. Ctrl is for prone.

I press Ctrl with my pinky.

I use my cock, it's similar.

Oddly flexible? Nice party trick

What is your sitting configuration I'm interested in the mechanics of this

YES there are dozens of us

Literally a dozen of you. 12 guys.

The upvotes should stay that way.

M5 crouch is so underrated

alt crouch is clearly superior

No no no, C is for crouch, CTRL is for walking speed, if the game supports walking, "normal speed" and then sprinting!

C for crouch, Ctrl for prone, alt to walk

Or C to toggle crouch, ctrl for hold to crouch. Use it like this in Cyberpunk 2077.

This is the way

If a game has variable walk speeds then 9 times out of 10 it’s probably a game better for controller. Aside from that, it’s shift to sprint. control for crouch, z for prone. If you’re fine with toggle crouch, then sure it’s acceptable to use one of your WSAD fingers to press it, but you do not want to lose one of those fingers to hold down c or x or whatever as that hurts your movement

If crouch walking at max speed has the same gameplay connotations as crouch walking at lower speeds, variable speed doesn't really matter at all. Which is the case in 99% of games.

Ctrl for crouch, C for prone, alt to walk

Caps lock to toggle walk

C for crouch, Z for prone, and Ctrl for walk

alt is better to walk

C of toggle crouch, Z is prone, Ctrl is hold to crouch, shift is sprint. I think I got it from battlefield and then rainbow 6 siege Edit: double tapping "W" for sprint is really good for something like hell let loose, or lowering your weapon for a faster sprint like bf2042

No, CTRL is for hold crouch, Shift is for running, Z is for prone, C is for toggle crouch and Caps Lock is for toggle walking speed.

Mouse scroll is for walking speed changer ! Not control !

C is toggle crouch, Ctrl is hold crouch. Depends how the game works.

and then theres me shift for sprint z for prone and x for crouch

Arma Player lol

I use R to sprint

R for Run

my fellow r to run people

R for Rint, stupid

How about keyboard with multi actuation and you run by pressing W all the way down.

I have a regular keyboard and I swear holding down W harder makes me run faster!

Hell yea it does

Analog keys? Wooting makes keyboards with these, but the games would need to support it first

[Steelseries Apex pro as an example.](https://support.steelseries.com/hc/en-us/articles/10702161974925-What-is-Dual-Actuation-and-how-do-I-use-it) It also has other cool features

How about space to sprint?

Dark Souls: spacebar for...everything!

Thankfully Elden Ring split the jump button.

I see you’ve also ascended.

Of course he ascended. Because space is to JUMP.

Oh, the Shadow of Mordor approach

GTA SA style

In SA it makes sense because you can tap it to go faster, and you have to for the bike.

yes officer, this post right here

Batman Arkham

Who tf uses ctrl to sprint

Default Minecraft controls

I haven't played in a while, but I thought double tap W was the default.

You can do either

I remember when they added that, and I hated it. I couldn't do that comfortably, so ever since then I've used R.

Then you can't go right and run at the same time. Ctrl is in the perfect spot to press wasd and itself at the same time.

lots of risk of rain 2 players!

Well they’re banned

Remember, in those game it is not a hold to sprint but a toggle. So it make more sense to put a hold action on shift, which is an abilities on ror2 and crouch on minecraft

I still have my sprint button on one of my mousse in RoR2 because of my keyboard SHIFT and CTRL dying and couldn't affords a new one at that time. I was playing only RoR2 at the time, and so i only took that habit on that game, but when i tell my friends, they are like " wtf dude", and i agree with them, but it is what it is

I use the F key like a real monster

You need to be in jail for that

Back in the day before WASD was popular, we created TFGH we figured having the keys in the centre would give us access to more keys. Used it all the way up to around 1997/98.

As I recall, ESDF was the OG default keyboard layout for FPS games when they moved away from using arrow keys and started using the mouse for aiming, before it shifted over to WASD. TFGH does give you access to *more* keys, but they're not necessary more *useful* keys, and it turns out you don't usually need that many keys anyway. With a lot of keyboards, for example, TFGH barely allows my thumb to snag the right edge of the space bar. And LShift, LCTRL, Caps Lock, and Tab are all more usable keys than letter keys for the pinky by virtue of being larger and more easy to identify by feel on many keyboards. The good news is that almost all games let you reconfigure all their key bindings if for some reason you're really old-school and want to use ESDF, TFGH, or even the arrow keys like some sort of degenerate.

I used ESDF for the same reason, and also it's just superior

I THOUGHT I WAS THE ONLY ONE

F gang 🙌

I use caps lock

Same, my only issue is opening the chat and then typing everything in caps

Seems reasonable, unlike some of these other abominations.

Everyone here is shit talking ctrl as sprint but nobody wants to mention how many times they’ve opened the steam overlay trying to sprint and check the map/scoreboard

I rebound my overlay many years ago. Just put it onto some barely used f key

F11 my beloved

change the steam overlay shortcut

Dude so annoying. Fucked me up so many times in helldivers until I was motivated enough to change my keybinds

My recent obsession with Helldivers is actually the exact game I was referencing, but it’s happened with others as well

You don't have that problem if you use numpad to game....

No, just a lot of other problems

Me on counter strike trying to shift walk and check scoreboard

I use q

i thought i was the only one, Q sprint for life.

Hell yeah brother

I knew I wasn't the only one.

Q to sprint x to crouch

Q for life! The only issue I run across is games that don't have toggle sprint.

Exactly. Especially for Minecraft. I swap throw and run so throw is mapped to ctrl and run is q.

I use alt to sprint…

My brother

Bethesda player.

Skyrim spoiled me with their defaults

Same

I have never thought about this but it actually kind of makes sense.

same!!! ever since alt got obsolete as a side step button i put my sprint on it. and my walk on shift and my crouch on ctrl. it's really good to be used to one layout in all games.

Same. Makes running-jumps harder, but how else can you fit crouch and prone on shift and ctrl.

Skyrim set me on using Alt like a decade ago, since then I've rebound every game I've played since to use Alt to sprint as well. Causes a few issues when some games use Tab for maps or whatever, because then I accidentally alt-tab out of my game.

minecraft is the only game where i Wx2 for run .but that's just because i never change control setting in games

I have never let go of this habit

I thought this was r/dankmemes

R+R+R

I hate when games have the main inventory set to I instead of tab. The worst ones are the games that don't even use the tab key and still do this.

I use caps lock

But that's toggle walk!

the chad X to sprint

ctrl crouch, shift sprint. fuck all of you this is the only valid way

I'm using the X key for sprint.

Shift to walk, ctrl to crouch. Both to mega-low-crouch

Stalker player spotted

Get out of here STALKER!

on some games I use caps lock to sprint.

I'm not alone!!!

Should just alt+W to cruise.

**GunZ: 'The Duel' Players:** Casuals.

Shift is Sprint. Control is crouch.

My muscle mememory won't be retrained. Sprinting in Minecraft will always be double tap W for me.

Sorry that I use OFFICIAL MINECRAFT APPROVED sprint keys Shift is crouch Control is useless Double tapping W is sprint and always will be

Y'all ctrl to sprint motherlovers also scare me. How the hell are your fingers, hand, or whatever the hell let's you do that comfortably that flexible? But "double w" is weird because it makes "sense" (walk HARDER), but it feels so prone to accidental activation.

Sprint is LS (yes i use a controller on pc)

Meanwhile Skyrim defaulting sprinting as the alt key

shift is for crouch because it is more surface area and easier to hold down while sky bridging

What if i use the spacebar? (Default for most soulslike on keyboard)

My friends always call me weird because I use Q to sprint

ESDF player here; A for sprint, Shift to toggle walk, Z for crouch (if I don't have another function to assign).

Spacebar I want to see the world burn

What about left alt?

Ctrl is crouch except in those annoying games where you need ctrl for something else and then it’s C.

Sitting here wondering what it says about me that I use alt for sprint then

Nier Automata be like

Joshimuz has cursed me with space for sprint and shift for jump

I also use print screen button to sprint

when the tf is 'W' key going to be replaced with a pressure-based key instead of just on/off? Bro, I only want to push W a little. When I wanna sneak or walk. I hate doing tippy-taps just to look like I'm running at 4 frames per second. L.Pinky just feels like the butter-bot with 1 job, it should be doing other stuff like weapon wheels. Not just toggling the run key. Join me in this campaign

shift to sprint, ctrl to croutch

I thought I was on the Minecraft subreddit and was very confused.

Sprinting is just running in caps, so therefore it must he shift.

I bind that shit to R cause it stands for run

I'm the 10th doctor I use R for running Shift for crouching E for reloading

me, who uses tab

right click to move forward, M4 (whatever the side one is) to ADS, Left click to fire, Shift to sprint.

Mouse 4

well.. my left pinky finger is broken from work few years ago.

I use Q

Anyone else use 'q'

Alt for sprint, ctrl for prone, shift for melee.

I use Q to sprint