Tips to improve "Hotkey Skills"?

[h@YLey11*K*]

Merry x.mas hello just struggling on hotkeys on many heroes with active skills like invo and tinker...
Any guides... thanks for ur consideration --Kate

[corbet]

as for the game you can use only your left hand. this is what i do: set your buttons for standard typing position. where your pointer finger is on "f". in this position your hand can reach a much much much much larger amount of keys than if you had your pointer finger on "e" or "r". I use my main abilities on "s" "d" "f" and my ult which is used less on "a" my pinky is my weakest finger, so i don't set hot keys i would use more frequently for my pinky. I still use items for the number keys "4" "3" "2" "5" and "1", as you can guess "1" is last case scenario because my pinky is the weakest finger. I set my other things I use for q w e r t g z x c v b. I have my shop window on "g", and select all units on "r" and select just my hero on "e" and select all other units on "w" and select courier on "q" and courier movespeed boost on "t" and attack command on "x" and chat wheel on "z" and pause is on "b".

I do own a razor naga and have a macro set for it where i can just hold one button and i can win any courier tug of war just by holding my one button on my razor naga. i could even have it set where pressing the button repeats the macro recorded, and then pressing that button again shuts it off. so i win any tug of war with couriers with no effort, while the guy i am battling the courier for is rapidly pressing buttons breaking his keyboard amd/or his mouse and/or his joints.

[Darth Mark]

I'm hardly a pro (about 1000 games), but I think it's just logical positions and then just a lot of practice.

Personally I have my abilities set as qwerf (undecided on the last one), and by items 123456. When playing, I move my most used active items closest to 3 as possible, as they're just easier for my fingers to reach, as I normally have my index finger on R, so it's not hard to shift quickly.
I also have level up on G, stats on D, stop on S and manual attack (to deny) on A, select me and crees on V, select me on SPACE and select just creeps on B, and voice talk as T.

If I were to map it out, you'd see a very logical set of keys used that take up one one portion of the keyboard, with no key outside of this being used.

[PAPA CENTNER]

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