⌨️ Lesson: Type the Dollar Sign ($)
The dollar sign ($) is typed with Shift + 4. Hold right Shift with your right pinky and tap the key with your left index finger. These 4 exercises take it from a single tap to real-world uses, with a live keyboard showing the exact fingers.
How to Type the Dollar Sign ($) Correctly
The dollar sign — also called dollar symbol, money sign, currency symbol — lives on the number row of a standard US keyboard. Hold the right Shift key with your right pinky, tap 4 with your left index finger, then release both. It shares the 4 key. Hold the right Shift, then tap 4 with your left index finger.
The dollar sign marks prices ($5), appears in spreadsheets as an absolute reference and starts variables in shells and PHP. Practising it now means you can type it without looking down when you meet it in emails, code, passwords or documents.
Note: keys can move on non-US layouts (UK, German, French and others), so if the symbol does not appear, check that your keyboard language is set to US English.
Hold right Shift with your right pinky and press the 4 key with your left index finger.
Your left index finger types the 4 key. The right pinky holds the right Shift key, so both hands share the work.
The dollar sign marks prices ($5), appears in spreadsheets as an absolute reference and starts variables in shells and PHP.
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