⌨️ Lesson: Type the Open Square Bracket ([)
The open square bracket ([) is typed with [. Use your right pinky — no Shift needed. 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 Open Square Bracket ([) Correctly
The open square bracket — also called left square bracket, opening bracket — lives on the top row of a standard US keyboard. Tap the [ key with your right pinky — no Shift needed. It sits right of the P key. Reach up and right with your right pinky.
Square brackets mark editorial notes, array indexes in code and optional items in documentation. 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.
Press the [ key with your right pinky. No Shift is needed.
Your right pinky types the [ key. It does not need Shift.
Square brackets mark editorial notes, array indexes in code and optional items in documentation.
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