I've been having trouble finding a good layout for my keyboard controls. If you have any suggestions please share!
I'd suggest this layout or a variation thereof: Up/Down - Fast/Slow drops Left/Right - Left/Right shifts Z/X - CCW/CW rotations Space - Hold If you want a third rotation button -- a secondary CCW rotation, a 180 rotation, what have you -- C is the perfect place to put it.
If you're right-handed I suggest w or s - hard drop / firm drop s or d - soft drop a - left d or f - right i or j - rotate left o or k - rotate right p or l - optional third rotation button space - hold
I'm right-handed, but I use right-hand movement on keyboard and left-hand movement on stick. That's really more of a preference thing. I'm used to right-hand movement for most things -- excepting FPS, obviously -- so that's what I tend to play for Tetris.
colemak. [/lame] Yeah that's definitely a preference. I can play Tetris attack with right-hand movement on keyboard and left-hand movement on d-pad, whee. I bet I could do left-hand movement on keyboard too, actually. I can not for the life of me do right-hand movement for tetris though. My left hand doesn't know how to rotate ; When I started TGM i figured I'd move to stick eventually so to ease that transition I've been using left-hand movement. My preferred control scheme is arrow keys for movement, and numpad 1,2,3 for rotation, with 0 for hold. It's pretty awesome, unless you're on a laptop keyboard in which case you have to do wasd or szxc or whatever. Of course you could always play typomino too
Alternatively I find that A/S for rotate makes my thumb rest more comfortably on the spacebar for hold. Note that all the above layouts are posted using a QWERTY layout, not AZERTY or anything else.
