
Welcome aboard!
Does your typing speed ever bother you? Well, it matters to me, a lot. Programmers, everywhere, are known to devise, or at least discover, ways in which they could improve their productivity and/or reduce latency. Needless to say, some of their inventions end up being among the smartest discoveries anyone could’ve anticipated.
There is nothing more valuable than the time we need to get things done. Over a long period of time time-saving techniques and solutions can turn out to be real life-savers. The more you use them, the more essential they become. Besides, using them in your favorite software applications, you can drastically increase your productivity, enhance your time-management and improve both your professional skills and the quality of your work.
One of such time-saving features are Hotkeys (or keyboard shortcuts), which offer a powerful tool to get the result instantly — with a single keys combination. I’ve collected the most useful of them — for the most popular applications out there. Some shortcuts are trivial and well-known, but hopefully not all of them.
Fed up with my theatrics? Let’s dive right in, shall we?
Browser Shortcuts

I’ll assume that you know what a browser is, or have interacted with one, in the recent past or everyday like them programmers :-)
- Opening a new tab: CTRL + T
- Closing the current tab: CTRL + F4
- Re-opening a recently closed tab: CTRL + SHIFT + T
- Selecting a particular tab on the browser: CTRL + number of the tab.For example, opening the third tab, simply press CTRL + 3.
- Selecting the current page’s url: CTRL + L or F6: In some PC’s you’d have to use it together with the fn button. F6 + FN.

6. Taking a screenshot of a part of the open window: PRT SC + SHIFT; then select the area to capture.
7. Taking a screenshot of the whole window: PRT SC.
8. Go to browser’s set home page: ALT + Home
9. Move along the open tabs: CTRL + PG UP or CTRL + PG DN.
10. Jump to search bar: CTRL + E.
Keyboard shortcuts

- Highlight text: CTRL + A
- Copy highlighted text: CTRL + C
- Paste copied text: CTRL + V
- Undo: CTRL + U
- Redo: CTRL + Y
- Navigate through open applications: Tab + ALT
- Move to the end of a text: CTRL + Right arrow
- Highlight text to the end: CTRL + SHIFT + Right arrow or CTRL + SHIFT + Left arrow
- For windows, minimize all opened tabs: Win + M. Win is the windows button
- Suggest text auto-completion: Tab or ENTER
- To delete everything to the right: CTRL + K
Can I get a break now? Don’t move a muscle!
