-Finally, because the special Escape sequence is so natural and useful, on the top right corner of the Ergodox EZ you can do the same gesture with the 0 key to produce a Backspace. Users of this keyboard and this layout are well advised to learn to use their thumbs for deleting text, but sometimes you are doing other computery things and just want to flick your digits up to the right and press backspace a bunch times. These special sequences should feel unremarkably mundane but might prove to be remarkably useful.
+The One True Location for the Escape key is segregated way up on the top left of the keyboard. The Ergodox does not have a physical button in such a location and the nearest one is home to the tilde (er, grave) which is commonly found there. In the Ordinary layout the Escape key is found on all layers in the prominent location in the corner next to the 5, whnich is easy to remember, and yet it isn't natural for those of us with muscle memory flicking our wrists up and to the left looking for Escape.
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+The Ordinary layout offers as a consolation prize a Special sequence for Escape: Special Shift + 1. This is natural so you can tap the top left button, then the button next to it and get Escape. This gesture works in all layers.
+
+### Backspace ###
+
+At the top right corner of the Ergodox EZ you can a gesture similar to the special Escape sequence, using the 0 key, to produce a Backspace. Users of this keyboard and this layout are well advised to learn to use their thumbs for deleting text, but sometimes you are doing other computery things and just want to flick your digits up to the right and press backspace a bunch times.
+
+### RShift ###
+
+The Ordinary Layout locks layers by pressing both of a pair of shift keys. This interferes with the QMK firmware magic sequence, which is LShift+RShift. To work around this, both of the Capitals Shift keys produce a *Left Shift* keystroke. If for some reason a person needs *Right Shift* they can find it by pressing a Special Shift key, then the Capitals Shift key on the right side of the keyboard.
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+The Ordinary Layout for the Ergodox EZ keyboard, v4
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+Modifications from default by Nicholas Keene ergodoxez@nicholaskeene.com
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+No rights reserved. This software is in the public domain. Credit me if you are friendly but if you're a jerk don't bother.
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+Details: readme.md
+ https://github.com/nrrkeene/qmk_firmware/tree/master/keyboard/ergodox_ez/keymaps/ordinary