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Paul O'Donnell <odonnellp@rogers.com> writes:

> I don't know which fingers to use to press [the Alt and Ctrl] keys.

For me, the key to the left of A is a ctrl key.  I press that with
the fifth finger of the left hand.

For the alt key (it's known as meta in Emacs), I always use the left
thumb.  Now that I think about it it turns out that I very rarely use
the right meta key.

Another thing I do (which reduces the need for meta and ctrl) is to
bind the function keys, in sequences of length two.  So for example,
<f2> is the prefix for window-related things, so <f2> <f2> is
other-window, <f2> <f3> is delete-other-windows, <f2> <f4> is
delete-window.  Here's how to do it:

(global-set-key (kbd "<f2> <f2>") 'other-window)

I'm sure you can modify this for the other keys.

You could think up a scheme to use then implement it.  (I have
reserved <f9> for major modes, for example.)
-- 
Ambibibentists unite!