Hot off the presses from Lifehacker headquarters LA (i.e., just discovered this morning in my dining room-cum-office) comes my favorite new keyboard shortcut, Control-Backspace (Windows)/Option-Delete (Mac).

Ctrl-Backspace/Option-Delete will delete the entire word to the left of your cursor in one keystroke, meaning no holding down and waiting to individually delete every letter from Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious - the swift shortcut will take care of the whole word in one fell swoop.


Additionally, Ctrl-Delete/Option-Fn-Delete (at least that's what it is on my MacBook Pro) will delete the entire word to the right of the cursor. As someone who previously did a lot of Ctrl-Shift-Left to highlight and then hit Backspace to get rid of unwanted words quickly - let's just say I didn't know true love could strike thrice in a lifetime (I'm looking at you Quicksilver and AutoHotKey).