Prepare for a mild shock: Scrolling on that little wheel on your mouse is not the only way to navigate down a website – and by no means the fastest.

To be sure, the mouse wheel for scrolling is handy – no doubt about it. But if you want to work faster and move your hands around less, then you're probably better off just using the keyboard alone and not switching back and forth all the time.

To do this it helps if you scroll with your keyboard instead: All you have to do to jump downwards on any website in your browser is to hit the spacebar. To get back up again, hold down shift while you hit the spacebar. This trick works in Firefox, Chrome and Opera.

Pretty soon, you'll notice your right hand doesn't need to switch back to the mouse nearly as often.

Another trick to keep both hands on the keyboard when working on websites is to switch between browser tabs with Ctrl + Tab or Ctrl + Shift + Tab. – dpa