seriously, then ignore most of them.  you don't even need most of the ones i posted.  even in 2.49, i think every single shortcut has a menu item associated with it.

you know why i found Blender way easier than Hexagon myself? i started with morphs.  import, scale, switch to sculpt mode, and away i went.  by the time i started actually making stuff, i'd done a lot of playing around in sculpt mode.  and even now, i'm better with cloth sims and dynamics than polygon modeling.

checking, i see Hexagon now has sculpting, but it didn't when i bought it and tried to learn it. and i had interface problems that i just didn't in Blender.  not because i was used to Blender, because at the time i wasn't.  i just knew what i wanted to do, and when i looked that up in Blender, there was tons of straightforward information.  in Hexagon, not so much at the time. 

everyone i watched say they loved it said they started off with beginners tutorials, so they started with making what the tutorials told them to, rather than immediately trying to get it to do what they wanted. and i kind of did that with the Noob to Pro for Blender.  i think that can make learning an app easier.

but at least i understood how some people could like Hexagon.  i loathed Max's interface.  and the tutorials i tried took 2 million steps to do anything.  i tried it before Blender, and moved on happily.  i know Max has power, but whuff!  the interface had pretty obviously grown organically when i'd seen it. maybe it's more unified and streamlined now, but i no longer have access to it.