[philip]

t - move
y - rotate
shift-h - scale
h - stretch
ctrl-t - drag tool (drag vertices around)
shift-x - make a box
shift-o - make a ball
p - make polgygon from selected points
ctrl-p - make spline from selected points
ctrl-w - welds selected points at the location of the last selected
m - merge points (either automatic or with tolerance, popup menu)
shift-e - extrude
b - bevel
Tab - toggle SubPatches
shift-k - knife tool
shift-f - smoothshift (like bevel but for groups of polys)
ctrl-v - set value (enter x y or z value for selected elements)
shift-v - mirror

these should get you going, if you have useful additions to these, post them in this thread.

cheers,

philip