Are there one-key alternatives to apple-down and apple-up?

Having come from a Windows and Linux background, one of the most frustrating things about moving to OSX has been the Finder shortcuts for 'open' (apple-down) and 'go to parent dir' (apple-up). I can't for the life of me imagine why the two most common operations in a file browsing app require a two-finger key combo.
Are there any single key alternatives for these commands, or is there a way to set them up? The backspace/enter behaviour of Windows is what I'm really after.
I find it amazing that both enter and spacebar on OSX are bound to the 'rename file' function, which has to be about a zillion times less common in use than 'open this file'.

System Preferences/Keyboard & Mouse/Keyboard Shortcuts/
Click on the + sign to add a new shortcut
In the Application dropdown choose Finder.app
In the Menu Title box type - Open (or any other command as show in an application's menus)
Choose a key - I used F2 as it didn't seem to be used.
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