Timeline for Are there any studies on which keyboard keys get pressed the most?
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| Jun 5, 2021 at 20:04 | comment | added | Marco Luglio | I also found this, which seems to match what I experince. "back in 1898, it was widely accepted that the most-used key on keyboards was the space bar, followed by the letter E. Some sources still adhere to that convention." "these days, habits have changed. That's because a lot of people who were once casual computer users have switched to using smartphones and tablets with touchscreens" "work, in contrast, tend to replace the vowel keys — A, E, I, O and U — and the spacebar and the arrow keys" Source: computer.howstuffworks.com/… | |
| Jun 5, 2021 at 19:46 | comment | added | Marco Luglio | I'm using a keylogger software for a while and the keys I press the most on my keyboard are the arrow keys! So far around 22k presses for down arrow vs 18k for command, 14k for spacebar, 14k for left and right shift combined, 10k for E, 10k for A, 9k for return/enter, 8k for the delete key, 6k for the backspace, 2k for esc, around 300 for each number. I'm a left handed developer, non gamer, using a full size keyboard. | |
| Dec 28, 2011 at 20:25 | history | tweeted | twitter.com/#!/StackUX/status/152122990786646016 | ||
| Dec 28, 2011 at 15:04 | comment | added | CaffGeek | I WISH my arrow keys were nicely in the corner like that on my laptop. Instead, they are jammed in between the keys, and a numpad, however, they aren't full size keys, making them even harder to push. AND the newer laptops that re-use the F keys for other purposes (volume, brightness, etc), and require you to push the fn key to use the F keys. | |
| Dec 28, 2011 at 14:45 | comment | added | Zelda | I can't seem to find any studies making a proper heatmap of keyboard use, it seems a study would be quite easy using keylogger software. Some non-experimental results suggest arrow key use isn't that great, but I suspect PC gamers would have very different heat maps. | |
| Dec 28, 2011 at 14:40 | comment | added | Zelda | There's a very interesting project that's created a "keyboard heatmap" that has some interesting studies but it only covers the text input keys (as it analyzes text post mortem, not arrow key/ect use mid typing.) | |
| Dec 28, 2011 at 14:34 | answer | added | AndroidHustle | timeline score: 1 | |
| Dec 28, 2011 at 13:56 | history | asked | RomanSt | CC BY-SA 3.0 |