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> it turns out that characters on the left occur 58.73% of the time, and those on the right 41.3% of the time. This is certainly not helped by the fact that the
by ZoFreX 14y ago
> it turns out that characters on the left occur 58.73% of the time, and those on the right 41.3% of the time. This is certainly not helped by the fact that the right side has 11 letters to the left’s 15
Actually, if you ignore the letter frequencies entirely, this is only 1% off what you would expect based on the 11/15 split. As others have pointed out, the difference here is made up by punctuation. It would be interesting to measure frequency of key usage including punctuation and see which side (if any) comes out on top.
One thing I have noticed is that most control commands (copy, paste, close window, switch window, &c) are left dominant, which makes sense if you have the mouse in your right hand.
- majormajor 14y agoBased on a thoroughly scientific glance at the white keycaps on the Apple keyboard I use at my desk at work—which get amazingly dirty amazingly quickly—the most used key's when I'm working are largely punctuation: some set of 9, 0, [, ], backspace, \, enter, shift, and /. Surprisingly, my left shift key is cleaner than my capslock key at the moment, which I didn't expect at all given how much I hit shift-9 and shift-0 in particular. But this is probably horribly biased because when I get a snack I eat it with my right hand, which I assume makes keys on that side get dirtier quicker.
- hammock 14y agoFor the curious, WhatPulse is an app you can download that will keep track of your keystrokes (I'm sure there are others that do the same)
- sirdavidoff 14y agoPerhaps the keys you use more often are cleaner than the others?