Keyboard keys you have never pressed

>>58705967
keys above my arrow keys

F1

>>58706035
you madman

multimedia keys

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>>58705967

>>58706035

this, if we define "never" as in "never intentionally"

>>58706063

>owning any computer with "multimedia keys"

>>58705967
I have a 60% keyboard and the keys I never press are, the menu key (image) and the left alt.
Then at the function level the keys I never press are the page down, page up.

>>58705967
insert, print screen and pause i hardly use

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>>58705967

If you don't use standard key it's just mean that you're using your mouse like thsoe who can't use computers.

>>58706115
> hot j
are you using vim-style browsing?

>>58706131
Yep, and esc-capslock swap.

Right Control

When is your hand ever in a position to use it?

ScrollLock ...

>>58706152
Always?

F13

>>58706152
I read this post, looked at my right hand, and my pinkie was right over right Ctrl. That being said, I never use it. Nor right Shift.

>>58706169
Are you left handed, maybe?

Hands branch out from F and J, with the right hand going for the mouse.

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>>58705967

AltGr and Scroll Lock. Although I have both bound to some rrely used actions.

>>58706151
>esc-capslock
why not ctrl/caps though?
most hotkeys still need ctrl even if you are using vim scheme in some applications, and esc can be rebound to anything in vim-like applications.

>>58705967
Pause/Break
Scroll Lock

>>58706182
No, but I'm using the 10 finger system when I type/code, so with stuff like CTRL+C/X/V I'm using my right pinky for CTRL (when not using the mouse, obviously).

>>58706199
>why not ctrl/caps though?
I like the position of bottom row ctrl, I've never understood why so many people dislike it (unless they're 50+). And I use escape often for other things as well, it's a generally useful key imo.

Right Ctrl, Alt, and windows key. I use the menu key a lot actually, makes navigating without a mouse easier.

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>>58705967
⌹, ◇, ⌿, ∘

>>58706290
The fuck am I looking at?

>>58706106
more keys = better, you homo

>>58706243
>I've never understood why so many people dislike it
because it involves twisting your pinky, and caps lock is in ideal position for ctrl, for many people

>>58706035
>Those fucking useless help dialogs
It is even worse when you consider that one tends to hit the wrong keys when he is most frustrated or in a hurry.

>>58706115
>dat j
it is probably my least used key, because it doesn't work (shitty acer laptop). I had to copy paste it.

Any good keyboards without bloat? And yes I need the num keys

Right control.
Mayys ir num lock keys.
Ñ.
That wierd C.

Those pretty much.
And yes i do use scroll lock.
I use excel a lot.

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>>58706312
a keyboard for superior beings

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>>58705967
Insert. Fuck that key.
Fuck it so hard.

I thought my PC had a virus back in the day when it started to type over sentences. I had to fucking reinstall everything because I had no idea how to fix it, or what it was. This was back in 1996 tho.

still hate that fucking key.


Otherwise the only key I never ever ever ever ever used is SysRq. No idea what it even does.

>>58706354
You could build one yourself or buy a Poker and a separate numpad

>>58706363
>I thought my PC had a virus back in the day when it started to type over sentences.

topkek

this also happened to me when i was 12 back in '94.

>>58706363
>Otherwise the only key I never ever ever ever ever used is SysRq. No idea what it even does.
When the X server locks up you can recover with sysrq. I've done this a few times. Not exactly a key you use every day though.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magic_SysRq_key

>>58706361
Why is there a fish on the A key?

>>58705967
like never ever? I think i've pressed them all. I was going to say pause/break but i believe i used that button in some online game i used to play a while back.

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>>58706354

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>>58706312
APL programmers like fishing apparently

>>58706363
>>58706405
TI calculators (TI81-84) had an insert key which you were pretty much forced to use if you wrote programs etc. Those calculators were of course in the replace mode per default.

>>58706436
Why would someone buy a keyboard without the numpad? Seems silly.

>>58706426
Christian keyboard.

>>58706438
>>58706426

>>58706457
There are tons of mechanical keyboards without numpad. Laptops, too.

>>58706436
> having a keyboard without numpad because /mkg/ hipsters said it's cool
> bying a separate numpad
> having two different keyboard instead of one as a result
fucking hipsters

>>58706068
I always map it to the Pause media key

>>58706457
The numpad is pretty much useless.
also redundancy

>>58706479
>The numpad is pretty much useless.
Speak for yourself, thanks.

>>58706474
Laptops are gay, they don't count.

>>58706479
Really? I use it all the time when I need to type numbers.

>>58706475
To be fair, when entering tons of numeric data I often wished to be able to detach my numpad and place it at a more convenient position on my table.

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>>58706438
>NONCE ERROR

>>58706457
who else here uses their numpad when gayming?

>>58706485
>>58706487
Well i'm sorry but it's just faster not to use it.

>>58705967
Scroll Lock
SysRq
Pause
Break
Insert
Num pad
Menu

I literally have no use of them

>>58706342
Start pressing control with the bone just before the pinky starts.

>>58706457
If you remove the numpad, your hands are closer together when you're using the mouse, which many find more comfortable. Some of these people also need a numpad to enter numbers from time to time, so they need to have a numpad somewhere. Some people may prefer to have their numpad on the left side of the keyboard for various reasons. It's very rare to find this on complete keyboards, so it's easier to buy a small keyboard and a separate numpad.

>>58706494
ARMA players, for example. And other simmers.

>>58706522
wut?

I've never used the 'A' key. It just seems like I would never need to use it.

>>58706522
I do this too

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I only ever press 'Insert' when I accidentally press delete and change the text entry mode

all the other keys, even the context menu one, I use occasionally.

>>58706575
i use it every day on pornsites

>>58706525
>If you remove the numpad, your hands are closer together when you're using the mouse, which many find more comfortable
those are clearly people who never experienced the bless of low mouse sensitivity

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>>58706457

on laptops with a numpad, the trackpad is not centered

this triggers me

>>58706598
>>58706111
>>58706363
>>58706405
>>58706510
>>58706598
Protip: Shift+Ins is the same as Ctrl-V

>>58706646
It's centered relative to your hands position though.

>>58706654
so is Alt-F4

>>58706115
I could tell you're a vim user by just looking at that pick. Nice!

>>58706661
but when i actually use it on my lap, having my hands in that position throws off the balance of the whole laptop

>>58705967
very rarely press
F3, F6, F7, F8, F10, Scroll Lock, Insert

≣ is probably one of my most used keys, when writing.

>>58706055
Type better.

>>58706475
I actually want a left handed numpad though. The only way to do so is with a TKL keyboard and a detached numpad.

>>58706478
That's what spacebar is for dingus.

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>>58706848
> using a tool intended to be used against kiosk vandals to restrict yourself

Holy fuck. Did you guys know there is a / key on the numpad? I have never seen it before, but it's obviously been here the whole time.

Also, I don't think I've pressed Page Up/Page Down this millennium.

>>58707117
>I don't think I've pressed Page Up/Page Down this millennium.

how do you quickly scroll up and down webpages?

>>58707166
Space/Shift + Space

>>58705967
Actually, Emacs maps M-x to <menu>, so I use it a lot. Come to think of it, I should probably map insert to something useful too. Never have I once pressed it when I wanted to use it.

>>58707210
fair enough... carry on

>>58707166
With a mouse. I'm never in enough of a rush to need to go faster than that.

>>58707166
Ctrl-d and Ctrl-u in qutebrowser.

Or middle-click scrolling, sometimes.

Linux key

>>58706479

You can type numbers way faster if your properly use the numpad.

Using numpad as arrow keys is useless though.
Also I never use pause/ break or the menu key and have an old mechanical keyboard with a "MACRO" key that I ave no idea wtf it does.

i used pause/break a few times during during boot to buy some time so i could plug in a device and before the OS loaded

>>58706055
type like a neanderthal

>>58705967
None, I need all of them.

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>>58706055

>>58706312
Greenlandic

>>58706810
Pause media is used to pause shit without being tabbed in the program playing it, dingus.

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I use the context key often in applications that don't support multi-select actions, as well as in some other situations like triggering rename via the keyboard only in file explorers. On Windows it's context, m

I've always used the keyboard more than the mouse even in gui programs, things like alt+whatever for file menu actions.

>>58705967
I've used that one before, when alt-tabbing from some programs that use a dll extender so when you alt-tab it doesn't giv you a mouse back, (admittedly I'm talking about Skyrim with SKSE) - so if it crashes the only way to exit is to alt-tab, ctrl-shift-esc for task manager, tab and arrow key to select Skyrim.exe and use that key to bring up the context menu to then select end task.

Nobody cares but i thought i'd stick up for the underdog key here, someone has a use for you. Actually a lot of keys are useful for situations when you don't have a mouse, windows (and probably other OSs too) are often designed to technically be fully useable without a mouse.

>>58706290
>⌹
>unused
learn apl

>>58706115
vim-like scrolling?

>>58706363
Insert is actually ocassionally helpful when you know the length of something is the same as something you need to replace. Which in my mind is basically the whole point of the key.

>>58705967
>he actually uses the mouse

F7
Doesn't seem to be significant in any programs, and it doubles as a quick way to adjust the screen settings for a projector.

F8
Doesn't seem to be significant in any programs, and it doubles as a key for switching to airplane mode, something I can already do in a swipe and a tap.

F4, once again is not a common key in any programs, and it just disables/enables my mic which I never use.

All other keys I use though.
Except CapsLock, which I only ever press by mistake.

>>58710422
>F4
>not a common key in any programs
kek