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Title: What is your least favorite key on your keyboard? Why?
Post by: dadgh on Thu, 25 July 2013, 20:57:53
Mine has to be (http://i.imgur.com/3mKIivN.png)

I have to use ampersand all the time for my job and I'm unable to hit that key without pivoting my right hand. It's either a pivot to the left with my index finger or a pivot to the right with my middle finger.

Hate it.
Title: Re: What is your least favorite key on your keyboard? Why?
Post by: SpAmRaY on Thu, 25 July 2013, 20:59:22
It's a tie between Scroll Lock and Pause
Title: Re: What is your least favorite key on your keyboard? Why?
Post by: dadgh on Thu, 25 July 2013, 20:59:34
It's a tie between Scroll Lock and Pause

but why, I never have to use those keys so they don't bother me at all
Title: Re: What is your least favorite key on your keyboard? Why?
Post by: Xenderwind on Thu, 25 July 2013, 21:00:04
It's a tie between Scroll Lock and Pause

but why

I think I would kind of agree...only because I've never known what they actually do.
Title: Re: What is your least favorite key on your keyboard? Why?
Post by: SpAmRaY on Thu, 25 July 2013, 21:01:21
It's a tie between Scroll Lock and Pause

but why, I never have to use those keys so they don't bother me at all

^^ that's why! I don't use them.
Title: Re: What is your least favorite key on your keyboard? Why?
Post by: dadgh on Thu, 25 July 2013, 21:02:15
It's a tie between Scroll Lock and Pause

but why, I never have to use those keys so they don't bother me at all

^^ that's why! I don't use them.

That's a good thing! You can remap them to anything you want.
Title: Re: What is your least favorite key on your keyboard? Why?
Post by: JPG on Thu, 25 July 2013, 21:04:16
For me, it's the [ and ] because I speak French and in French they are used for some accents on letters that are not so common but common enough to be annoying since I always mistype these 2 (and I have to use them with shift and just before the letter that requires the accent).

For typing, accents sucks hard!
Title: Re: What is your least favorite key on your keyboard? Why?
Post by: nubbinator on Thu, 25 July 2013, 23:04:08
Caps Lock.  It's a worthless key unless you're Kanye West and blogging.  Following that, I've never understood why "\"  and "/" are split and not right next to each other.  We pair every other symbol, but not those two, that would make too much sense.
Title: Re: What is your least favorite key on your keyboard? Why?
Post by: TimIsABat on Thu, 25 July 2013, 23:09:58
Caps Lock.  It's a worthless key unless you're Kanye West and blogging.  Following that, I've never understood why "\"  and "/" are split and not right next to each other.  We pair every other symbol, but not those two, that would make too much sense.

After I switched this to backspace after switching to Colemak, I don't mind the key anymore.

I agree with the OP in that ampersand is really awkward to get to.  For the most part, after switching to Colemak, most of the keys aren't too bad to get to.
Title: Re: What is your least favorite key on your keyboard? Why?
Post by: dorkvader on Thu, 25 July 2013, 23:25:32
Caps Lock.  It's a worthless key unless you're Kanye West and blogging.  Following that, I've never understood why "\"  and "/" are split and not right next to each other.  We pair every other symbol, but not those two, that would make too much sense.

on some terminal keybaords \ and / are on the same key. Also dvorak puts them near eathother seperated by =

my least favourite key is spacebar for sure. I have a lot of problems with stabilizers, and spacebar just makes it worse.
Title: Re: What is your least favorite key on your keyboard? Why?
Post by: TimIsABat on Thu, 25 July 2013, 23:29:13
Caps Lock.  It's a worthless key unless you're Kanye West and blogging.  Following that, I've never understood why "\"  and "/" are split and not right next to each other.  We pair every other symbol, but not those two, that would make too much sense.

on some terminal keybaords \ and / are on the same key. Also dvorak puts them near eathother seperated by =

my least favourite key is spacebar for sure. I have a lot of problems with stabilizers, and spacebar just makes it worse.

I honestly don't see why people complain so much about their stabilizers. Even before I clipped my Cherry stabilizers, it really wasn't that big of a problem.
Title: Re: What is your least favorite key on your keyboard? Why?
Post by: AuRinBei on Thu, 25 July 2013, 23:34:39
K. He knows why.

But really anything with Cherry stabilizers. It's like, ugh, what's the point of even having a mechanical switch there if you're going to put those in. Never again.
Title: Re: What is your least favorite key on your keyboard? Why?
Post by: dorkvader on Thu, 25 July 2013, 23:53:15
Caps Lock.  It's a worthless key unless you're Kanye West and blogging.  Following that, I've never understood why "\"  and "/" are split and not right next to each other.  We pair every other symbol, but not those two, that would make too much sense.

on some terminal keybaords \ and / are on the same key. Also dvorak puts them near eathother seperated by =

my least favourite key is spacebar for sure. I have a lot of problems with stabilizers, and spacebar just makes it worse.

I honestly don't see why people complain so much about their stabilizers. Even before I clipped my Cherry stabilizers, it really wasn't that big of a problem.
I've got a lot of keyboards, and only some have cherry stabilizers.

Cherry costar, the stabilizers on this RD with NKRO, the stabilizer on my clicky hall effect keyboard, my linear hall effect keyboard, etc. They all tend to bind up unless I hit them over the switch, negating the point of a stabilizer. Might as well switch to 7bit layout on my phantom.
Title: Re: What is your least favorite key on your keyboard? Why?
Post by: pandather on Thu, 25 July 2013, 23:54:33
Insert, sometimes I press it instead of delete, and then it screws me over.
Title: Re: What is your least favorite key on your keyboard? Why?
Post by: rootwyrm on Thu, 25 July 2013, 23:57:51
I absolutely hate all the keys on modern Cherry keyboards. I am positive if I measure them, I will find they are in fact, somewhat more narrowly spaced than a Model M. This makes me hate them a lot. I frequently move my hands from the keyboard and there is absolutely nothing as annoying as going to hit ^W and instead getting Win+E or Shift+3.
Title: Re: What is your least favorite key on your keyboard? Why?
Post by: daerid on Fri, 26 July 2013, 00:29:34
Easily CapsLock. I didn't even bother with it on my ErgoDox, and every other board has it remapped to Control (the way god intended). Seconded by Scroll Lock (completely useless in everything except Excel and KVMs).

As a software dev, I find that I use pretty much every other key quite frequently (yes, even the Context Menu/Apps key).
Title: Re: What is your least favorite key on your keyboard? Why?
Post by: Sniping on Fri, 26 July 2013, 00:39:50
Spacebar. It makes that terrible plastic-y slap sounds that ruins the thocking and the ABS forces me to put tape over key.
Title: Re: What is your least favorite key on your keyboard? Why?
Post by: jeffgran on Fri, 26 July 2013, 01:03:33
Mine has to be
Show Image
(http://i.imgur.com/3mKIivN.png)


I have to use ampersand all the time for my job and I'm unable to hit that key without pivoting my right hand. It's either a pivot to the left with my index finger or a pivot to the right with my middle finger.

Hate it.

I second that. Although I could put 5/% and 6/^ in the same category. They're a reach so you have to move your entire arm when you need to type one of them.
Title: Re: What is your least favorite key on your keyboard? Why?
Post by: esoomenona on Fri, 26 July 2013, 01:09:25
Wouldn't it be nice instead of having a numpad with movement features that no one uses, you could use it to hit all those characters as well via shift? Hmm, may have to do that.
Title: Re: What is your least favorite key on your keyboard? Why?
Post by: Sifo on Fri, 26 July 2013, 01:50:02
Insert.
Title: Re: What is your least favorite key on your keyboard? Why?
Post by: PointyFox on Fri, 26 July 2013, 01:50:58
Insert.

That.  It causes the most confusion/damage if you accidentally press it.
Title: Re: What is your least favorite key on your keyboard? Why?
Post by: Narcix on Fri, 26 July 2013, 01:59:05
Scroll Lock
Title: Re: What is your least favorite key on your keyboard? Why?
Post by: PointyFox on Fri, 26 July 2013, 02:02:22
Scroll Lock

Scroll Lock is useful for navigating Excel with the arrow keys.
Title: Re: What is your least favorite key on your keyboard? Why?
Post by: tormentor on Fri, 26 July 2013, 02:06:42
My up arrow. It sticks because i tear them up on FFR.
Title: Re: What is your least favorite key on your keyboard? Why?
Post by: Matt3o on Fri, 26 July 2013, 02:09:23
if you dislike "pause" you clearly never built a custom firmware :) ... or you did and remapped the bootloader kickstart key.
Title: Re: What is your least favorite key on your keyboard? Why?
Post by: rowdy on Fri, 26 July 2013, 02:17:45
I like all my keys equally.
Title: Re: What is your least favorite key on your keyboard? Why?
Post by: mauri on Fri, 26 July 2013, 05:07:53
Left control, it's under my palm and completely inaccessible :<
Title: Re: What is your least favorite key on your keyboard? Why?
Post by: godly_music on Fri, 26 July 2013, 06:02:24
Windows Key! I hated those so much when I still had a keyboard that had them. My daily driver right now doesn't. So.. number two. Either Capslock or Escape. Capslock is that guy who just wants to be useful but always ends up getting in the way. Escape because I'm an optimist and don't need that ****.
Title: Re: What is your least favorite key on your keyboard? Why?
Post by: dadgh on Fri, 26 July 2013, 07:42:36
Insert.

That.  It causes the most confusion/damage if you accidentally press it.

None of you haters on Insert must use Linux.
Title: Re: What is your least favorite key on your keyboard? Why?
Post by: Jack Karneval on Fri, 26 July 2013, 07:47:18
Honestly it would probably the Pause/Break key, because I never bloody use it lol
Title: Re: What is your least favorite key on your keyboard? Why?
Post by: Lastpilot on Fri, 26 July 2013, 07:48:34
In terms of function? Menu key. In terms of looks? Supers.
Title: Re: What is your least favorite key on your keyboard? Why?
Post by: SpAmRaY on Fri, 26 July 2013, 07:48:49
On retrospect.....I'm going to go with 'F1', I always accidentally hit it when going for escape!!
Title: Re: What is your least favorite key on your keyboard? Why?
Post by: gropingmantis on Fri, 26 July 2013, 08:02:05
Easily CapsLock. All the other useless trash can be removed by getting a 60% but still that worthless key prevails.

Y U NO SHIFT LOCK!?!?!?!
Title: Re: What is your least favorite key on your keyboard? Why?
Post by: oTurtlez on Fri, 26 July 2013, 08:03:06
Insert. It does more harm than good. Ever remember being a highschool student working on Word 97 and for some reason you're overwriting all of your essay as you're trying to add something and you don't know what's happening or why?
Title: Re: What is your least favorite key on your keyboard? Why?
Post by: Dubsgalore on Fri, 26 July 2013, 08:04:52
sometimes on my poker, i forget to lock my arrow cluster in, and accidentally hit winkey or menu and it pisses me off so much
Title: Re: What is your least favorite key on your keyboard? Why?
Post by: Lastpilot on Fri, 26 July 2013, 08:06:09
sometimes on my poker, i forget to lock my arrow cluster in, and accidentally hit winkey or menu and it pisses me off so much
LOL yes this feeling sucks.

And yeah oTurtlez, I totally forgot about insert. It definitely does more harm then good...lol
Title: Re: What is your least favorite key on your keyboard? Why?
Post by: MrexD on Fri, 26 July 2013, 08:08:32
all the stupid placements on my 6GV2
Title: Re: What is your least favorite key on your keyboard? Why?
Post by: Tarzan on Fri, 26 July 2013, 10:22:35
Insert.

Waste of space for me.
Title: Re: What is your least favorite key on your keyboard? Why?
Post by: CommunistWitchDr on Fri, 26 July 2013, 10:52:04
On staggered boards zxc, and worse yet b. And most of the number row. Never cared about caps since I use colemak, and I actually use insert and scroll lock. I used to use the pause key in Doom II.

On my edox I like them all.
Title: Re: What is your least favorite key on your keyboard? Why?
Post by: DamnDan on Fri, 26 July 2013, 11:05:29
ESC. It gives me feeling I can simply run away with one click....
Title: Re: What is your least favorite key on your keyboard? Why?
Post by: keymaster on Fri, 26 July 2013, 11:17:13
the \ key

Sometimes I press it on accident when going for the backspace.
Title: Re: What is your least favorite key on your keyboard? Why?
Post by: TheSoulhunter on Fri, 26 July 2013, 11:34:00
CAPSLOCK! ON MY GH SIXTY I WILL USE IT AS FN KEY!
Title: Re: What is your least favorite key on your keyboard? Why?
Post by: HongKongFui on Fri, 26 July 2013, 11:48:10
The spacebar, the reason is in my signature... never thought it could be such a pain in the a** to get my two favourite boards complete...
Title: Re: What is your least favorite key on your keyboard? Why?
Post by: LouisHjelmslev on Fri, 26 July 2013, 12:51:05
The \ on ANSI, prefer my chunky Enter on my ISO
Title: Re: What is your least favorite key on your keyboard? Why?
Post by: jil_jil32 on Fri, 26 July 2013, 13:11:53
the "HOME" key ^o^
Title: Re: What is your least favorite key on your keyboard? Why?
Post by: Thimplum on Fri, 26 July 2013, 13:17:10
It's a tie between Scroll Lock and Pause

but why

I think I would kind of agree...only because I've never known what they actually do.

The pause key... um pauses. It is very common to see it in older games, like Age of Mythology, AKA one of the greatest games ever made.
Title: Re: What is your least favorite key on your keyboard? Why?
Post by: MOZ on Fri, 26 July 2013, 13:20:48
Caps Lock.
Win Key
Spacebar.

Once I finish building my ErgoDox, all these hated childs of keycaps shall be abolished!  >:D
Title: Re: What is your least favorite key on your keyboard? Why?
Post by: Thimplum on Fri, 26 July 2013, 13:27:35
Caps Lock.
Win Key
Spacebar.

Once I finish building my ErgoDox, all these hated childs of keycaps shall be abolished!  >:D

hehe
Title: Re: What is your least favorite key on your keyboard? Why?
Post by: Niomosy on Fri, 26 July 2013, 13:31:10
Caps Lock.  It's a worthless key unless you're Kanye West and blogging.  Following that, I've never understood why "\"  and "/" are split and not right next to each other.  We pair every other symbol, but not those two, that would make too much sense.

After I switched this to backspace after switching to Colemak, I don't mind the key anymore.

I agree with the OP in that ampersand is really awkward to get to.  For the most part, after switching to Colemak, most of the keys aren't too bad to get to.

Caps lock key comes in quite handy for the hockey sub-reddit.  Overtime = all caps.  Double OT = bold caps.  Triple OT = italic bold caps.  The trash talk thread is always all caps.

So, I find the caps lock necessary during hockey season :D
Title: Re: What is your least favorite key on your keyboard? Why?
Post by: Thimplum on Fri, 26 July 2013, 13:43:29
Why does everypony say that & is so hard to get to? I use left shift and right index finger.
Title: Re: What is your least favorite key on your keyboard? Why?
Post by: CommunistWitchDr on Fri, 26 July 2013, 15:01:30
Spacebar.

Once I finish building my ErgoDox, all these hated childs of keycaps shall be abolished!  >:D

What, how will you type without a spacebar?
Title: Re: What is your least favorite key on your keyboard? Why?
Post by: Thimplum on Fri, 26 July 2013, 15:15:53
Spacebar.

Once I finish building my ErgoDox, all these hated childs of keycaps shall be abolished!  >:D

What, how will you type without a spacebar?

I hate the spacebar because the keycaps are soooo.... nonstandard.
Title: Re: What is your least favorite key on your keyboard? Why?
Post by: TrueOP on Fri, 26 July 2013, 15:22:37
CAPS LOCK >_<

also

the Up arrow on my Choc Mini; when m playing this vid game and instead of pressing enter to say a line of chat i accidentally (constantly) press Up then Enter... which repeats the last message sent and sends it, instead of sending whatever it is you just typed out x_x
Title: Re: What is your least favorite key on your keyboard? Why?
Post by: rowdy on Fri, 26 July 2013, 19:32:42
The ANY key?  I don't have one.

I don't have any key on my keyboard.
Title: Re: What is your least favorite key on your keyboard? Why?
Post by: Thimplum on Fri, 26 July 2013, 20:06:29
The ANY key?  I don't have one.

I don't have any key on my keyboard.

Press any key to continue searching for the any key!

Title: Re: What is your least favorite key on your keyboard? Why?
Post by: SpAmRaY on Fri, 26 July 2013, 20:31:44
The ANY key?  I don't have one.

I don't have any key on my keyboard.

Mine should be here tomorrow!
Title: Re: What is your least favorite key on your keyboard? Why?
Post by: MOZ on Fri, 26 July 2013, 21:17:01
Spacebar.

Once I finish building my ErgoDox, all these hated childs of keycaps shall be abolished!  >:D

What, how will you type without a spacebar?

Th ErgoDox doesn't have any keys the form factor of a spacebar (read excruciatingly long). So a 2u key would be rempped to space.

Spacebar still has to die, no two ways about it.
Title: Re: What is your least favorite key on your keyboard? Why?
Post by: Smeagol_RP on Fri, 26 July 2013, 21:35:39
Scroll Lock.
Title: Re: What is your least favorite key on your keyboard? Why?
Post by: nubbinator on Fri, 26 July 2013, 22:16:36
Scroll Lock.

I'm still not sure what it does.
Title: Re: What is your least favorite key on your keyboard? Why?
Post by: Hak Foo on Sat, 27 July 2013, 00:18:13
F12.  All it ever does for me is turn off the navigation in Notepad++, a feature I never had any need for.
Title: Re: What is your least favorite key on your keyboard? Why?
Post by: calavera on Sat, 27 July 2013, 00:31:17
probably scroll lock.
Title: Re: What is your least favorite key on your keyboard? Why?
Post by: gropingmantis on Sat, 27 July 2013, 05:44:15
What are people's problem with the Super (win) key? I use it all the time for my WMFS shortcuts

Super + F = firefox
Super + T = terminal
Super + M = thunderbird
Super + Q = close program
Super + Arrows = change focus

such a useful key.
Title: Re: What is your least favorite key on your keyboard? Why?
Post by: tipo33 on Sat, 27 July 2013, 05:48:05
The windows key, on the keyboards that have them.  Most of mine don't.
Title: Re: What is your least favorite key on your keyboard? Why?
Post by: Ultratude on Sat, 27 July 2013, 06:04:59
Esc, I always use it.
Title: Re: What is your least favorite key on your keyboard? Why?
Post by: Halvar on Sat, 27 July 2013, 06:09:47
Caps Lock, Insert and Windows, in that order.

They do annoying things when you press them accidentally and are of little use anyway.
Title: Re: What is your least favorite key on your keyboard? Why?
Post by: boost on Sat, 27 July 2013, 06:10:20
|\ after its changes to backspace.
Title: Re: What is your least favorite key on your keyboard? Why?
Post by: rowdy on Sat, 27 July 2013, 06:35:04
Ok, here's one for real.

Enter on ISO layouts.

It is too big, and obstructs where backslash should be, causing backspace to be too small.
Title: Re: What is your least favorite key on your keyboard? Why?
Post by: brighenne on Sat, 27 July 2013, 12:00:17
I've got to go with insert also, I used to work with a guy that removed his insert keycap at work.

Following that, I've never understood why "\"  and "/" are split and not right next to each other.  We pair every other symbol, but not those two, that would make too much sense.

Gonna pull this one back up.  I see the logic here because the rest of the paired symbols are typically used as an open and close where / and \ aren't.

Title: Re: What is your least favorite key on your keyboard? Why?
Post by: nubbinator on Sat, 27 July 2013, 12:31:42
Following that, I've never understood why "\"  and "/" are split and not right next to each other.  We pair every other symbol, but not those two, that would make too much sense.

Gonna pull this one back up.  I see the logic here because the rest of the paired symbols are typically used as an open and close where / and \ aren't.

Sure, but, logically, it makes more sense to pair like symbols.  To me, it would make more sense to have an ?| key and an /\  key or / and \ on different keys near each other.  I mean, you have - and _ on the same key, ' and " on the same key, and ; and : on the same key, so why not / and \.
Title: Re: What is your least favorite key on your keyboard? Why?
Post by: jabar on Sat, 27 July 2013, 17:56:49
I remap my caps lock so it doesn't bother me anymore. My least favorite key are the Win keys, and the right alt not being an AltGr by default.
Title: Re: What is your least favorite key on your keyboard? Why?
Post by: nullptr on Sat, 27 July 2013, 18:22:24
Caps Lock and to a lesser extent the Windows key. I use Win+L to lock my computer at work though, but at home it's nothing but a pain.
Title: Re: What is your least favorite key on your keyboard? Why?
Post by: Grim Fandango on Sat, 27 July 2013, 18:37:20
I think pretty much the only key that sometimes annoys me is the caps lock. It is not that often that I accidentally hit it, but when I do , it always annoys me.
Title: Re: What is your least favorite key on your keyboard? Why?
Post by: Masterchief79 on Sun, 28 July 2013, 04:55:03
"?" Key in ISO-DE (is at the right of "9"). Don't know why, i never really hit this key in the first attempt.^^ It's such a bad position for it.
Title: Re: What is your least favorite key on your keyboard? Why?
Post by: mroldmanfunk on Sun, 28 July 2013, 06:34:53
Pause Break simply becauseI have no use for it.
Title: Re: What is your least favorite key on your keyboard? Why?
Post by: absyrd on Sun, 28 July 2013, 06:36:31
"Insert" has annoyed me many times over the years.
Title: Re: What is your least favorite key on your keyboard? Why?
Post by: infiniti on Sun, 28 July 2013, 08:52:31
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The semicolon.  I hardly use it; when I do, I wonder if I use it properly.
Title: Re: What is your least favorite key on your keyboard? Why?
Post by: SpAmRaY on Sun, 28 July 2013, 09:02:17
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The semicolon.  I hardly use it; when I do, I wonder if I use it properly.

But without it you can't make these ;)
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Post by: infiniti on Sun, 28 July 2013, 09:20:51
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The semicolon.  I hardly use it; when I do, I wonder if I use it properly.

But without it you can't make these ;)
Haha!  Good point but I usually click the emoticons just to be sure I get the right one :blank: oops I meant :p
Title: Re: What is your least favorite key on your keyboard? Why?
Post by: Hyde on Sun, 28 July 2013, 10:44:09
^ For the same reason I find " ~ " highly useful only because I make these (~___~) and this " yayyyyyyyyyy ~~~~~~~~~~~ "

LOL

Though I have to say my least favourite key is probably "insert".  Like most people said it causes more issues compare to most other "useless keys" also it's located in such a crucial location on keyboard.

Like they could've put a better key in that spot.  Otherwise I never use pause/break but at least I understand the importance for programmers on that key.
Title: Re: What is your least favorite key on your keyboard? Why?
Post by: TimIsABat on Sun, 28 July 2013, 18:03:16
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The semicolon.  I hardly use it; when I do, I wonder if I use it properly.

I only use this for the purpose of making my college papers look fancier.
Title: Re: What is your least favorite key on your keyboard? Why?
Post by: CommunistWitchDr on Sun, 28 July 2013, 18:43:05
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The semicolon.  I hardly use it; when I do, I wonder if I use it properly.
Ah, the semicolon; the most frequently misused punctuation mark.

“Here is a lesson in creative writing. First rule: Do not use semicolons. They are transvestite hermaphrodites representing absolutely nothing. All they do is show you've been to college.”
-Kurt Vonnegut
Title: Re: What is your least favorite key on your keyboard? Why?
Post by: kmiller8 on Sun, 28 July 2013, 18:44:24
The backspace, it reminds me of my failures in typing every time I have to hit it ;___;
Title: Re: What is your least favorite key on your keyboard? Why?
Post by: rowdy on Sun, 28 July 2013, 19:15:32
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The semicolon.  I hardly use it; when I do, I wonder if I use it properly.
Ah, the semicolon; the most frequently misused punctuation mark.

“Here is a lesson in creative writing. First rule: Do not use semicolons. They are transvestite hermaphrodites representing absolutely nothing. All they do is show you've been to college.”
-Kurt Vonnegut

Can a hermaphrodite even be a transvestite?

Anyway, I use semi-colon every day in my software development activities.
Title: Re: What is your least favorite key on your keyboard? Why?
Post by: Wall Street on Sun, 28 July 2013, 21:12:03
What are people's problem with the Super (win) key? I use it all the time for my WMFS shortcuts

...

such a useful key.

If you are typing quickly or playing a game, it will stop typing/playing and give you the start menu.  Similar to caps lock or insert, you usually need to stop what you are doing and redo some work.  Also, for a key that can dump you from a program, it is in a very poor spot near a lot of keys which are very frequently used.

I think that when Windows was originally made, they were smart to make Ctrl-Alt-Del and Alt-Tab into multi-key combos.  The idea of one key in the primary typing space leaving a program is nonsensical.
Title: Re: What is your least favorite key on your keyboard? Why?
Post by: Siva on Sun, 28 July 2013, 22:23:28
Easily the Caps Lock key. I'm an MMO player that is heavily into pvp. Pretty much every button I use has a shift and control modifier; and the Caps Lock always gets in the way. Also, I like my left pinky to rest when not in use and having a cavity there (yes, I remove the key cap since I never use it) helps me out a lot.
Title: Re: What is your least favorite key on your keyboard? Why?
Post by: davkol on Mon, 29 July 2013, 03:54:37
I could ***** about placement of some keys on ISO, TypeMatrix etc., but I won't. I really hate some layouts though. For example, too small ISO Enter—International Apple Aluminium keyboard, I'm looking at YOU!—or AltGr moved too far to the right, mostly because of no Menu key (which I actually use quite often, if I have it): this is the case of MS SideWinder X4/X6. BTW why there isn't AltGr on both sides of spacebar...?

In general, I hate Caps Lock. Its overuse is annoying on the internets.

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Post by: Thimplum on Tue, 30 July 2013, 14:40:50
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Post by: inteli722 on Tue, 30 July 2013, 14:45:49
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The semicolon.  I hardly use it; when I do, I wonder if I use it properly.

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Post by: infiniti on Wed, 31 July 2013, 00:04:26
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The semicolon.  I hardly use it; when I do, I wonder if I use it properly.

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Haha Good one!
Title: Re: What is your least favorite key on your keyboard? Why?
Post by: The_Ed on Wed, 31 July 2013, 00:21:30
I don't really have a least favorite, but there is something that irks me. I hate it when a keyboard has a | printed on the keycap instead of an ¦, and yet I think I use | more often... There is a huge controversy over broken bar vs vertical bar vs pipe... Keyboards output one or the other, but operating systems and programs often change one to the other for consistency...
Title: Re: What is your least favorite key on your keyboard? Why?
Post by: gropingmantis on Wed, 31 July 2013, 00:41:33
What are people's problem with the Super (win) key? I use it all the time for my WMFS shortcuts

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such a useful key.

If you are typing quickly or playing a game, it will stop typing/playing and give you the start menu.  Similar to caps lock or insert, you usually need to stop what you are doing and redo some work.  Also, for a key that can dump you from a program, it is in a very poor spot near a lot of keys which are very frequently used.

I think that when Windows was originally made, they were smart to make Ctrl-Alt-Del and Alt-Tab into multi-key combos.  The idea of one key in the primary typing space leaving a program is nonsensical.

*shrugs* Thats you people's fault for using Windows. The super key is just that in most Linux distros.

Nomsayin

/linux***



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Title: Re: What is your least favorite key on your keyboard? Why?
Post by: compgeke on Wed, 31 July 2013, 04:02:16
tHE CAPS LOCK KEY. eVERY TIME i PRESS IT i FORGET HOW TO TURN IT OFF! nOT ONLY THAT, IT CAUSES PEOPLE TO TYPE LIKE THIS!

But in reality, caps lock isn't really needed that much for most people, it's really an annoyance, one of those things that should have never been given to the general public.

The other key I hate is the ' key, as I frequently miss it and hit enter, leaving lines like "So what if it" "it's 2 in the morning? I" "I'm not even tired!"
Title: Re: What is your least favorite key on your keyboard? Why?
Post by: Ekruceal on Wed, 31 July 2013, 04:08:10
Caps lock because it's useless to me.
Title: Re: What is your least favorite key on your keyboard? Why?
Post by: Leslieann on Wed, 31 July 2013, 15:24:16
For me.. Insert, as mentioned, it causes all sorts of damage.
For other people I despise their caps lock.

I disable insert, change caps lock into a shift, and while games run, the Win key becomes a ctrl key. Problems solved.
Title: Re: What is your least favorite key on your keyboard? Why?
Post by: davkol on Wed, 31 July 2013, 16:33:37
I hate that there isn't dedicated Insert on most compact keyboards. STFU Windoze n00biez ~_^
Title: Re: What is your least favorite key on your keyboard? Why?
Post by: neoezekiel on Wed, 31 July 2013, 16:41:51
A tie between Caps Lock and Insert.

I have a few older boards without caps lock that I used a lot growing up so I end up hitting caps lock a lot when trying to Control (which is in place of caps lock on those boards).

My hatred of Insert actually comes from my laptop, which has a double sized Delete key so when I am at my desktop or any other full sized keyboards I end up striking insert instead.

I would probably hate the Windows key if more of my boards had one.
Title: Re: What is your least favorite key on your keyboard? Why?
Post by: neoezekiel on Wed, 31 July 2013, 16:43:00
I hate that there isn't dedicated Insert on most compact keyboards. STFU Windoze n00biez ~_^

What are you using insert for anyway?
Title: Re: What is your least favorite key on your keyboard? Why?
Post by: davkol on Wed, 31 July 2013, 16:48:37
I hate that there isn't dedicated Insert on most compact keyboards. STFU Windoze n00biez ~_^

What are you using insert for anyway?

copypasta

Ctrl-C/V cramps my left hand—or doesn't work with left-handed mousing; it means something different in shell as well.
Title: Re: What is your least favorite key on your keyboard? Why?
Post by: wiredPANDA on Thu, 01 August 2013, 11:12:27
Why did it never occur to me to disable/remap the annoyance of Insert?  Glad I read this thread to make me realize the obvious.
Title: Re: What is your least favorite key on your keyboard? Why?
Post by: viralbug on Thu, 01 August 2013, 11:19:54
Although I don't have any least favorite key per se, I would say the Backspace annoys me.
A little bit because it makes me realize I've been making mistakes. But the real reason it annoys me is because my keyboard at work sucks and I end up making mistakes more often than at home.