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Title: If you can keep track of how many times each key was pressed, would you care?
Post by: Kamen Rider Blade on Sat, 08 February 2014, 16:13:55: Since most Cherry MX & Topre keys are rated for 50 million clicks.

If there was a simple chip with a tiny watch battery that keeps track of the number of times every individual key was pressed (regardless of whether the keyboard was on or off) so that you can see a detailed chart in your keyboard driver, would you even care?

I'm sure for normal folks, they wouldn't, but for us hardcore keyboard lovers, would this be a feature that is useful?
Title: Re: If you can keep track of how many times each key was pressed, would you care?
Post by: Novus on Sat, 08 February 2014, 16:15:12: Yes. I'm OCD. So don't implement it.
Title: Re: If you can keep track of how many times each key was pressed, would you care?
Post by: CPTBadAss on Sat, 08 February 2014, 16:16:32: Would it be cool to see the statistics from this? Yes.

Would I care enough to keep track of all my keypresses? Probably not.
Title: Re: If you can keep track of how many times each key was pressed, would you care?
Post by: mashby on Sat, 08 February 2014, 16:27:49: Quote from: the1onewolf on Sat, 08 February 2014, 16:15:12
Yes. I'm OCD. So don't implement it.

So telling you about WhatPulse (http://whatpulse.org) would be a bad idea? :cool:
Title: Re: If you can keep track of how many times each key was pressed, would you care?
Post by: Snarfangel on Sat, 08 February 2014, 16:39:36: Actually, I wish my keyboard would keep track of key presses (including shift/enter/ctrl/etc), as well as bigram/trigram/n-gram and word frequency. It would be even more interesting if a lot of other people were doing the same thing. It would help me (or someone with a lot more programming skill) construct the ultimate non-QWERTY layout.

Yes, I realize the amount of time spent analyzing the data would completely overwhelm the tiny benefit I would derive from the perfect layout, but a hobby doesn't have to be completely logical. :))
Title: Re: If you can keep track of how many times each key was pressed, would you care?
Post by: tricheboars on Sat, 08 February 2014, 16:55:54: asdl';fkjaotig

installed. immediately. this app looks pretty damn cool. seems like the longer you have it on the more it tells you. i am going to have it record my keyboard activity for a month or two on a 60% to tell me which keys need to go where on my incoming ergodox.

also the cherry software on my POS cherry board (G80-8113LUVEU-2) tells me **** like this. total keystrokes only if i remember correctly. that one had over one million when i bought it which i think is pretty cool.
Title: Re: If you can keep track of how many times each key was pressed, would you care?
Post by: strict on Sat, 08 February 2014, 20:40:15: Something like this would be good for people trying to break in clear switches before modding them. You could rotate stems around your board over the course of a couple weeks or months to make sure all your stems see roughly uniform usage before lubing them.
Title: Re: If you can keep track of how many times each key was pressed, would you care?
Post by: Pacifist on Sat, 08 February 2014, 20:41:48: Quote from: strict on Sat, 08 February 2014, 20:40:15
Something like this would be good for people trying to break in clear switches before modding them. You could rotate stems around your board over the course of a couple weeks or months to make sure all your stems see roughly uniform usage before lubing them.

Break in clears? :eek: Since when? Got a link to a review of unbroken vs broken in clears?
Title: Re: If you can keep track of how many times each key was pressed, would you care?
Post by: C5Allroad on Sat, 08 February 2014, 22:40:45: I've thought about how many times I hit a key.
I would love that...
Buuuuttttt I'm OCD about it... Each key would have to be pressed an equal amount of times.
Title: Re: If you can keep track of how many times each key was pressed, would you care?
Post by: Novus on Sat, 08 February 2014, 22:58:58: Quote from: mashby on Sat, 08 February 2014, 16:27:49
Quote from: the1onewolf on Sat, 08 February 2014, 16:15:12
Yes. I'm OCD. So don't implement it.

So telling you about WhatPulse (http://whatpulse.org) would be a bad idea? :cool:

Absolutely!
You terrible terrible person.

Quote from: HUNTERANGEL121 on Sat, 08 February 2014, 22:40:45
I've thought about how many times I hit a key.
I would love that...
Buuuuttttt I'm OCD about it... Each key would have to be pressed an equal amount of times.

Equal opportunity key breaker.
Title: Re: If you can keep track of how many times each key was pressed, would you care?
Post by: ianxblog on Sun, 09 February 2014, 02:43:16: It would be cool to have a hardware made counter to see how much really the keyboard can take

50 million keystrokes, whatever.

I don't have idea on how much that is on practical usage, but I bet a good mech keyboard with minimal repairs can take it for long.
Title: Re: If you can keep track of how many times each key was pressed, would you care?
Post by: peterstock on Mon, 10 February 2014, 15:38:20: Quote from: HUNTERANGEL121 on Sat, 08 February 2014, 22:40:45
Buuuuttttt I'm OCD about it... Each key would have to be pressed an equal amount of times.

That's funny - my first thought too XD
Title: Re: If you can keep track of how many times each key was pressed, would you care?
Post by: dorkvader on Mon, 10 February 2014, 22:47:55: My only issue with implementing a keylogger on my computer is

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Title: Re: If you can keep track of how many times each key was pressed, would you care?
Post by: 1pq on Mon, 10 February 2014, 22:52:33: Quote from: strict on Sat, 08 February 2014, 20:40:15
Something like this would be good for people trying to break in clear switches before modding them. You could rotate stems around your board over the course of a couple weeks or months to make sure all your stems see roughly uniform usage before lubing them.

Or you could do it by feel, which is what really matters. That's what I'm doing, anyway. Colemak homerow certainly does help, though, by keeping all the most commonly pressed keys in one row.
Title: Re: If you can keep track of how many times each key was pressed, would you care?
Post by: thesentinel on Mon, 10 February 2014, 23:47:04: I'd love to see the statistics. Of other people, not my self. If I got like 43,000,000 key presses then I'd freak out and try to get another 7 million key presses on stupid things just so I can have a multiple of 10. I already have weird issues while gaming about making sure I press asd whenever I press w, wanting to press wsd when I press a and etc.
Title: Re: If you can keep track of how many times each key was pressed, would you care?
Post by: Wildcard on Mon, 10 February 2014, 23:52:31: Quote from: tricheboars on Sat, 08 February 2014, 16:55:54
also the cherry software on my POS cherry board (G80-8113LUVEU-2) tells me **** like this. total keystrokes only if i remember correctly. that one had over one million when i bought it which i think is pretty cool.

^ this.

Also after typing on my FC660C for a few months it's become very obvious which keys I use the most ;)
Title: Re: If you can keep track of how many times each key was pressed, would you care?
Post by: Moosecraft on Tue, 11 February 2014, 02:11:22: Quote from: Pacifist on Sat, 08 February 2014, 20:41:48
Quote from: strict on Sat, 08 February 2014, 20:40:15
Something like this would be good for people trying to break in clear switches before modding them. You could rotate stems around your board over the course of a couple weeks or months to make sure all your stems see roughly uniform usage before lubing them.

Break in clears? :eek: Since when? Got a link to a review of unbroken vs broken in clears?
Never heard of breaking in mx switches? :eek:
Title: Re: If you can keep track of how many times each key was pressed, would you care?
Post by: kod on Tue, 11 February 2014, 11:07:44: Whatpulse is awesome, you can disable the network communication if you're concerned about nefarious uses.