« previous next »
Pages:  [1]     Go Down

Author Topic: If you can keep track of how many times each key was pressed, would you care?  (Read 2320 times)

0 Members and 1 Guest are viewing this topic.

Offline Kamen Rider Blade

  • Thread Starter
  • Posts: 119
If you can keep track of how many times each key was pressed, would you care?
« 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?
Logged

Offline Novus

  • Formerly the1onewolf
  • * Exquisite Elder
  • Posts: 1515
  • Mondai nothing~
Re: If you can keep track of how many times each key was pressed, would you care?
« Reply #1 on: Sat, 08 February 2014, 16:15:12 »
Yes. I'm OCD. So don't implement it.
Logged

Offline CPTBadAss

  • Woke up like this
  • Posts: 14383
    • Tactile Zine
Re: If you can keep track of how many times each key was pressed, would you care?
« Reply #2 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.
Logged

Offline mashby

  • ** Moderator Emeritus
  • Posts: 2828
  • Location: Nashville, TN
  • What Up Shoney? (ツ)_/¯
    • Mashby
Re: If you can keep track of how many times each key was pressed, would you care?
« Reply #3 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 would be a bad idea?  :cool:
Logged

Offline Snarfangel

  • Posts: 288
Re: If you can keep track of how many times each key was pressed, would you care?
« Reply #4 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.   :))
Logged

Offline tricheboars

  • * Esteemed Elder
  • Posts: 964
  • Location: Denver
  • Keyboards are Important!
Re: If you can keep track of how many times each key was pressed, would you care?
« Reply #5 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.
« Last Edit: Sat, 08 February 2014, 17:01:12 by tricheboars »
Logged
|  Fundamentalist ErgoDox Zealot  |  HHKB Hybrid

Offline strict

  • TKL Zealot
  • Posts: 1921
  • Location: PA
Re: If you can keep track of how many times each key was pressed, would you care?
« Reply #6 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.
Logged

Realforce EK45 (Silenced)  |  Realforce 87UW (45g)  |  Realforce 87UWS (Variable)
Filco MJ2 TKL (Cherry Clears)  |  Phantom 87 (78g Gateron Clears)  |  Phantom 86 (67g Zealios)

Offline Pacifist

  • Report me *again* if there are gifs in my sig
  • * Elevated Elder
  • Posts: 3599
  • Location: Cali
  • on hiatus
Re: If you can keep track of how many times each key was pressed, would you care?
« Reply #7 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?
Logged

Offline C5Allroad

  • Formerly HUNTERANGEL121
  • Posts: 1237
  • Location: Miami, FL
  • Watch out, I post when half asleep.
Re: If you can keep track of how many times each key was pressed, would you care?
« Reply #8 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.
Logged

Offline Novus

  • Formerly the1onewolf
  • * Exquisite Elder
  • Posts: 1515
  • Mondai nothing~
Re: If you can keep track of how many times each key was pressed, would you care?
« Reply #9 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 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.
Logged

Offline ianxblog

  • Posts: 141
  • no
Re: If you can keep track of how many times each key was pressed, would you care?
« Reply #10 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.
Logged

Offline peterstock

  • Posts: 25
Re: If you can keep track of how many times each key was pressed, would you care?
« Reply #11 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
Logged

Offline dorkvader

  • Posts: 6289
  • Location: Boston area
  • all about the "hack" in "geekhack"
Re: If you can keep track of how many times each key was pressed, would you care?
« Reply #12 on: Mon, 10 February 2014, 22:47:55 »
My only issue with implementing a keylogger on my computer is

DISREGARD THAT, BUY THIS SPAM!
Logged

Offline 1pq

  • Posts: 669
  • Location: East Coast USA
  • Hipster Doofus
Re: If you can keep track of how many times each key was pressed, would you care?
« Reply #13 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.
Logged
main kbs:  87UB (55g)  Custom Filco TKL (62g clears)

WTS JD40, Custom Ergoclear Filco

WTB ROHS Red BBv2 (Topre), OG EK Tri-Color Skull (TOPRE)

Offline thesentinel

  • Posts: 92
Re: If you can keep track of how many times each key was pressed, would you care?
« Reply #14 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.
« Last Edit: Mon, 10 February 2014, 23:48:43 by thesentinel »
Logged
Keyboards are the only thing keeping me from consuming human flesh.

Offline Wildcard

  • * Esteemed Elder
  • Posts: 1046
  • Location: Fields of Columbia
  • When caffeine isn't enough
Re: If you can keep track of how many times each key was pressed, would you care?
« Reply #15 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 ;)
Logged

Offline Moosecraft

  • HHKB Pro
  • Posts: 734
  • Location: Sweden
Re: If you can keep track of how many times each key was pressed, would you care?
« Reply #16 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:
Logged
I am bigfatmc over at other places!

Offline kod

  • Posts: 60
Re: If you can keep track of how many times each key was pressed, would you care?
« Reply #17 on: Tue, 11 February 2014, 11:07:44 »
Whatpulse is awesome, you can disable the network communication if you're concerned about nefarious uses.
Logged
Pages:  [1]     Go Up
« previous next »