About ... my keyboard
I regard input hardwares like keyboard and mouse as important parts of a computer, as important as a video card that allows to heat water or fry an egg for your breakfast on it.
Yes you cannot do those things on your keyboard, but since most of us work on keyboard everday, it is important to have a handy, well designed one that allows you to enjoy work on it; oh, yes, and that ringing music like sound when you press the keys.
Also, please keep it clean ... I clean my keyboard once every three month. However, some people I encountered never clean their keyboard since the purchase, the keys are so dark, full of scums, you cannot even see what's on it.
I cleaned my keyboard today, and found the similar problem, but that's because the marks on the key wore out.
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I expect a four year old keyboard to have some keys wore out. That's not a huge deal, as long as I know where the home row is, I can touch type the rest.
It is interesting to see your most used keys, though.
Most of them are lefthand keys --- not surprised at all, it's the major weakness of qwerty layout, quite a lot of words can be typed use left hand only.
C,V,Z are my three most frequently used hot keys. I'm a really bad writer so I ctrl + z undo and copy and paste a lot.
A,E,D should be the most used keys then. I can undersand A and E, but why D is wearing that badly, no idea.
M,N twin is an interesting case. Those two are the ones I made most of my mistakes on, I'm always troubled to use my middle finger to get the M key.
Qwerty keyboard is the most "historic" part of computer. Its route can be traced back to mid 19th century in typewriters. I found it quite amazing that its about 150 yeras now since the first QWERTY layout typewriter, and yet we are still working on very similar way of input board, with little changes, except few new layout design, like the Dvorak.
In early 2000, I believed that the Direct Voice Input will take over keyboard as the main mean of input fairly soon. Well, vista does have a programme for this, but my accent, which is a mix of kiwi and Chinese English, can hardly depend on it. The programme can recognise my single word commands, like "sleep" or "open" quite well, but anything beyond that, it's almost totally unworkable.
It's still a long way to go before we can no longer have soring wrists after hours of work on computer
