Insert, without a doubt. I once had a keyboard with no Insert key, just a double-sized Delete key, and I loved that layout. The only others that come close are scroll & number lock.
Poll: Most useless key on your keyboard
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Insert. Not only have I never ever used it, it's quite literally useless now. I'm on a laptop and I broke the mechanism for the Esc key trying to clean it, so I stole it from Insert.
I can't remember the last time I've ever needed to do that. So yeah, to most people it's useless, even back in the days when it was actually used to pause a game, there were other buttons which would open the menu, which would not only pause the game, but allow you to do stuff too.TopazFusion said:
My keyboard has diagonal arrow keys (up-right and up-left), they transcend their mere uselessness by virtue of also being in the way. However as my arrow keys are almost near useless to me themselves, I guess I'd have to say everything usually above the arrow keys except Delete and Print Screen.
The menu key.
No not the windows key, the Menu Key
It's a key that brings up a context sensative menu... you know a right click.
It positioned so the only way to comfortably press it is with my mouse hand, where I can just well... right click!
Besides I use a laptop, so there's another bigger button which does the same thing.
No not the windows key, the Menu Key
It's a key that brings up a context sensative menu... you know a right click.
It positioned so the only way to comfortably press it is with my mouse hand, where I can just well... right click!
Besides I use a laptop, so there's another bigger button which does the same thing.
Everything on the right bottom; alt, ctrl, the windows key there, and some weird list-key-thing..
My right hand is on the mouse, I can't press those keys as well!
My right hand is on the mouse, I can't press those keys as well!
my keyboard has combined pause/break with scroll lock so that is a single key with double the uselessness which may make it half useful?
close runner up is right hand control key. combine coding with a healthy dose of one handed keyboard use and you use pretty much every button but that right hand control key? might turn me into a purple unicorn who farts tacos, i'll never know cause i'll never use the fucking thing.
close runner up is right hand control key. combine coding with a healthy dose of one handed keyboard use and you use pretty much every button but that right hand control key? might turn me into a purple unicorn who farts tacos, i'll never know cause i'll never use the fucking thing.
TopazFusion said:
Add another to "insert is the most annoying button on the keyboard" for me, for the aforementioned reasons. However, the most useless button has to be scroll lock. It may have been useful when DOS was the only thing you could use for a computer, but today I legitimately don't know any other use for it other than making the number lock, caps lock, and scroll lock lights illuminate in a sequence.
Also, I'm disappointed at all the "windows key is useless" posts. Working in the IT field, I find myself using the windows key a tonne. Not having it would make life more annoying because a Windows key + pause break is way easier. Windows+E brings up my computer. Windows+D brings you to the desktop. Windows+home minimizes all background images. Just pressing the windows key and typing cmd for command prompt is more effective than mousing to the start menu and typing cmd.
Pause/Break. I don't even know what that is. My runner-up would be Scroll Lock. Most of the other keys I use at least a little bit either for work or leisure.
Off topic: What's with the "we have noticed suspicious activity related to your internet address" captcha? I don't even want to click on that thing.
Off topic: What's with the "we have noticed suspicious activity related to your internet address" captcha? I don't even want to click on that thing.
