Poll: Most useless key on your keyboard
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I have legitimately used every key on my keyboard, but as someone said, numlock is probably the most useless. Not because I hate its function, but because it should never be turned off. It's caused me more grief by existing and turning itself off than any other single button on the keyboard.
As for being completely functionally useless, I'll go with scroll lock. I've only ever used that outside of KVM switches (I'm sure KVM switches use it only because NO one uses it) back in the days of Loom, where I found it would change the way the scenery would scroll as you moved around the screen. That did NOTHING for gameplay, but it was interesting.
As for being completely functionally useless, I'll go with scroll lock. I've only ever used that outside of KVM switches (I'm sure KVM switches use it only because NO one uses it) back in the days of Loom, where I found it would change the way the scenery would scroll as you moved around the screen. That did NOTHING for gameplay, but it was interesting.
I can't decide between F6, scroll lock and pause/break.
Screw it, I'm going with Pause/Break, because I still don't know what the sucker does.
...other than pause and break things, obviously.
Screw it, I'm going with Pause/Break, because I still don't know what the sucker does.
...other than pause and break things, obviously.
I use a program called WhatPulse to count, amonth other things, all of my keypresses. so i can easily see how many times i pressed each button today/this week/ect.
according to that program the most useless key on my keyboard was the pagelup/pagedown/home/end keys. insert and delete (especially delete) actually got used quite a bit)
window key and rightclick key are awesome
and i do use capslock sometimes... in some games... as a close button to WASD
according to that program the most useless key on my keyboard was the pagelup/pagedown/home/end keys. insert and delete (especially delete) actually got used quite a bit)
window key and rightclick key are awesome
and i do use capslock sometimes... in some games... as a close button to WASD
I'd argue for "Insert". I never want insert off when I'm typing an extended document; why would I want my typing to erase the existing text when there are so many easier ways to handle text editing (not least, if that's what I want, to highlight the existing text and type over it?) On that line, "Insert" is arguably worse than useless.
Scroll Lock for me. So much so that I:
A) Didn't know where it was
B) Didn't even know it existed
As for the most irritating key, tilde is definitely a contender for whenever I accidentally press it instead of "1", Windows, if my keyboard didn't have a setting that disabled it, but the cake definitely goes to CAPS LOCK because I almost always use SHIFT and I always accidentally press it instead of SHIFT or TAB and end up typing in caps in the chat or whenever I try to enter my password of case sensitive websites.
A) Didn't know where it was
B) Didn't even know it existed
As for the most irritating key, tilde is definitely a contender for whenever I accidentally press it instead of "1", Windows, if my keyboard didn't have a setting that disabled it, but the cake definitely goes to CAPS LOCK because I almost always use SHIFT and I always accidentally press it instead of SHIFT or TAB and end up typing in caps in the chat or whenever I try to enter my password of case sensitive websites.
None of them.... Because I don't like using any keyboard with any missing keys in general...
Other than that, I don't press the wi-fi button because all it does it switch the wi-fi to "Airplane Mode"... and I don't think I would even bring my laptop on an airplane, anyway...
Other than that, I don't press the wi-fi button because all it does it switch the wi-fi to "Airplane Mode"... and I don't think I would even bring my laptop on an airplane, anyway...
I don't have a pause break key, so that one can't be it even though I don't know what it does. I've also never used the home, page up, page down and end buttons on my keyboard, and am not exactly sure what home and end do, so I'll have to vote for those.
Windows key is f*ckin' awesome, you wouldn't believe the amount of time that key saves if you know the right shortcuts.
I voted for numlock, because I can't think of a single reason to disable it. But then I realised I'd completely forgotten about scroll lock, because I've literally never used it. Never. Not even once. In a quarter of a century, zero times cumulative grand total. Holy balls, that's pretty damn useless.
I voted for numlock, because I can't think of a single reason to disable it. But then I realised I'd completely forgotten about scroll lock, because I've literally never used it. Never. Not even once. In a quarter of a century, zero times cumulative grand total. Holy balls, that's pretty damn useless.
Either Caps Lock (CRUISE CONTROL FOR COOL!... yeah, because that's a good thing - seriously, it creates stupid people and encourages horriffic typing habits), or Alt Gr (it lets me type either ¦ or ?, and I've never needed to type either; the áéíóú it also provides for, I've always overridden with Alt codes).
We sold a wireless keyboard to a customer the other day. He brought it back the next day - see if you can spot why.
We sold a wireless keyboard to a customer the other day. He brought it back the next day - see if you can spot why.
Caps lock is really useless in my opinion, happend way to many times that I actually pushed it instead of the shift key which annoyed me to no end.
Alt GR is atleast in a place on the keyboard where the chances of actually pushing it is low. However, my laptop has a key next to it that functions the same as the right mouse button, just as useless as Caps lock.Kinitawowi said:
Luckily didn't had this happen. Some of my installed games outright ignore this key for some reason.kurupt87 said:
I voted Caps Lock (that fucking thing should not fucking exist fucking fuck), since I'm using a laptop with most of the more arcane keys like insert, pause or scroll lock either missing entirely or paired to another key with Fn, but then @shootthebandit reminded me of Right Ctrl, which I don't think I have ever pressed, intentionally or not. I've pressed Caps Lock by accident many times, so Right Ctrl wins.
See, I've always liked Right Ctrl; before WASD became the default configuration, my PC gaming tended to gravitate towards the arrow keys, and the Right Shift / Right Ctrl / Right Alt (this was before Alt Gr became a thing) / Space group was a suitable array for most games. Right Ctrl in particular was basically my Jump button in everything released by Apogee. That's still the key block I use for most games in MAME these days too, for that matter.DirgeNovak said:
I voted "pause break" because I've never even heard of that key.
My current keyboard, i.e. the one on my laptop lacks the pause break, scroll lock and num lock keys, and doesn't have a numpad. I never used the numpad, either; I always had the numbers on-hand above my alphabet keys.
My current keyboard, i.e. the one on my laptop lacks the pause break, scroll lock and num lock keys, and doesn't have a numpad. I never used the numpad, either; I always had the numbers on-hand above my alphabet keys.
