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cross-posted from: https://programming.dev/post/18098231

Have you ever wondered if your keyboard shortcuts are set up optimally? Well, I did, so I decided to visualize it with a heat-map.

It proved to me that I rely on my left pinky too much, so I'll try to rework my shortcuts.

You can check out the project here, currently it only works on Linux.

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Meta key to the right of alt? wut?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago

How do you open Facebook?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

Yeah, it is on my keyboard

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Why is caps lock your most used key?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I'm assuming blue means a key is more used, so it's showing Caps never gets used. enter doesn't make sense though, so maybe it's only showing key combinations?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago (2 children)

No, the red is more used, I just have Caps remapped to control

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

That seems pretty misleading...

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Why? The purpose of this project was for me to see which keys I press more often so I know which fingers get stressed, and it exactly what the project does

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago (1 children)

From the title, it sounds like something that any keyboard shortcut enthusiast would be able to extrapolate to their own shortcuts. But if yours are custom, then it's more like a fun fact about yourself.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

Fair enough. I've only created a visualization tool, I haven't gathered statistics.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

Oh, that explains why ctrl is blue.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (3 children)

You press Caps Lock more than return. Do you do a lot of shouting in the comments section?

I am genuinely interested in what you use it for. i assume it a programming things I'm not aware of.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 months ago

I have it remapped to control

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago

My caps is backspace, try it and you'll never look back (though Ctrl is good too). It's actually part of the colemak layout that I use.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago

My caps lock is remapped to ctrl+c. I'm pretty sure I use it more than the enter key.