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TIL I use only 82% of my MacBook's standard US keyboard

5 pointsby kuleshabout 1 year ago
How much of your standard MacBook keyboard&#x27;s area are you actually utilising? Do you know?<p>Keys that I honestly never use on my Mac:<p>- Globe fn key (it&#x27;s just too inconvenient to press)<p>- caps lock (I PREFER NOT TO SCREAM WHEN I TYPE)<p>- F3 - show all windows (I use gestures)<p>- F4 - spotlight (I use command + space)<p>- F5 - dictation<p>- F6 - I have no idea what the moon icon means and what it does.<p>- F7 - rewind (Idk, I just never press it)<p>- right option<p>- right command<p>- right shift<p>Each key has a designated area; some keys are larger than others.<p>Based on this, I&#x27;ve calculated that I don&#x27;t use 17.68% of my standard US MacBook keyboard.

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zeristorabout 1 year ago
Good question.<p>F6 half moon key is to enable disable focus, handy if you have ADHD no doubt.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;discussions.apple.com&#x2F;thread&#x2F;255111106?sortBy=best" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;discussions.apple.com&#x2F;thread&#x2F;255111106?sortBy=best</a>
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eternityforestabout 1 year ago
I don&#x27;t have a Mac, but there&#x27;s a lot of keys I never use.<p>I pretty much never use function keys for anything but setting volume and brightness, I fairly rarely use alt, escape isn&#x27;t that common.<p>I use the arrow keys just enough that I&#x27;d be annoyed without them but definitely not all the time.<p>I could probably be fine with just ctrl, shift, enter, and the printing chars, with several weeks of work to learn some alternative to pgup&#x2F;down&#x2F;end&#x2F;home, but I really like having those as single keys.
JohnFenabout 1 year ago
I don&#x27;t use a MacBook, so perhaps this isn&#x27;t of interest to you. I&#x27;ve never measured my keyboard use, but based on the wear on the keycaps, here are the keys I use the most: space bar; all letters except Q, P, Z, and X; backspace; and cursor keys.
akerl_about 1 year ago
I use caps lock a ton because I’ve used the stock Mac setting to rebind it to escape.
dredmorbiusabout 1 year ago
Capslock -&gt; Control (via System Preferences -&gt; Keyboard -&gt; Modifier Keys).
MichaelMugabout 1 year ago
Out of curiosity how did you measure this?
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