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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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[–] mihnt@lemmy.ca 8 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Meta key to the right of alt? wut?

[–] Atropos@lemmy.world 3 points 1 month ago

How do you open Facebook?

[–] andnekon@programming.dev 1 points 1 month ago

Yeah, it is on my keyboard

[–] Jesusaurus@lemmy.world 4 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Why is caps lock your most used key?

[–] 56_@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 month 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?

[–] andnekon@programming.dev 3 points 1 month ago (2 children)

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

[–] 56_@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 month ago

Oh, that explains why ctrl is blue.

[–] otp@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

That seems pretty misleading...

[–] andnekon@programming.dev 3 points 1 month 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

[–] otp@sh.itjust.works 4 points 1 month 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.

[–] andnekon@programming.dev 2 points 1 month ago

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

[–] jmbmkn@beehaw.org 2 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month 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.

[–] andnekon@programming.dev 7 points 1 month ago

I have it remapped to control

[–] cRazi_man@lemm.ee 3 points 1 month ago

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

[–] verdigris@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 month 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.