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Check out WhatPulse if you're really interested. It doesn't keep track of scrolling but it does keep track of how far you've moved your mouse (as well as clicks and key presses). For example, I'm at 5.49 miles in the past four or so weeks.

I lied, I recorded for fourteen months. Altogether, there are 5,675,906 key presses, 2,592,950 clicks, and my mouse traveled 97.41 miles.

My top keys are:
A with 59k presses
W with 53.8k presses
D with 53.2k presses
Spacebar with 50k presses
S is in 9th place with a distant 20k presses.

Least used keys are:
Letter: Z with 236 presses F10 with 2 presses
Right Windows key with 1 press
End key with 1 press
Print Screen with 1 press

Arrow keys total 87K presses. 8456 is an alternate num pad use for arrow keys I experiment with.

So what conclusions can be drawn from this? WASD are obviously the keys in most use when I don't play Stepmania (which accounts for arrow keys/8456), but all numbers are skewed somewhat due to normal typing. Which is to say that in game I may not necessarily favor strafing left, I just type enough to use vowels more and some letters, like w, less. I have only used Z once in gaming, and that was due to the high amount of keys in use in Deus Ex. I should have a higher amount of printscreen presses but due to Gadwin Printscreen it has been remapped. Also, I never use F10 to quit Source games.

The program I used was (obviously) Whatpulse. If you wish to track keys, it's a free install. It does not upload the data for key information, it only uploads key/click/mouse drag count. You can download here (not a referral link) and join the Reddit Gaming team here.

Nice, I forgot about this. I used it, but I stopped pulsing in summer 2009.

http://whatpulse.org/stats/users/125790/

kill_t has been a participant since 2004-12-08 (90 months ago), and in that time has typed 36,443,789 keys, clicked 8,387,809 times and moved his or her mouse for 622.81 miles.

You're link gave me the idea of searching for keyboard statistic program, and it showed up then!

It's called WhatPulse. That's probably why I thought it started with "word" since I knew it started with a W.

Thanks!

I transitioned from a dual 2560x1440 setup to this single 1080p setup and I'm actually probably more productive now that I have to rely on the keyboard so much for keybindings and shortcuts. I started tracking my button presses using WhatPulse and I'm nearing 1M on this board already on this laptop (2 months old or so).

I do miss having a second screen, but this laptop does have dual display ports and an HDMI out so it's doable.

Back in 2001, I developed a small project to count keystrokes pressed so my friends and I could sort of compete to see who was doing the most typing. One of my friends submitted it to slashdot and they ended up actually publishing the story. It went wild and soon there were over 30,000 registered accounts. It became too much of a headache to manage, and since it was just a hobby project to begin with, I closed it down and left the source behind. Someone else picked it up and it is now the present-day WhatPulse.

Project Orca, then later Project Dolphin used to do that, but they're abandoned. The closest I could find is WhatPulse: http://whatpulse.org/referral/218606/

edit: also note, that a newer version for Mac is available in the forums: http://forums.whatpulse.org/showthread.php?t=5464

That's actually a great idea! I never thought I'd want to be on a team before this! I hope my keystrokes help!

Edit: 1102 place! http://i.imgur.com/qAto2Yu.png http://whatpulse.org/stats/teams/input/?page=32

Disclaimer: I don't actually run this team

If you don't know what WhatPulse is, it's a program that tracks keypresses, mouse clicks, and how far you move your mouse. Don't worry, it's not a keylogger, it has had 380,000 users in the last 8 years, I'm sure somepony would have noticed if it was!

Basically, you create an account here, download the program (There's clients for Windows, OS X, and Linux), and then log in to your account through the program. Then just leave it running on your computer, and double-click it every so often to send your "pulse" to the server. This will update your profile with how many keys you typed and so on.

To join the team just go here, and follow the very self-explanatory instructions. The team name is "Great Solar Empire" (Sorry Luna fans, I didn't choose the name!).

[](/b16) Oh, and if the team hits 50 members by Tuesday night my time, I'll stay on the team permanently, with my currently 152,000,000 keys. Gogogo!

(And for those of you who are actually interested, we have a (admittedly inactive) sub-reddit over at [/r/whatpulse](/r/whatpulse), too!

Heatmap is created by the WhatPulse application. It tracks mouse clicks and keyboard clicks and gives statistics of all programs you use on your computer. Can be downloaded here: http://whatpulse.org/downloads/

Whatpulse. I use it on all of my computers to track of how much use I put on different computers.

On Linux the Shift, Enter, Ctrl, Alt and ` don't show up on the heatmap, but works fine for Windows.

http://whatpulse.org/

Usually some Bash-scripting to figure out the correct source and accompanying md5sum directives. For example:

md5sums=('') case $CARCH in i686) _arch=32bit md5sums[0]='aea3332d0dfc3f927d4eda72870e9b96' ;; x86_64) _arch=64bit md5sums[0]='6ed66006ca793db50baa5bf53ba16da1' ;; esac source=("http://whatpulse.org/files/whatpulse-linux-$_arch-$pkgver.tar.gz")

The new architecture-specific directives are much nicer, and the AUR website supports them.

WhatPulse should cover your needs. It tracks keys, clicks, mouse motion, uptime, download, and upload, and if you open the Settings menu, then go to the Input tab, the free version will show you a heatmap of keyboard usage, and you can export to CSV. Premium version has extra features, but I'm not sure what they are, as I've never used it :)

Here's mine.

Not surprised really, what with International Cricket Captain (my most played game) involving only the mouse and the spacebar.

Just to add some perspective. I'm a professional programmer (note the second r) and I play starcraft at around 120 apm. I do this about 12 hours per day and I've pressed around 10 million keys in 2 years. So the most used keys like 'e' and 'backspace' are pressed way less than one million times. In this case the keyboard would last about 20 years for me which is likely about 30 to 50 years for average users..

EDIT: evidence

Hey, a fellow WhatPulse user!

I just got started about 2 weeks ago, but here's my profile.

Also, fucking pulse already or something, you have a million keystrokes.

btw on his whatpulse he also used this:

File Pumper Oshino Shinobu 1h55m53s 860 1,163

this is what old AQN used to inject itself to a file like firefox.exe and he has 2 hour of usage as well as 1100 clicks in it

if you check other users of this on whatpulse its literally all other osu cheaters who has AQN present too in various forms:

http://whatpulse.org/app/file-pumper#users

Oh shit, is that where LUElinks came from in the Whatpulse community?

Whatpulse keeps track of what keys you press and how much you move your mouse (and nowadays also keeps track of how much you down and upload). It's not a keylogger though (I've used it since 2005 and AFAIK, my account have never been used)

LUElinks and Dutch Power Cows (a subcommunity of Dutch tech site http://Tweakers.net) used to fight for being number one on http://whatpulse.org

I always wondered where they came from!

PS: /r/whatpulse

If you have a Razer mouse and keyboard, Synapse will do it automatically, I use this with my Deathadder Elite and Blackwidow Ultimate but if you don't have any Razer products then I would look at WhatPulse

I find this to be my ideal layout.

I had a Full Size, then went to a "TKL" - ten-keyless. Then finally to a 65%.

I used a program called "WhatPulse" for a month or two to see how often I used which keys. When I realized how little I use the F-row, I decided to make the swap.

Here are two screenshots of my key usage:

• My work computer
• My home computer

I use my "caps lock" key as my Function key so it makes hitting the F-keys super easy. Just like hitting "Shift+5" for a % hitting "Caps(Fn)+5" is my F5 key.

I'd certainly recommend using WhatPulse for a while to see how often you hit which keys, if you are really hitting the F-Keys a lot, go for the TKL board. They aren't too much bigger.

According to WhatPulse, I press the W key around 7% of the time (for the past 51 hours of running time).

On average (on TeamSpeak, Skype and Chrome), I use it 2.33% of the time. Blame Minecraft for the overall average of 7%.

I use the A key exactly 9.0% of the time, and the space bar exactly 12.0% of the time.

They aren't wearing off in the slightest. I guess I press W with too much passion :)

(By the way, I use AZERTY but that doesn't really make a difference, the words I type are the same no matter the keyboard layout.)

whatpulse.

EDIT: It is a program that will tell you how many times you've clicked or hit a key o nhte keyboard. it will also tell you how long each program was open. minecraft is javaw.exe
link: http://whatpulse.org/

http://whatpulse.org/strazdas I have made 51k keystrokes in less than 2 months and that one does not even count my work where i do most of my typing.

as you can see here http://whatpulse.org/stats/input/ there is currently 3 people using that program that has beaten 200 million keystrokes.

Also note that 200 million is required only if a keystroke is recorded within 100 bytes. if the requirement of log per keystroke is higher, plus adding mouseclicks (with location coordinates it would be quite long too) would definitely lower the need for number of keys.

I would definitely recommend WhatPulse for all of your PC monitoring needs!! Keystrokes/Mouseclicks/Network Usage/uptime, it really is quite robust and extremely easy to use. Make sure you check out the website and have a good look around and see exactly what we're all about and what we do :)

In fact we just released the latest beta ( 2.4b1 ) earlier today!!! So, excited about that of course, check out more info on the release @

http://whatpulse.org/forums/showthread.php?tid=4622

Happy Pulsing!! And remember life is toooo short NOT to make it count! :D

There's an official reddit whatpulse team already. http://whatpulse.org/stats/teams/204/

I agree /r/whatpulse is pretty dead.

EDIT: oops it's not the official team

>Reddit does have a subteam, but none of the mods are on that team, so it is not officially licensed as this sub-reddit's team.

http://whatpulse.org/ this allows you track keys clicks and mouse movement, just last night in playing diablo 3. i hit 25,947keys, clicked my mouse 58,263 times, and my hand moved over 1.33 miles on my mouse pad =D also jerking off doesn't help either

if you don't mind doing some testing for me, it would really help FoxyMayhem and I out, as we work together to develop the next big development in custom hotkey layout efficiency.

We need to know how frequently each command is used on average in a game of sc2. Here's the website for a tracking key strokes: http://whatpulse.org/ Please run it while playing and give me the exported image file. This will really help us to make the most efficient layout possible. :D

Thanks a ton!

I think I feel the need to be redundant on this one and post something I did just a bit ago while refuting a little misinformation, which is cool, I mean we've had to deal with those such questions/claims for just over -nine- years now and that's fine ;D

OK, lemme paste away, again forgive the double post:

We advertise "that it logs every keystroke you make." ?? It actually does nothing of the sort, i'd encourage you/ALL OF YOU :o To check the WHAT PULSE ? page in our own words, which is @ http://whatpulse.org/whatis/ And with every version that's been publically released, "knowing which keys you use most..." (Key Frequencies) is known to only ONE person, and that is you if you check that option to turn it on, that information is ALWAYS and HAS ALWAYS been kept locally and not transmitted anywhere in any way.

Also I would point you to the GeoTrust button on the bottom right column of the website: GeoTrust Malware Scan Anti-Malware Scan WEBSITE SCANNED: whatpulse.org LAST SCANNED: PASSED (Apr 20, 2012 UTC)

I... Uh...

Honestly, I probably should have seen this coming. Space, E, T, and Backspace are the 5-8th respectively.

I see your picture and raise you my heat chart. Apparently, I strafe to the left a lot.

And my Key Frequencies.

That's right: 2 Million KeyStrokes as of two months ago. Yeah.

Whatpulse will track the number of keystrokes, mouse clicks, and how many miles you've moved your mouse. I've been using it since 200...7, I believe, and I've hit 18,000,000 keystrokes.

http://whatpulse.org/

In five weeks I've typed 1 million, and had 0.5 million clicks. And moved 15 miles. You've done five times more in ten times as long. I think I might spend a little too much time on the computer.

http://whatpulse.org/stats/users/332784/

You mean a nice place? For the program? Sure, no problem. fridgesoft!

It's the OdoPlus one, if you're after the one I used to record. Alternatively you can have a look at WhatPulse, but I haven't tried that myself so I don't know what it's like.

I'm not really aware of Display Fusion's alternatives. I use it for different backgrounds on my monitors, changing the background when I log in, and sending windows to the opposite monitor quickly.

The only real purpose of What Pulse is to gather stats. http://whatpulse.org/whatis/

Whatpulse can keep track of key frequencies for you as well as other statistics. I have over 9 million keystrokes counted since I started using it. I'm just one person but here are my most frequent keys if anyone's curious to see a graph with other computer keys... as far as letters go it is about the same as OP's picture. I guess I play some video games that require the arrow keys :P I use mousekeys too but those are counted as mouse actions rather than keystrokes.

You many be interested in WhatPulse; it sits in your system tray and tracks how many times you hit keys, click, and how far you move your mouse. With that, you can generate images like this (Windows keys are used for Windows key combinations (show desktop, lock screen, maximize window, etc). For example, since March 6, I have hit over a million keys, half a million clicks, and moved my mouse 27 miles.

You should install WhatPulse. It logs every key, click, and movement in your mouse. Since 12/30/2009, I have clicked 2,392,710 keys, Clicked my mouse 3,113,299 times, and moved my mouse 154.04 miles.