The 'Backspace' button is the third most used on your average keyboard. Just behind 'e' and the spacebar.
In 2013, Bill Gates admitted that the Ctrl+Alt+Delete command was a mistake, and should have been a single button.
At any given second, the space bar on a computer or phone keyboard is being pressed six million times.
Though most people are right-handed, but when using a computer keyboard, on average, our left hands are responsible for 56 per cent of the keystrokes.
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The longest "left handed" words on a keyboard are "aftercataracts" and "tesseradecades."
The "@" sign was very close to being eliminated from the standard keyboard until 1971, when Ray Tomlinson wrote it into the code used to send the first email.
The "#" symbol on the keyboard is called an octothorpe.
The average keyboard contains 3,295 microbes per square inch.
Every 10,000 words typed by a user on a QWERTY keyboard is equivalent to their fingers having traveled 1 mile.
Standard QWERTY keyboards are used in China. Chinese users are familiar with the sounds that Latin letters make, and they type in the way their characters sound when spoken out loud. Software then translates the sound they typed into a Chinese character.
Every second, spacebars on keyboards around the world are hit about six million times.
In 2013, Bill Gates admitted that the Ctrl+Alt+Delete command was a mistake, and should have been a single button.
At any given second, the space bar on a computer or phone keyboard is being pressed six million times.
Though most people are right-handed, but when using a computer keyboard, on average, our left hands are responsible for 56 per cent of the keystrokes.
The longest "left handed" words on a keyboard are "aftercataracts" and "tesseradecades."
The "@" sign was very close to being eliminated from the standard keyboard until 1971, when Ray Tomlinson wrote it into the code used to send the first email.
The "#" symbol on the keyboard is called an octothorpe.
The average keyboard contains 3,295 microbes per square inch.
Every 10,000 words typed by a user on a QWERTY keyboard is equivalent to their fingers having traveled 1 mile.
Standard QWERTY keyboards are used in China. Chinese users are familiar with the sounds that Latin letters make, and they type in the way their characters sound when spoken out loud. Software then translates the sound they typed into a Chinese character.
Every second, spacebars on keyboards around the world are hit about six million times.
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