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How Many Keys Have You Pressed?
teardrop.ca writes
"A new project created by Jason Hooper involves the counting and displaying of statistical information regarding the number of keys you have pressed since sign-up to this project. A change from the distributed problem solving projects that have been around for awhile. " Finally
a truly frivelous use of distributed computing! It's a bit thin, looks like it
could be easily gamed, but damn it'd be funny if the whole world did this (never mind
the security and privacy issues). I'm curious how many more times some keys
are pressed then others (perhaps this would explain why my spacebars
always seem to break on my laptops :/)
The most pressed Slashdot keys...
F-I-R-S-T P-O-S-T
Ironic considering this might be the first post.
If you celebrate Xmas, befriend me (538
I knew a long time ago that distributed computing would truly make a difference in humanity's quest for knowledge. But I would never have imagined that we would be able to count and analyze keystroke data from users around the world. It is truly a great day for science! :p
Blatant sarcasm aside, this is moderately interesting. Any chances we'll see a linux client?
Learn to Play Go
I can see it now. Instead of KLOCs we will have MOKP (millions of keys pressed). My boss would love it!
Sean.OutaHere()
I have spent most of my life keeping track of the keys i have pressed! a= 3 I= 3 h= 2 v= 2 e= 9 s= 6 p= 4 oy, this was a lot hard then i thought, im going to take a nap
Mikey
I've always been the kinda guy to fall for the girl dressed like an eskimo.
I bet it's 1, 2, 3, and 4 this past year since all I seem to do is play D2, drink potions, and die anyway....
No offense teardrop.ca, but ah duh, did you expect any intelligent responses on this story?!
Generate a script that writes "the quick brown fox jumped over the lazy dog", it uses every letter in the english alphabet, over and over just to throw off their stats.
On a side note the keys at the support center here would be EU does not RTFM.
Stephen King should sign up and dominate you all.
The surest way to make a monkey of a man is to quote him. --Robert Benchley
Eventually, he would need only one key.
Would it be labeled "Any"?
Anyway, I hope you are trying to be funny, because I can't think of a less efficient way to type than having the keys move around on you.
-Peter
"Our research has confirmed that three keys are used most frequently by computer users: ctrl, alt, and delete."
Do you like German cars?
something which popped up every 1000 key strokes (or whatever) reminding you to give you wrists a rest.
.jpg files viewed, reminding you to give your wrists a rest. Wink Wink. You know what I mean.
Howabout, Something wich popped up every 100
Moneyed corporations, non-working 'poor' and criminal prisoners are turning productive citizens into tax-slaves.
Someone should calculate how much energy it takes to press a key, and write a program that counts how many calories you've burned. "Mom, let me have that extra desert, I've been playing Quake for two weeks!"
It's hard to be religious when certain people are never incinerated by bolts of lightning.
Eventually, he would need only one key.
Congratulations, you just invented the telegraph.
...when I can just ask the VX2 Corporation how many keys I've pressed?
[PowerPoint] is a tool for capitalist presentation
THAN" is the comparative you dumb shit! "THEN" is temporal!
How many times do you have to make the same stupid third grade grammatical error? Are you completely retarded, Taco?
It counts as 4 keystrokes either way. Soon that will be all that matters. Will save kids time, not having to take English.
When I ran Windows ME, Alt, Ctrl, and Delete were pretty high on the chart.
This isn't special...the FBI already logs all of my keystrokes for me...
:-)
i wonder if they'd be nice enough to hack together something to let me look at my stats
"this would explain why my spacebars always seem to break on my laptops"
If I look closely at my laptop spacebar, I notice that the texture on the right edge of the spacebar is much smoother than the left side. Conclusion: I press the spacebar with my right hand much more often than my left.
Hah, your program couldn't figure that out =P (And pressing just one side of a wide key will probably cause it to break in the long run!)