What keys on your keyboard that you not use?

Started by CJoE August 23rd, 2014 8:44 AM
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Tsutarja

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Pretty sure I've touched all keys on a keyboard at least once :P so I'd say I use them all for various functions, including accessing shortcuts to things.

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I don't think there's a key I've never used. I've pressed them all, mainly because I've done keyboard head-smashing sometimes.

In all seriousness it's the Page Up/Down keys and the Scroll Lock.
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Not many. Scroll lock I've never used and whatever this key below rshift is... *tries it* apparently it right clicks. lol
Hahaha, that's my situation. I've used almost every single key, but I guess that one is for right clicking... which makes sense, because (in Windows, at least) you can set a setting that makes it so that your arrow keys control the cursor. Useful if your mouse isn't working, I suppose.
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First of all, this thread immediately reminded me of this video


Since it's not 2005 anymore, I don't really use these ~~~~
I used to put 'em in my MSN name and stuff 'cause I thought it was so pretty~~, but yeah, don't really use the tilde key anymore. :P

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I'm looking to replace it, but my current keyboard has five macro keys. In the two years of owning it, I have never used the macro keys unless hit by accident. :P
It's a Black Widow. I have tiny hands and the macro keys are poorly positioned in a column on the far left of the keyboard. I can barely hit shift/ctrl with my pinky, much less M1-M5.

That's probably it. A lot of games have had me use just about everything at some point - even Sims makes use of ~, Page up/down, Home, End, and a few other things I'd otherwise never touch, haha.

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I rarely ever use my Fn key, caps lock except for when I randomly hit it on accident or it magically hits itself, tab, ~ that thing, ` that thing, +=, \|, brackets, sexy brackets, or this button on my keyboard that I have no idea what it even does. Looks like a piece of paper with a mouse pointer over it. No idea.
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Right control; scroll lock; non-number keys of the number pad. Oh, and this:
this button on my keyboard that I have no idea what it even does. Looks like a piece of paper with a mouse pointer over it. No idea.
What it does is open the right-click menu.

Tsutarja

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I never use the insert key ever. I actually don't know what it's even for.
The Insert key is what toggles spacing/adding and replacing by the insertion point. Like if I enable the Insert function on my keyboard, place the insertion point in between letters, and type something else, instead of the characters being pushed behind what I'm typing, they're being replaced instead.

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Keys I never use in no particular order:
most of the F# keys, F5 and F11 seem to get some love from the web browser though
Scroll lock, Pause/break, Insert, Home, End, Page up, Page down, Num Lock, §.
I do use the Caps Lock key a lot though, since I've remapped it to Alt and remapped Alt to the Windows key, which apparently didn't exist back in 1994 when the keyboard was made.

As for the insert key, i hate the times where I accidentally hit it and it starts removing stuff. Seriously, who needs that feature?