Skip to content
  • Categories
  • Recent
  • Tags
  • Popular
  • World
  • Users
  • Groups
Skins
  • Light
  • Cerulean
  • Cosmo
  • Flatly
  • Journal
  • Litera
  • Lumen
  • Lux
  • Materia
  • Minty
  • Morph
  • Pulse
  • Sandstone
  • Simplex
  • Sketchy
  • Spacelab
  • United
  • Yeti
  • Zephyr
  • Dark
  • Cyborg
  • Darkly
  • Quartz
  • Slate
  • Solar
  • Superhero
  • Vapor

  • Default (No Skin)
  • No Skin
Collapse
Code Project
  1. Home
  2. The Lounge
  3. Which keyboard key do you hit the most while using Visual Studio?

Which keyboard key do you hit the most while using Visual Studio?

Scheduled Pinned Locked Moved The Lounge
csharpvisual-studioquestion
33 Posts 28 Posters 0 Views 1 Watching
  • Oldest to Newest
  • Newest to Oldest
  • Most Votes
Reply
  • Reply as topic
Log in to reply
This topic has been deleted. Only users with topic management privileges can see it.
  • A Anurag Gandhi

    I was just thinking if anyone has analysed which keyboard key is used most while using Visaul Studio. Some of the candidates (IMO) are: "F5", "." (dot), "Tab", "Enter", "Space" I would like to exclude "Ctrl", "Shift" and "Alt" for obvious reasons (They mostly need to be pressed in combination of other keys). It would be fun to write a visual studio extension which can give me the stats about keyboard hits. :) I am not sure if it already exists.

    Life is a computer program and everyone is the programmer of his own life.

    A Offline
    A Offline
    Arav Singhal
    wrote on last edited by
    #21

    Arrow keys (for IntelliSense), dot and space

    1 Reply Last reply
    0
    • A Anurag Gandhi

      I was just thinking if anyone has analysed which keyboard key is used most while using Visaul Studio. Some of the candidates (IMO) are: "F5", "." (dot), "Tab", "Enter", "Space" I would like to exclude "Ctrl", "Shift" and "Alt" for obvious reasons (They mostly need to be pressed in combination of other keys). It would be fun to write a visual studio extension which can give me the stats about keyboard hits. :) I am not sure if it already exists.

      Life is a computer program and everyone is the programmer of his own life.

      G Offline
      G Offline
      Greyze
      wrote on last edited by
      #22

      I'm the same as most posts here, but the second most press keys are ALT + G. With the Visual Assist addon that combo goes to definition/decleration of a variable, function, object, header file etc.

      1 Reply Last reply
      0
      • A Anurag Gandhi

        I was just thinking if anyone has analysed which keyboard key is used most while using Visaul Studio. Some of the candidates (IMO) are: "F5", "." (dot), "Tab", "Enter", "Space" I would like to exclude "Ctrl", "Shift" and "Alt" for obvious reasons (They mostly need to be pressed in combination of other keys). It would be fun to write a visual studio extension which can give me the stats about keyboard hits. :) I am not sure if it already exists.

        Life is a computer program and everyone is the programmer of his own life.

        M Offline
        M Offline
        maze3
        wrote on last edited by
        #23

        =, equals sign not sure really. but the braces {} are starting to annoy me. MVC/Web API/Javascript -> and very little use of brackets [] compared to braces, yet to use braces need to SHIFT+]. AHH

        1 Reply Last reply
        0
        • A Anurag Gandhi

          I was just thinking if anyone has analysed which keyboard key is used most while using Visaul Studio. Some of the candidates (IMO) are: "F5", "." (dot), "Tab", "Enter", "Space" I would like to exclude "Ctrl", "Shift" and "Alt" for obvious reasons (They mostly need to be pressed in combination of other keys). It would be fun to write a visual studio extension which can give me the stats about keyboard hits. :) I am not sure if it already exists.

          Life is a computer program and everyone is the programmer of his own life.

          M Offline
          M Offline
          Member 11074656
          wrote on last edited by
          #24

          When I fall asleep, I usually type 'd'.. dddddddddd

          1 Reply Last reply
          0
          • A Anurag Gandhi

            I was just thinking if anyone has analysed which keyboard key is used most while using Visaul Studio. Some of the candidates (IMO) are: "F5", "." (dot), "Tab", "Enter", "Space" I would like to exclude "Ctrl", "Shift" and "Alt" for obvious reasons (They mostly need to be pressed in combination of other keys). It would be fun to write a visual studio extension which can give me the stats about keyboard hits. :) I am not sure if it already exists.

            Life is a computer program and everyone is the programmer of his own life.

            A Offline
            A Offline
            Andrei Bozantan
            wrote on last edited by
            #25

            j, k, w, b, SHIFT+*, n (using vsvim)

            If you can't explain something to a six year old, you really don't understand it yourself. (Albert Einstein)

            1 Reply Last reply
            0
            • A Anurag Gandhi

              I was just thinking if anyone has analysed which keyboard key is used most while using Visaul Studio. Some of the candidates (IMO) are: "F5", "." (dot), "Tab", "Enter", "Space" I would like to exclude "Ctrl", "Shift" and "Alt" for obvious reasons (They mostly need to be pressed in combination of other keys). It would be fun to write a visual studio extension which can give me the stats about keyboard hits. :) I am not sure if it already exists.

              Life is a computer program and everyone is the programmer of his own life.

              J Offline
              J Offline
              James Curran
              wrote on last edited by
              #26

              Since I use Tab to trigger Intellisense selection, I essentially end every word with it, which would probably make it the most common key.

              Truth, James

              1 Reply Last reply
              0
              • A Anurag Gandhi

                I was just thinking if anyone has analysed which keyboard key is used most while using Visaul Studio. Some of the candidates (IMO) are: "F5", "." (dot), "Tab", "Enter", "Space" I would like to exclude "Ctrl", "Shift" and "Alt" for obvious reasons (They mostly need to be pressed in combination of other keys). It would be fun to write a visual studio extension which can give me the stats about keyboard hits. :) I am not sure if it already exists.

                Life is a computer program and everyone is the programmer of his own life.

                S Offline
                S Offline
                StatementTerminator
                wrote on last edited by
                #27

                According to the wear pattern on my keyboard, it's the FFFFFFFFFFFFFF key.

                1 Reply Last reply
                0
                • P PJ Arends

                  I agree. Followed closely by Delete.

                  Within you lies the power for good - Use it!

                  S Offline
                  S Offline
                  sam silvercreek
                  wrote on last edited by
                  #28

                  Followed eventually by CTRL+Z!

                  1 Reply Last reply
                  0
                  • A Anurag Gandhi

                    I was just thinking if anyone has analysed which keyboard key is used most while using Visaul Studio. Some of the candidates (IMO) are: "F5", "." (dot), "Tab", "Enter", "Space" I would like to exclude "Ctrl", "Shift" and "Alt" for obvious reasons (They mostly need to be pressed in combination of other keys). It would be fun to write a visual studio extension which can give me the stats about keyboard hits. :) I am not sure if it already exists.

                    Life is a computer program and everyone is the programmer of his own life.

                    J Offline
                    J Offline
                    josh clay
                    wrote on last edited by
                    #29

                    Tab, for sure.

                    1 Reply Last reply
                    0
                    • A Anurag Gandhi

                      I was just thinking if anyone has analysed which keyboard key is used most while using Visaul Studio. Some of the candidates (IMO) are: "F5", "." (dot), "Tab", "Enter", "Space" I would like to exclude "Ctrl", "Shift" and "Alt" for obvious reasons (They mostly need to be pressed in combination of other keys). It would be fun to write a visual studio extension which can give me the stats about keyboard hits. :) I am not sure if it already exists.

                      Life is a computer program and everyone is the programmer of his own life.

                      Y Offline
                      Y Offline
                      Yortw
                      wrote on last edited by
                      #30

                      F1, but it's always by accident :((

                      1 Reply Last reply
                      0
                      • A Anurag Gandhi

                        I was just thinking if anyone has analysed which keyboard key is used most while using Visaul Studio. Some of the candidates (IMO) are: "F5", "." (dot), "Tab", "Enter", "Space" I would like to exclude "Ctrl", "Shift" and "Alt" for obvious reasons (They mostly need to be pressed in combination of other keys). It would be fun to write a visual studio extension which can give me the stats about keyboard hits. :) I am not sure if it already exists.

                        Life is a computer program and everyone is the programmer of his own life.

                        U Offline
                        U Offline
                        User 10523452
                        wrote on last edited by
                        #31

                        Backspace seems pretty popular. But if we were talking strictly alphabetic or numeric, I'd say the "i" and "0" keys are pretty typical.

                        1 Reply Last reply
                        0
                        • A Anurag Gandhi

                          I was just thinking if anyone has analysed which keyboard key is used most while using Visaul Studio. Some of the candidates (IMO) are: "F5", "." (dot), "Tab", "Enter", "Space" I would like to exclude "Ctrl", "Shift" and "Alt" for obvious reasons (They mostly need to be pressed in combination of other keys). It would be fun to write a visual studio extension which can give me the stats about keyboard hits. :) I am not sure if it already exists.

                          Life is a computer program and everyone is the programmer of his own life.

                          O Offline
                          O Offline
                          obermd
                          wrote on last edited by
                          #32

                          Down arrow followed by backspace and delete.

                          1 Reply Last reply
                          0
                          • A Anurag Gandhi

                            I was just thinking if anyone has analysed which keyboard key is used most while using Visaul Studio. Some of the candidates (IMO) are: "F5", "." (dot), "Tab", "Enter", "Space" I would like to exclude "Ctrl", "Shift" and "Alt" for obvious reasons (They mostly need to be pressed in combination of other keys). It would be fun to write a visual studio extension which can give me the stats about keyboard hits. :) I am not sure if it already exists.

                            Life is a computer program and everyone is the programmer of his own life.

                            O Offline
                            O Offline
                            obermd
                            wrote on last edited by
                            #33

                            Down arrow followed by backspace, delete, and escape (to clear the help hints)

                            1 Reply Last reply
                            0
                            Reply
                            • Reply as topic
                            Log in to reply
                            • Oldest to Newest
                            • Newest to Oldest
                            • Most Votes


                            • Login

                            • Don't have an account? Register

                            • Login or register to search.
                            • First post
                              Last post
                            0
                            • Categories
                            • Recent
                            • Tags
                            • Popular
                            • World
                            • Users
                            • Groups