This is the result of a lot of time spent analyzing "random" keyboard presses. ================================================ In my survey, I asked everyone to randomly mash their keyboard for at least 200 characters. After removing the outliers (such as the person who just happened to accidentally press the key 13428 times), I had 41934 characters worth of key mashing. That's an 82kb file. Then I searched the entire thing for every common character (letters, numbers, and some basic punctuation... all the basic stuff you can type with your keyboard) and calculated the amount of times each key was pressed. Then I created this project which renders a heatmap of the keys. You can see the scale on the left side of the project. The top of the scale (green) were the keys which were pressed the most, and the bottom of the scale (blue) were pressed the least. Clearly, the center keys got pressed far more than the outer keys when people were asked to "randomly" mash their keyboard. Pretty fun. You can find the filtered (ie. not 13428 dolphins) version of the text here if you want to play around with the data yourself: https://github.com/PullJosh/files/blob/gh-pages/key_mash.txt More projects about the results coming soon.
Survey link (I won't be using any new responses I get, so don't waste your time. :P) - https://scratch.mit.edu/projects/92209048/
