Top 5 Most Hated Keys on the Keyboard Dana Costello

As a software engineer, your most useful tool for communicating with your computer is your keyboard. Probably followed in close second by your monitor. (Note this is the sole opinion of the author of this article…which is correct). So in considering my keyboard, I came up with things I hate because I am filled with rage and sugar. So without further ado, I present:

The Top 5 Most Hated (and dare I say, feared?) Keys on the Keyboard

5. The “Insert” key.
How many times have you gone to hit the delete key and pressed the insert key by accident? All you wanted to do was erase that extra “e” that you end up putting at the end of like every worde and put in a sentence about necessary data types and all of a sudden, you’re typing all willy-nilly over some system requirement. Ridiculous.

4. The “Insert” key.
Have you actually ever tried using the “Insert” key for good instead of evil? It doesn’t even work. I was trying to fill out some contract for (that’s right, you guessed it) my wedding and I thought “Hey I could use the insert key to write over these lines that were supposed to be guides if you were filling it out by hand”. Yeah I thought that. Don’t judge me. I ended up just chewing up the rest of the field names so it ended up like this: Brides Name: Dana Costelloom’s Name: ________. Annoying.

3. The “Insert” key
It doesn’t light up when it’s engaged (even “Caps Lock” lights up a light on the keyboard), so you can’t do a quick check on the keyboard to see if you’re going to be typing all willy-nilly. It actually expects you to pay attention to the cursor changing to whatever the default cursor change is for that program. Devious.

2. The “Scroll Lock” key
Because I don’t know what it does. Confusing.

And ladies and gentlemen, coming in at number 1….
1. The “Insert” key
The reason this is number one is because Evil. I actually wrote a reason between “because” and evil but I had to go back and put in “The reason this is number one is because” but I had the “Insert” key on by accident and it overwrote it…now, we may never know.

Honorable mentions are: The “Windows” key, “F1″, “F2″, (Probably some more “F”-keys), “Num Lock” when it’s not engaged, “Caps Lock” and “Pause/Break”

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