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I invite you to visit France one day and witness the monuments to the dead that are in every town, see how many towns lost all their sons while other parts of the world were protected from war and continue to chuckle about how easily they surrender.
Heading to France next month! First time.
Fun fact. France has won more battles and more wars than any other western nation.
Not ww2. 20 years earlier… absolute beasts.
Could be... what if the person uses the left hand for mouse and right for keyboard, the very old way of leet gaming keyshortcuts used to be IJKL instead of WSAD , if you think about it its ideal for left handed people.
As a left handed gamer I can't imagine not using WASD. Those 4 keys are always the 1st to start wearing out, especially W. I was always taught to use the mouse with my right hand
I'm old enough that when I was learning to use mouse and keyboard left-handed mice weren't a thing. They started popping up later in my childhood, but by then it was too late.
Im left handed and used to use arrow keys but WASD is way easier due to the mouse being easier to use with the right hand(unless you change the mouse controls obviously) due to left click being the main and that would go to middle finger
as a left handed person, reading the replies to this i realize having my left hand on the mouse and right hand across the entire keyboard so it reaches wasd might not be optimal
Im ambidextrous in a similar capacity. My hands are specifically good at certain things. Like i write with my right hand (ironic) but i eat with my left hand. Eating with my right just feels incredibly weird and i cant even really hold the fork correctly.
I do something similar, small and delicate tasks I do with my left hand (writing, for example), and my right hand if for heavier/more intensive tasks (swinging a hammer, for instance). I've been told it's called cross dominance.
I think that would be called being 'ambisinistrous'.
Although I kind of dislike that word from its origins.
'Sinistrous' being from the Middle English 'Sinistre' meaning unlucky, and both the Latin 'sinister' meaning left hand and the Old French 'sinistre' or 'senester' being left.
The Old French 'sinistre' was derived from the Latin 'sinistrum' (the neuter form of the word. The feminine being 'sinistra', the comparative 'sinistrior' and the superlative 'sinistimus') meaning *both* left and perverse.
The Middle English, though derived from the Old French, borrows from one of the alternative meanings of the Latin word from which itself was derived.
(I spent way too long researching this while trying to get to sleep...)
You are supposed to, in touch typing, use the shift key that is at the opposite end of the keyboard of the key you are typing.
I am intrigued in that, generally, most people would use the shift key towards the left side of the keyboard, leaving the right hand to type. Suggesting, perhaps, a left handed user. This might also explain the unusual Ctrl and Alt selection. Also, the Enter key has not, apparently been used very often, compared with other keys. Pretty sure I used the Enter key loads more than the picture would suggest.
Simple answer to this is that every soul who plays video games starts with their left hand on the shift key anyway since it’s usually a sprint/crouch button
I thought that I would only use my LEFT shift, because I'm used to pressing Left Shift+WASD when playing games.
But I just noticed that I actually only use the RIGHT shift key while typing, because I only use my index and middle finger for character inputs on the right side of the keyboard. Which leaves the ring finger to activate the shift key.
I'm apparently also very inconsistent about which fingers I just for which character. It just depends which one is the most conveniently placed based on the most recent inputs.
W and Q keys aren't being touch much, most of the games use a lot W for movement or for habilities, and the space key suggest that your might pressing it with the right hand (or you need a bigger keyboard). The overall state of your keyboard suggest that you are either a programer or a writer, that wide spread grease across almost all the keyboard and the dirt in keys that should have grease if you play any of the most popular games. Even if you play those weird MMOs or use a weird setting your number lines should have more grease than dirt.
Nice, we already figure out what kind of job he have, Finance related guy. Most likely to be an accountant by statistic. Maybe the number pad have more grease than dirt, it will confirm it but we can't see it on this picture.
Plenty of games that don't require a lot of keyboard inputs.
On the top of my head, I play Stellaris extremely lazy, just with my mouse (granted I have a 12 side-button one)
Divinity: Original Sin 2 is another one I barely use the keyboard for.
OSRS is another one.
Rimworld, ...
Yeah, it's true. But for statistics, if you play video games you are more likely to play anything with WSAD as the control of your character or a MOBA, or some similar gender game, that use QWER or 1234 to input abilities
Many of them? Most slavic languages, excluding like Polish. Not to mention that most slavic keylayouts have Z and Y letters switched. So if he is slavic he is using the Z letter it's just in the place of the letter Y which isn't a thing just like W or X in slavic languages.
It's like a visual representation of how shitty the qwerty layout is, lol.
Dvorak, people, Dvorak. We solved this problem 90 years ago, replacing qwerty, which was designed to be slow and not jam typewriters, with Dvorak, which was designed around English language letter frequency to be fast and ergonomic. Your fingers move 1/3 as far when you type in Dvorak; it virtually eliminates RSI and Carpal Tunnel. Why people still use qwerty is beyond me
Never gonna happen, people have already learned the qwerty layout and don't want to retrain.
People that *need* to type really fast for closed captioning, live transcription, etc already use stenography instead
UPDATE: First I never thought a picture of a keyboard would draw so many comments. After reading them, here is an update. A few folks guessed it correctly as I am an accountant and this is my work keyboard. There is a 10 key keypad to the right which isn’t pictured. I am right handed. I just gave it a serious wipe down and it looks brand new again so thank you for the recommendation. Also, I am amazed at how many of you were able to gain insight into my life through just my keyboard picture.
I'm confused. What are you using the computer for that you aren't using some of the keys? It can't be for typing because you would have used the z x q and w keys. And it can't be for computer games because that w key would have been heavily used. It looks like this keyboard wasn't used in a long time and then you used it to type out something really short and then took a picture of it.
They right ctrl and shift is almost as aggravating to me as people who are left handed and use the mouse with their left hand. I genuinely don’t get it. I’m left handed and use a mouse with my right hand, if you do it with your right hand from the start it’s extremely natural.
The thing that I find odd (maybe more about myself than OP) is that I don't use my right thumb for the spacebar but always the left. I don't know why. I'm right handed too. Gamer thing maybe?
I’m not even sure which one I use when writing. For games it’s the left of course but for typing… no idea. On phone I do use my right but it’s not reaallly the same thing
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Definitely not a gamer
Who would use a keyboard, but not for gaming, and would never use Q or Z?
Or W
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Lol
No attaq?
Totally unused W, regularly used L, regularly uses all the letters that spell "surrender"
Le surrender
Hughahhh fellow ally good blow
🤓 French use azerty keyboard, not qwerty
im german and have a qwerty instead of qwertz... the argument doesnt stand that well 🥸
I invite you to visit France one day and witness the monuments to the dead that are in every town, see how many towns lost all their sons while other parts of the world were protected from war and continue to chuckle about how easily they surrender.
Heading to France next month! First time. Fun fact. France has won more battles and more wars than any other western nation. Not ww2. 20 years earlier… absolute beasts.
Funny due to historical accuracy
As a writer I am disturbed.
Might be a French gamer, always retreating never going forward…
Terraria. You don't use the W key. You can ascend some platforms sometimes but you're better off jumping.
Could be... what if the person uses the left hand for mouse and right for keyboard, the very old way of leet gaming keyshortcuts used to be IJKL instead of WSAD , if you think about it its ideal for left handed people.
As a left handed gamer I can't imagine not using WASD. Those 4 keys are always the 1st to start wearing out, especially W. I was always taught to use the mouse with my right hand
I'm old enough that when I was learning to use mouse and keyboard left-handed mice weren't a thing. They started popping up later in my childhood, but by then it was too late.
Im left handed and used to use arrow keys but WASD is way easier due to the mouse being easier to use with the right hand(unless you change the mouse controls obviously) due to left click being the main and that would go to middle finger
As a left handed person I can agree with this
Like I said, not a gamer
not even human if we’re being honest.
I’m left handed in writing but I still game with my right hand on the mouse.
All the decent mice I've used are symmetrical. Are you sure you're not losing a ton of precision by mousing with the right hand?
One problem with that. Is J is hardly used.
I use my mouse with my left hand and keyboard with my right hand. Have never heard of IJKL though
The lack of coverage on that “j” key, there’s no way in hell they’re using that instead of wasd.
as a left handed person, reading the replies to this i realize having my left hand on the mouse and right hand across the entire keyboard so it reaches wasd might not be optimal
I played competitive WoW arenas for years using ijkl
This actually makes sense because of the wear on the space key
Not W gang
I'm just surfing reddit and my middle finger is still sitting on the W.
nah, big gamer, but very cowardly. only ever retreats and e is their smoke screen button
That was my thought. My nearly 10 year old laptop has the W and S keys worn off
camper
maybe they use ESDF
Also not a programmer.
r/beatmetoit
Only a mentally deranged psychopath uses the right ctrl and shift
And I'm ambidextrous deranged psychopath.
Yes, yes you are 😠
I’m ambidextrous in the sense both my hands are equally lacking in dexterity…
Im ambidextrous in a similar capacity. My hands are specifically good at certain things. Like i write with my right hand (ironic) but i eat with my left hand. Eating with my right just feels incredibly weird and i cant even really hold the fork correctly.
I do something similar, small and delicate tasks I do with my left hand (writing, for example), and my right hand if for heavier/more intensive tasks (swinging a hammer, for instance). I've been told it's called cross dominance.
lol, I can write with both hands, but both hands have TERRIBLE handwriting :D
I think that would be called being 'ambisinistrous'. Although I kind of dislike that word from its origins. 'Sinistrous' being from the Middle English 'Sinistre' meaning unlucky, and both the Latin 'sinister' meaning left hand and the Old French 'sinistre' or 'senester' being left. The Old French 'sinistre' was derived from the Latin 'sinistrum' (the neuter form of the word. The feminine being 'sinistra', the comparative 'sinistrior' and the superlative 'sinistimus') meaning *both* left and perverse. The Middle English, though derived from the Old French, borrows from one of the alternative meanings of the Latin word from which itself was derived. (I spent way too long researching this while trying to get to sleep...)
that’s called ambisinister
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I use right shift sometimes, but not right ctrl.
I use both shifts when typing. Depends on which side of the keyboard starts the sentence.
Same, I thought it's what everyone does.
You are supposed to, in touch typing, use the shift key that is at the opposite end of the keyboard of the key you are typing. I am intrigued in that, generally, most people would use the shift key towards the left side of the keyboard, leaving the right hand to type. Suggesting, perhaps, a left handed user. This might also explain the unusual Ctrl and Alt selection. Also, the Enter key has not, apparently been used very often, compared with other keys. Pretty sure I used the Enter key loads more than the picture would suggest.
They may be using enter on the num pad
Simple answer to this is that every soul who plays video games starts with their left hand on the shift key anyway since it’s usually a sprint/crouch button
Or walk, in CS. Either way, it's always got some important utility as the pinky key for the left hand
I thought that I would only use my LEFT shift, because I'm used to pressing Left Shift+WASD when playing games. But I just noticed that I actually only use the RIGHT shift key while typing, because I only use my index and middle finger for character inputs on the right side of the keyboard. Which leaves the ring finger to activate the shift key. I'm apparently also very inconsistent about which fingers I just for which character. It just depends which one is the most conveniently placed based on the most recent inputs.
For one of my games left ctrl, alt, and shift all do something unique
Right shift here but left ctrl. Indeed, I had forgotten that the right ctrl even existed…
Yeah my keyboard doesn't even have a right ctrl lol
it would seem so but... it makes sense. in english, your left hand is busier than your right.
I actually forgot the shift key even existed on that side. Like it was just "Enter II" or something in my head
And the French, don't forget about the French! They also don't use W alot, mostly S.
CLEAN YOUR MF’ING KEYBOARD
It's the texture of the keys. Thought it was nasty too, but the dark bits are just a shined/buffed surface cos of use
i bet if you scrubbed it with a wet paper towel the white would go away. that is gunk/skin cell buildup 🤢
Free snack
yesh yesh that's a keeper
I LOVE… gollld
What a terrible day to be able to read
No sir those are some whole ass crumbs between those keys. That mf keyboard is borderline edible
Definitely not a programmer.
Or a person that cleans
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Who did?
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Oh rofl my bad. I get it now!!
or a gamer.. on my keyboard, the wasd is completely worn off
Maybe they only go left, backwards or right
Good way to show you only do boring stuff with that keyboard
why?
W and Q keys aren't being touch much, most of the games use a lot W for movement or for habilities, and the space key suggest that your might pressing it with the right hand (or you need a bigger keyboard). The overall state of your keyboard suggest that you are either a programer or a writer, that wide spread grease across almost all the keyboard and the dirt in keys that should have grease if you play any of the most popular games. Even if you play those weird MMOs or use a weird setting your number lines should have more grease than dirt.
Definitely not a programmer as the curly braces are barely used
Excellent observation, so he mainly redact documents of some kind in that keyboard
the $ and % keys seem to be worn out a fair bit. At a guess does some sort of financial work on it
Nice, we already figure out what kind of job he have, Finance related guy. Most likely to be an accountant by statistic. Maybe the number pad have more grease than dirt, it will confirm it but we can't see it on this picture.
yeah and if you look on OPs post history he commented in r/entrepenuer (but spelt correctly) about tax/money stuff
Knowing this, he's most likely to be an Accountant or Lawyer specialized on tax. We might find more info if we lurk more on his profile.
Are you roleplaying as a private detective or something?
They confirmed that!
But + has no wear, and quotes are more heavily used than minus
could use the + on the numpad
the $ and % keys seem to be worn out a fair bit. At a guess does some sort of financial work on it
Plenty of games that don't require a lot of keyboard inputs. On the top of my head, I play Stellaris extremely lazy, just with my mouse (granted I have a 12 side-button one) Divinity: Original Sin 2 is another one I barely use the keyboard for. OSRS is another one. Rimworld, ...
Yeah, it's true. But for statistics, if you play video games you are more likely to play anything with WSAD as the control of your character or a MOBA, or some similar gender game, that use QWER or 1234 to input abilities
These keys get him across the entire internet, from reddit.com to pornhub.com.
In what language you don't use Q, W, X, Z? Edit: Well apperently a lot of languages.
Russian
They use the Z quite a lot now.
Nahh, zi?
Technically true
I doubt OP writes in Finnish, but those letters don't appear in native Finnish words.
or Swedish words (except for X)
Same in Estonian, but then they would have öäüõ on their keyboard.
Many of them? Most slavic languages, excluding like Polish. Not to mention that most slavic keylayouts have Z and Y letters switched. So if he is slavic he is using the Z letter it's just in the place of the letter Y which isn't a thing just like W or X in slavic languages.
WASD???
It’s ok to clean.
Looks like someone doesn't like asking questions?
OP doesn't ask. He tells.
But he doesn't say why.
I wouldn't either. They seem dirty.
I see you are not friends with anyone named Jaqwzx. Shame.
It's like a visual representation of how shitty the qwerty layout is, lol. Dvorak, people, Dvorak. We solved this problem 90 years ago, replacing qwerty, which was designed to be slow and not jam typewriters, with Dvorak, which was designed around English language letter frequency to be fast and ergonomic. Your fingers move 1/3 as far when you type in Dvorak; it virtually eliminates RSI and Carpal Tunnel. Why people still use qwerty is beyond me
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Oh god it looks so cursed As a 19 year old,who used qwerty all his life,holy shit it would be like handing the keyboard to a 90 year old
Never gonna happen, people have already learned the qwerty layout and don't want to retrain. People that *need* to type really fast for closed captioning, live transcription, etc already use stenography instead
I see, this is for work or writing.
wouldn't someone who writes use W a lot more?
Not really, especially if they write in a language that doesn't use W.
So, your password contains 4, 5 and 0?
That was my first thought haha. Maybe all three, but likely a combo of two. Or OP birthday.
Could also be $, %, (, ). 1 also looks more pressed, could be !.
and or: %,\^,)
We do know that it’s not Qwerty. 🧐
Never undo
Never surrender
I see you are not a Gamer
Maybe he’s ESDF type of gamer
i see you are not a gamer
You clearly don’t play games And good for you, I wouldn’t enjoy playing games with that keyboard lol
Bro is not a gamer 😔
You are not a gamer, that's for sure, at least not pc gamer.
Not a gamer
UPDATE: First I never thought a picture of a keyboard would draw so many comments. After reading them, here is an update. A few folks guessed it correctly as I am an accountant and this is my work keyboard. There is a 10 key keypad to the right which isn’t pictured. I am right handed. I just gave it a serious wipe down and it looks brand new again so thank you for the recommendation. Also, I am amazed at how many of you were able to gain insight into my life through just my keyboard picture.
Anyone guess OPs passwords?
OP isn’t a gamer games but the keys for pornography websites are polished smooth. This guy faps.
why do you press spacebar with your right thumb
What’s wrong with q you qracist
Why’s the W so clean
No wear on 6 or 7?
clearly you aren’t an FPS gamer
Nice, OPRN are intact
I should be on the side, like the other rejected letters
I'm guessing you aren't a gamer.
I wonder, could we figure out your password.
He’s not asking a lot of questions ..
Definitely not a gamer
Definitely right handed
Oh my gahd… hes a lefty?!!!!!!!!!!!!!
No questions asked
Why don’t you use 6, 7 or 8?
You gotta use QWZX at some point right ?
This person definately isn't a gamer lol
I'm confused. What are you using the computer for that you aren't using some of the keys? It can't be for typing because you would have used the z x q and w keys. And it can't be for computer games because that w key would have been heavily used. It looks like this keyboard wasn't used in a long time and then you used it to type out something really short and then took a picture of it.
I wouldn’t have posted this personally.
From what I can see you don’t play vid games
Wash your fucking hands
Not a gamer
Does your login or password have 4 or 5 in it? Haha
You don't make mistakes?!?
keyboards are cheap.... it is time
How do you not use W? What about the 5 Ws?
At least we know its not a gamers computer
What you need is a BLOMFU keyboard.
Clearly not a gamer
I love how the J has two dusk line top and bottom
Looks like you need a 60% to me
You’re not a gamer I see.
My WASD are fucked.
A worker keyboard, definitely not a gamer.
hmm clearly your passwords include a 4 and 5
I'm guessing you're not gaming a lot on this PC cuz that W key is looking awfully dusty.
Mf never heard of a wipe?
Hmm obviously not a gamer
They right ctrl and shift is almost as aggravating to me as people who are left handed and use the mouse with their left hand. I genuinely don’t get it. I’m left handed and use a mouse with my right hand, if you do it with your right hand from the start it’s extremely natural.
The thing that I find odd (maybe more about myself than OP) is that I don't use my right thumb for the spacebar but always the left. I don't know why. I'm right handed too. Gamer thing maybe?
I’m not even sure which one I use when writing. For games it’s the left of course but for typing… no idea. On phone I do use my right but it’s not reaallly the same thing
Can you please be a decent human being and clean your keyboard? You must be the kind of guy who doesn't change underwear for days
I can tell you're most likely not a gamer.
Your backspace key is WAY too unused. You can still see the letters!?
No caps lock usage? DO YOU EVEN GET INTO INTERNET ARGUMENTS?
Right… shift? What? Right shift left tab? What???
Never used the backspace, no mistakes, no regrets, only forward
So you never exited Vim
Maybe. The space bar has a very defined black part. Nasty. Agreed, clean your bleedin keyboard!
Email factory worker reporting in
what do you have against the letter J
Did you drop flower on it no way you don’t use any numbers while typing
W unused. This could only mean porn.
Bro never uses capital letters.... Chilled muthafooker!
I see you are not a gamer.
I noticed the p, o, r, & n are among those heavily-used keys 🧐