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These Are The Three Most Popular Keys On A Keyboard

Pop quiz: What are the three most popular keys on a computer's keyboard?

Microsoft's Senior Product Marketing Manger for Hardware Suneel Goud was at our office showing us some of the company's ergonomic keyboards. 

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While doing the demo, he told us the three most popular keys. 

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The third most popular is... the "backspace" key. 

The second most popular is... the letter "e".

The number one most popular is... the space bar.

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Another fun fact from Goud: 90% of people only use nine fingers when typing — they don't use their left thumb, because they use their right thumb to hammer the space bar.

Microsoft built a keyboard with a split space bar. The left space bar can be converted into a backspace button so people can hit the third most popular key with their unused left thumb. 

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