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goo Ranking took a look at what keyboard keys people frankly don’t really know how to use in Windows.

Demographics

Over the 6th and 7th of February 2013 1,122 members of the goo Research monitor group completed a private internet-based questionnaire. 60.1% of the sample were female, 10.2% in their teens, 16.6% in their twenties, 26.5% in their thirties, 25.0% in their forties, 11.1% in their fifties, and 10.6% aged sixty or older. Note that the score in the results refers to the relative number of votes for each option, not a percentage of the total sample.

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Note that for number 3 especially, to find out what the F-keys do they just need to press the help key… For myself, I only know what the unshifted F1, F5 and F10 do; I’m not aware of the Microsoft-recommended behaviour of the rest.

Ranking result

Q: What keyboard keys do you quite frankly not understand where or when to use in Windows? (Sample size=1,122)

Rank		Score
1	Sys Rq	100
2	F12	66.7
3	F1	66.5
4	F3	65.5
5	F11	63.9
6	F2	63.7
7	F4	62.6
8=	Ins	56.5
8=	F6	56.5
10	F10	56,3
11	F5	56.3
12	Pause/Break	55.4
13	F9	52.4
14	前候補, zenkouho, previous candidate	49.1
15	Menu key	48.7
16=	Alt	43.3
16=	PrtScr (Print Screen)	43.3
18=	ScrL (Scroll Lock)	42.9
18=	F8	42.9
20	NumLK (Num Lock)	42.3
21=	PgUp (Page Up)	36.8
21=	F7	36.8
23	PgDn (Page Down)	36.3
24	Windows key	31.2
25	無変換, muhenkan, non-conversion	29.8
26	End	25.5
27	Home	25.1
28=	Ctrl	21.4
28=	CapsLock/英数, eisuu, alphanumerics	21.4
30	Esc	18.1
31	Tab	16.4
32	Del (Delete)	13.8
33	Back Space	8.4
34	変換, henkan, conversion	6.4
35	カタカナ ひらがな, katakana hiragana	4.9