How well do you know your keyboard?

Just to confuse things, it's actually a 'grave' (pronounced 'grahv') accent. The acute accent is like this: 'é' (it dresses to the right). You are right, it's a key which has three symbols on it, none of which have a name which anyone recognises! The '`' is a grave accent (or possible a single opening quotation mark), the '¦' is called a 'pipe' and there is no name (or use), that I know of for '¬'. On the UK keyboard, at least, shift+\ is actually marked as a pipe '¦' but produces '|' (a vertical line, sometimes used as an 'OR' symbol in pseudocode) I have always described that key as 'the one below the Escape key' to my Excel students. {} are called 'curly brackets' or 'braces' (but they are only really 'braces' when they take up two or more lines vertically) and [] are 'square brackets' or just 'brackets'. () are 'parentheses' (often erroneously called 'brackets' because its a lot easier to say and type).

I do not know all the names for all the weird symbols above the numbers. I get confused between the regular brackets and the squared brackets and ave to check where to use them in writing. I think most of us are that way, but I do use the caret symbols, especially when making a password. And I do use the tilde f I am writing a Spanish name, but I do have the symbol page and copy that wen I have to write foreign words. I have an English keyboard and cannot change it to a foreign one, so for me using the symbol page is the best way to go.

I am only familiar to the keys I always use. I really don't know much about all the symbols in a letter. But I do have some shortcuts I know in order for faster browsing and encoding in an application.

My keyboard has also the new symbol for Indian Currency but I still have no clue how to get it printed. I asked the vendors but they too have no better ideas. I have tries almost every possible combination - like the Shift, CTRL and also the ALT but that just wont print. I opened up the keyboard to see if that was just for the sake of it or was it supposed to be really functional, and it seems to be there for use and should function... if only the keyboards here came with the manuals

So you are never use this ^ symbol? I use it a lot, to make a smile eyes emoticons like this ^^ hahaha.. Or this v(^_^)v LOL!

Honestly I tell you, I do not know much. I just use the common but not all the keys. I wish to know and I am going to search now to know it. You have opened my eyes because I myselt do not know the acute,, Thanks for sharing and have a wonderful day ahead.

The first two top of keyboards are new to me because I don't ever use them with the lack of knowledge of them. It takes a lot of learning for me to get to know those F1 to F12. Besides, I don't use them at all. If I knew what they are used for, I might have the chance to use them. Take care, Asylum.

I used only the standard keys on my Laptop. If I cannot find the symbols in my keyboard, I will ask help my windows 2007 symbols I don't have any time to discover any symbols in my Laptop. What in my mind I concentrate only those keys that I used everyday.

i only know the letters and numbers and other symbols you mentioned because i use them in the documentation process. i do not really know my keyboard very well. i just have to be content of it for now as i do not see the need to know and be acquainted with them all.

I know the basics, but most of the non-letter/number keys do not get used. If it has to have a shift and is not to make a capital I have probably rarely used it, and probably then incorrectly. My mother works for a chemist and she has all sorts of chemistry equations that she types up on a regular basis. I am sure that she uses that special brackets.

Well, honestly speaking, I hardly use computer programs or databases (such as Excel or Access), which is why, I do not need to know in mind all the possible combinations to do with the keyboard. I was born already in the era of information technology, I typewriter,  I never used it. I'm pretty fast in the drafting of the texts, I would say far exceed the 100 beats per minute! It certainly is not easy for people typists on the machine, they fit in the mechanism of fast combinations to do with the keys (eg ctrl-c, ctrl-v, etc.).

Well, I am dependent only on what are available on the screen. I'm not familiar with some of the keys in the keyboard. But I can use them when there is an instruction flashed on the screen.

Well most of the keywords you mentioned are used by programmers. I mean computer prgrammer. If you learn all these computer programming stuff like C, Java, PHP then you will find that you are using most of those keys all time.

I'm not also very familiar with the other keys. I only use what is needed, but I think it's better if we know the other keys as I'm sure it has it's function. I just thought about it now, that I have been using the keyboard for a long time now but I haven't really paid attention to these other keys. Thanks for sharing!

hi asylum love your caveman. I just use the keys I need to mylot with and touch type and do pretty good as long as I do try not to type too fast.I learned to type in high school aon blank keys and just use the ones I learned and not fu ss about t he' others.Once you memorize the hand positions you are able to touch type well and do not need to look at t he key board at all. hap py mylotting.,