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[Lionel Richie]

I mean, think about it! www for navigation, WASD means W is going forward which is the most used direction you will use in any game, when your team wins it means you can shitpost about a W and surely many other cases I'm forgetting. When did W become the most used letter in our world and where were you when you first realized it?

 

[NotMyProblemAnymoreCunt]

 

[TheUnicornGuy]

Not for me. I never type www anymore, it's pretty much never needed, and I'm left handed so it's cursor keys all day. Mine would probably be P, for reasons.

 

[e0n]

I think it's 'c' for being a popular consonant, also in .com.

 

[Grildon Tundy]

If it isn't "W", then it's its neighbor "E"--the most-used letter in the English language.

 

[Lionel Richie]

Always.

Not for me. I never type www anymore, it's pretty much never needed, and I'm left handed so it's cursor keys all day. Mine would probably be P, for reasons.

 

[ForAcademicPurposes]

Y A M E T T E K U D A S A I.

 

[Revolutionary]

I would think it's actually Spacebar but if we're talking strictly letters then maybe

 

[Soodanim]

My first guess would be E, most common of the vowels and standard interaction button in games.

Outside of the OP, you're not really going to see W used frequently outside of the W question words (who what when where why how which).

Truth be told it doesn't look like E is even nearly the most common letter in this post, so I might be anecdotally proving myself wrong.

 

[sono]

The most common letter in the English language, based on frequency analyses of both written texts and general usage that extends to everyday communication (including spoken, via transcribed speech), is "e". This holds across various corpora, such as dictionaries, books, articles, and sampled conversations, where "e" typically appears in about 11-12.5% of all letters.

While some minor variations exist between formal written English and casual spoken English (e.g., spoken language may slightly favor certain vowels or consonants due to common words like "I," "the," or "and"), studies on transcribed speech show the overall rankings remain consistent, with "e" still leading.

(Grok)

 

[nush]

My first guess would be E, most common of the vowels and standard interaction button in games.

Outside of the OP, you're not really going to see W used frequently outside of the W question words (who what when where why how which).

Truth be told it doesn't look like E is even nearly the most common letter in this post, so I might be anecdotally proving myself wrong.

I bet it's actually the space bar.

 

[Soodanim]

I bet it's actually the space bar.

Mine is backspace

 

[cormack12]

From my experience playing games it is 'g'

Gg
Gay
Faggot

Thanks for attending my ted talk.

No one is typing www. Unless they are old. And gay. We google for what we want and then click the link (e.g. Google bbc).

 

[NeoIkaruGAF]

Y A M E T T E K U D A S A I.

This is why we can't have nice things.

In my language the W is used only for foreign words. It literally doesn't exist in what was taught as "the Italian alphabet" until a couple decades ago.
Judging by the glossiness of the keys on my keyboard, one half of the spacebar is by far the most pressed one.

 

[winjer]

P for Porn.

 

[ForAcademicPurposes]

P for Porn.

Depends on your recently visited corn site.

 

[shamroxor]

 

[StueyDuck]

Its almost definitely a vowel, probably "a" or "i"... majority of people using keyboards will be typing text, not playing games

 

[CGNoire]

Its "E".

 

[Doczu]

 

[Trilobit]

I don't much care about playing on PC as keyboard and mouse most often lack forcefeedback or any sensational feedback like console controllers do. It feels paltry and I have no idea why people still play with peripherals meant for Excel and office software.

So no, w is not the most used letter for me.

 

[Ikutachi]

 

[RoboFu]

Why would you want to wonder about what key would be writ with the most in the world?

Anyway probably not

 

[Riker Laforge]

It's a good argument, and it would be cool to see metrics. But I think it mainly only applies to gamer and likely it will be something more boring like esc, A, or shift.

 

[Syphon Filter]

Y A M E T T E K U D A S A I.

 

[Robot Carnival]

for me, the keys that got worn out much more than the rest are definitely the WASD keys. but oddly enough out of all my current keyboard's keys D was the one that broke first. might be because I have a bad habit of pulling it back to adjust the keyboard's position from time to time. so that kinda worn out the insert part of the keycab.

 

[ReBurn]

There are people who still use www. when browsing the web?

 

[jason10mm]

Why would you wonder why W was wonderfully widely worked with words?

 

[Lionel Richie]

I would think it's actually Spacebar but if we're talking strictly letters then maybe

Good point about the spacebar. I guess backspace and enter would also see some heavy use.

There are people who still use www. when browsing the web?

The internet is like 50% bots, 30% boomers. And boomers absolutely use www.

 

[kevboard]

I think the most worn down keys on my keyboard are actually A and S.
they are part of the WASD block, but also are among the top 5~6 most used letters in both English and German

 

[Three]

Official ranking is

1) spacebar
2) e
3) backspace

I guess too many mistakes are made or it's because we spam it when getting rid of those paragraphs.