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The BSBL Infinite Keystroke Database

Top 10 Easiest and Hardest keys to type accurately. Classified and ranked in 14 tables with average user accuracy % for each key.

(all languages combined except Greek and Russian)

The data on this page is collected from all the following Better Skills Better Life products combined:-

  • All Typing Tests
  • All Competitions
  • Classic Typing Tutor
  • Classic Typing Tutor with Dictate
  • Dual Learning

…in all of the following languages combined:-

American English, Catalan, Danish, Dutch, English, Finnish, French, German, Italian, Brazilian Portuguese, Spanish, Swedish

The key-characters are categorised as Overall (Best or Worst irrespective of any other categorisation), lower case alphabetic, lower case accented, upper case alphabetical, upper case accented, non-alphabetical, number

Below are 14 tables containing Top 10 ‘Best and Worst’ keys

(Click on the links below to go to the table)

  1. Top 10 Best/Easiest Keys Overall
  2. Top 10 Worst/Hardest Keys Overall
  3. Best 10 performing Lower case Alphabetic keys
  4. Worst 10 performing Lower case Alphabetic keys
  5. Best 10 performing Lower case Accented keys
  6. Worst 10 performing Lower case Accented keys
  7. Best 10 performing Upper case Alphabetic keys
  8. Worst 10 performing Upper case Alphabetic keys
  9. Best 10 performing Upper case Accented keys
  10. Worst 10 performing Upper case Accented keys
  11. Best 10 performing Non-Alphabetical keys
  12. Worst 10 performing Non-Alphabetical keys
  13. Best 10 performing Number keys
  14. Worst 10 performing Number keys

To see the language specific analyses of the above plus statistics for Greek and Russian characters too, go to Page 8. Note that you need to be a Registered User or Subscriber to view all of the data so click here to Register first.

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Top 10 Easiest Keys Overall

Ranking Key accuracy %
1 ú 100.00
2 ã 100.00
3 Space 97.77
4 ~ 96.87
5 o 96.22
6 e 95.98
7 n 95.98
8 i 95.82
9 l 95.81
10 a 95.52

Top 10 Hardest Keys Overall

Ranking Key accuracy %
1 ñ 4.95
2 â 6.90
3 ê 10.00
4 ï 12.50
5 ó 33.33
6 à 33.33
7 ç 33.33
8 á 34.78
9 ¿ 37.50
10 û 50.00
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Listed by the Category of the Keys

Best 10 performing Lower case Alphabetic keys are: 

Ranking Key accuracy %
1 o 96.22
2 n 95.98
3 e 95.98
4 i 95.82
5 l 95.81
6 a 95.52
7 h 95.41
8 t 95.33
9 p 95.28
10 u 95.28

Worst 10 performing Lower case Alphabetic keys are:

Ranking Key accuracy %
1 j 90.79
2 q 91.40
3 z 91.77
4 v 91.82
5 x 92.84
6 b 93.24
7 f 93.69
8 k 93.73
9 c 93.86
10 w 94.07
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Best 10 performing Lower case Accented keys are:  

Ranking Key accuracy %
1 ã 100.00
2 ú 100.00
3 é 81.30
4 ä 80.21
5 æ 77.33
6 ü 66.67
7 ö 65.84
8 è 61.54
9 í 60.00
10 ô 60.00

Worst 10 performing Lower case Accented keys are: 

Ranking Key accuracy %
1 ñ 4.95
2 â 6.90
3 ê 10.00
4 ï 12.50
5 à 33.33
6 ç 33.33
7 ó 33.33
8 á 34.78
9 û 50.00
10 ù 58.33
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Best 10 performing Upper case  Alphabetic keys are: 

Ranking Key accuracy %
1 N 94.37
2 P 94.35
3 M 93.53
4 R 93.07
5 T 92.94
6 E 92.83
7 X 92.66
8 Q 92.64
9 F 92.45
10 V 92.40

Worst 10 performing Upper case  Alphabetic keys are:

Ranking Key accuracy %
1 W 76.84
2 U 81.12
3 I 82.68
4 B 86.23
5 C 86.67
6 A 86.86
7 S 89.00
8 H 89.06
9 Y 89.55
10 K 90.16
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Best 10 performing Upper case  Accented keys are:  

Ranking Key accuracy %

Worst 10 performing Upper case  Accented keys are: 

Ranking Key accuracy %
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Best 10 performing Non-Alphabetical keys are:

Ranking Key accuracy %
1 Space 97.77
2 ~ 96.87
3 / 94.77
4 : 94.44
5 ' 92.62
6 * 92.57
7 - 91.65
8 ? 91.28
9 % 90.74
10 ! 90.53

Worst 10 performing Non-Alphabetical keys are:

Ranking Key accuracy %
1 ¿ 37.50
2 # 57.93
3 ( 63.93
4 \ 67.20
5 ; 68.01
6 > 76.62
7 @ 77.27
8 < 77.58
9 _ 78.57
10 £ 81.01
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Best 10 performing Number keys are:

Ranking Key accuracy %
1 2 95.52
2 0 95.31
3 9 95.14
4 3 95.06
5 7 95.04
6 1 93.88
7 5 93.06
8 6 92.79
9 8 90.93
10 4 89.02

Worst 10 performing Number keys are:

Ranking Key accuracy %
1 4 89.02
2 8 90.93
3 6 92.79
4 5 93.06
5 1 93.88
6 7 95.04
7 3 95.06
8 9 95.14
9 0 95.31
10 2 95.52
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To see the language specific analysis of the above go to Page 8 (if you are not yet registered this link will take you to our Free Registration page to register or sign in so that you will be able to view more data)