A keyboard statistics logger that respects your privacy and is configurable to any keyboard in any language.

Top features

• No communication with external servers - your typing is saved only on your computer
• Configurable keyboard layout (just edit a json-file to customize language, placement of keys etc)
  • Support for any language, not just US keyboards (configuration for US and DK is shipped with the release)
  • Support for any keyboard layout (configuration for QWERTY, DVORAK, TenKeyless is shipped with the release)
• Showing the ratio between producing text and deleting text (productive ratio)
• Showing the ratio between editing and navigating text (navigation ratio)
• Tracking meta-keys such as ALT, ALTgr, Control, Windows, and Menu

Just download and extract the zip file and run KeyboordUsage.exe

You can also make the program start whenever windows starts. See eg http://tunecomp.net/add-app-to-startup/

My motivation for creating this program was that I wanted to remap certain keys of my keyboard, but I was unsure what keys I am using the most or what "functionality" - ie. am I naviagting more than I'm typing? Am I excessively using the del/backspace? and so forth. Before remapping any keys I wanted that sorted out.

The application is very open to new keyboard key configurations (e.g. numeric keypad, AZERTY, COLEMAK, ...). Also for non-programmers!

All you need to do is to go to the folder with the KeyboordUsage.exe from here dig into the folder Configuration/Keyboard (browse the .json at https://github.com/kbilsted/KeyboordUsage/tree/master/code/Configuration/Keyboard). Make a copy of any of the .json files and start editing. After editing simply restart the application and your new configuration has been picked up.

If you make something great please share by making a pull request or opening an issue.

You are more than welcome to contribute. Just open an issue and we'll discuss your ideas from there. There are plenty of fun features yet to implement ;-)

I blog at http://http://firstclassthoughts.co.uk/ and have a ton of open source repositories at http://github.com/kbilsted/