I responded E, S, N, L, and K. Also the space bar is worn. The E, S, and K are gone. This keyboard is 15 months old.
I don’t believe K is a very high-volume letter, but I do medical transcription and all of my expansions for drugs have a K at the beginning to distinguish them from others.
I do Wheel of Fortune proud…RSTLNE. C, I and O as well, the left Shift key, the right-hand side Enter key and the right-most third of the space bar, which I also use my thumb for.
W, A, S, D, E, F, J, K, L, R, T… I and O, but not so much. And the left shift and space bar. This is based on shine - I replaced a keyboard with several worn-away letters a few months ago. I know J and K are only from resting my fingers there before I start typing. There was actually a little dust on my right shift button.
I have no idea why, but apparently I’m hell on wheels for N and (to a lesser extent) M.
My WoW keyboard doesn’t show any wear. My old laptop’s N is completely gone. This laptop’s N is half-missing. The full-size keyboard I’m using right now has the N and M completely blurred out; the N didn’t last 48 hours. Oh, and I’m definitely a right-thumb spacer.
You forgot to ask about function keys. My F3, F4, and F10 are getting shiny compared to the others. Why yes, I’m in the mainframe a lot… I’m actually surprised F8 isn’t worn more as it also sees a lot of poking throughout the day.
“A” is worn down to just the left bar. The right side is almost gone and the cross-bar is gone. The bottom half of “S” is gone.
This is all on a roughly 15 year old IBM-branded keyboard.
You could grind 1/8" off those keytops and still read the letters as they’re double-shot molded, unlike pretty much everything else on the planet that’s just screen-printed onto the caps.
I entered all of the letters that were at least half worn away. There were eleven of them. Four are completely gone. V is nearly gone, and I’m guessing that’s only true because of Ctrl-V for pasting.
I’ll look again when I get home, but my work computer has almost completely lost E, N and M. The H key is at about 55%. Everything else is largely intact. I’ve had my work computer keyboard for probably about four years.
My hp Pavilion dv7-4065dx Entertainment Notebook with 17" screen is only 2 weeks old, along with MS Office 2010, so there’s no wear yet, except for the hp & Windows HELLp buttons (if there was one).