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Does anyone have a list of the most commonly pressed keys on an English QWERTY keyboard?

A: 

Depends on the users of your intended solution.

Depending on that you could take various texts like:

  • older novels,
  • modern novels,
  • newspapers,
  • magazines,
  • modern slang documents etc etc.

And count letters.

Or combine all of them and get a conglomerate number. Add to these

  • SPACE,
  • ENTER,
  • SHIFT and
  • BackSpace.

Depending on the target platform you should add some more like LEFT, RIGHT, UP and DOWN.

Robert Koritnik
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It might be better to look for an analysis of characters used in the english language, ie a letter frequency analysis. See this wikipedia article I guess it would depend how much typing the average keyboard user does as to whether the frequency analysis would be a good indication of actual keypresses.

This will not include control keys like enter, and backspace though. Not sure where you would find that information.

aj.esler