# Keyboard Heatmap

> Free keyboard heatmap tool. Track key frequency live, visualise your hottest keys, and export a PNG heatmap in your browser. Works offline.

- **Category:** Gaming
- **URL:** https://www.teafun.cyou/tools/keyboard-heatmap/
- **Privacy:** Runs entirely in your browser — no uploads, no account, no tracking.
- **Also known as:** keystroke heatmap, keyboard analytics, typing heatmap, keyboard layout, key tracker
- **Related tools:** [Typing Speed Test](https://www.teafun.cyou/tools/typing/), [Spacebar Counter](https://www.teafun.cyou/tools/spacebar/)
- **Tags:** Gaming, Input, Keyboard

## About

Track your most-used keys in real time, build a heatmap from actual typing, and export the result as a PNG.

## How to Use the Keyboard Heatmap

Open the tool, click Start, and type for 2-5 minutes in your normal style (technical docs, emails, code — pick the content you actually type). The heatmap colors each key from cold (rarely pressed) to hot (most pressed); finger-load percentages appear on each finger of the on-screen hand graphic. Switch layout: QWERTY (default), Colemak, Dvorak, AZERTY, QWERTZ — the heatmap re-projects your typed letters onto the new layout so you can see exactly how much your fingers WOULD have moved if you typed those same characters on Colemak vs QWERTY. The **statistics panel** shows total keys typed, average WPM (with a 60-second moving average), top-10 most-used keys, top-5 same-finger bigrams (most-painful patterns), and total **estimated finger distance** in inches/cm (a fast typist's fingers can travel a surprising distance over a year on QWERTY, and lower-movement layouts like Colemak noticeably reduce it).

## Why Keyboard Usage Patterns Matter

Heavy typists develop strain on the QWERTY pinky finger because A is the left-pinky home and most function keys (Tab, Caps Lock, Shift, Ctrl) live there too. Software engineers, copywriters, journalists, and customer-support agents who type 5,000-15,000 keystrokes/day are at elevated risk of repetitive strain injury (RSI), DeQuervain's tenosynovitis, and carpal tunnel syndrome. The heatmap surfaces patterns the typist cannot feel: pinky overload (the weakest finger carrying a disproportionate share of the work on QWERTY while the stronger ring and middle fingers do less), wrist-side deviation when reaching for `;` or `Z`, and finger-distance metrics that translate fatigue into measurable inches. Switching to Colemak or Dvorak is a 2-4 week productivity cost (typing speed drops to 20 WPM then climbs back over 4-8 weeks) — the heatmap before/after lets you measure whether the long-term wrist-health payoff is worth it. Many ergonomic keyboards (Kinesis Advantage, ZSA Moonlander, Ergodox EZ) ship blank or default to Colemak.

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## FAQ

### Does this log what I typed?

No. TeaFun only counts supported physical keys on this page. It does not upload text or save a transcript.

### Why do some keys not light up?

This view tracks the main typing layout shown on screen. Browser shortcuts, media keys, or unsupported layouts may not appear.

### What is this useful for?

It helps you spot typing habits, key wear patterns, and control clusters for games, shortcuts, or ergonomics.