12 Facts About Arrow keys

Arrow keys are typically located at the bottom of the keyboard to the left side of the numeric keypad, usually arranged in an inverted-T layout but found in diamond shapes and linear shapes.

Arrow keys are commonly used for navigating around documents and for playing games.

Mouse keys is a feature that allows controlling a mouse cursor with arrow keys instead.

Arrow keys are used in many applications to do different things such as:.

These Arrow keys are most commonly used to control the player character's movement in computer games.

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Primarily, WASD is used to account for the fact that the arrow keys are not ergonomic to use in conjunction with a right-handed mouse.

Since the mouse was now used for looking, the ? and ? Arrow keys for looking would be redundant and thus were altered to become strafe Arrow keys.

All these keys fell somewhat out of favor after the release of the Apple IIe, which had a full set of arrow keys.

HJKL keys are still ubiquitous in newly developed Unix software even though today's keyboards have arrow keys.

ESDX Arrow keys were used in the WordStar word processor and related applications, in combination with the Control key.

Numpad or number pad Arrow keys are used quite often, but is used mostly in driving simulator games.

Layouts such as Shift Z Ctrl X, where ? Shift is up and Ctrl is down, allow all direction Arrow keys to be used in any combination, without the delay of changing finger position.