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These keys are known as the home row.

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Check why your keyboard has a ridge on F and J letters

By India Today Web Desk: Your keyboard sure does contain a lot of letters, punctuations, signs, symbols and what not. But have you ever noticed something different with 'F' and 'J' keys?

Not only your computer keyboard but your keypad button on some of the mobile phone screens also have something unique on Number 5. If you do, you must have thought about the bump on these keys and have questioned the manufacturer about this unusual thing.

Were these keys favorite to him? The answer to this suggests that it is not a product defect as some of you might think, but it is a ridge that remains on the same keys in every keyboard. These keys are known as the home row.

Positioning your fingers well on the keyboard

According to the report published on the Interesting Facts and Information (IFAI) portal in April 2016, these ridges are to help us position our fingers correctly so that we are able to type without looking at the keyboard. It also improves our typing speed if we balance our hands correctly using these ridges and this makes easier to use the keyboard.

Who invented these ridges?

These ridges in the keyboard were invented by June E Botich in the year 2002. Almost all the modern keyboard models now come with this feature after the invention.

These keys are referred to as the home row

How to type on a keyboard with the help of F and J? Place the index fingers of your left and right hands over the ‘F’ and ‘J’ keys respectively. With your index fingers on the two ridged keys your left-hand covers A, S, D, and F. The right side covers J, K, L, and colon and both the thumbs should rest on the space bar.

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