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Caps Lock key
Raised as a usability problem by 11 people on Hacker News over 13 years (2013–2025), in 10 threads.
No issue was raised by at least 3 people in 3 threads this year.
No issue was raised by at least 3 people in 3 threads in the last 5 years.
- 1Caps Lock often turns on by accidentUnreviewed
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Caps Lock often turns on by accidentUnreviewed
20132026- Caps Lock gets enabled by accident on other people's computers2025-11-04
- Caps Lock is pressed accidentally, with minor impact on typing2020-05-11
- Oversized Caps Lock key is an awkward, poorly chosen layout2019-11-13
Unreviewed issues were grouped by machine: Claude Haiku labelled each comment as a usability complaint, named what it's about and summed up the problem in a line, and a small model grouped similar problems. Nobody has checked them by hand. Expect mistakes.
The newest 11 complaints
- Caps Lock gets enabled by accident on other people's computers2025-11-04
- Input lag of about a second before Caps Lock-as-Ctrl registers2021-12-30
- Caps Lock is pressed accidentally, with minor impact on typing2020-05-11
- Oversized Caps Lock key is an awkward, poorly chosen layout2019-11-13
- Caps Lock is easy to hit by accident, so the user ends up typing in caps on other computers2017-09-14
- Easy to leave on, causing wrong capitalization such as in passwords2017-05-23
- Coworker toggles Caps Lock for single capitals, so it often gets left on by accident2015-10-03
- Caps lock is often engaged by accident2014-09-10
- Caps Lock has a delay that punishes quick presses, making it unusable for switching case2014-01-02
- Using Caps Lock as a control key made it hard to reach the right and left Control keys2013-03-30
- Users press it repeatedly because it gives no visible sign it has toggled2013-03-30