Japan is considered one of the most advanced nations. However, according to a survey, technology performs surprisingly poorly.
Japan is among the most advanced and innovative countries in the world. Depending on the ranking, Japan always ranks within the top 10. In 2019, it was in 9th place, just ahead of France and directly behind the USA (via bdae.com).
From a technological perspective, it may be surprising that in a survey of Japanese students, certain keyboard shortcuts performed particularly poorly. At least many students stated in a survey that they do not know what Ctrl + C is used for.
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About 40% of respondents do not know what Ctrl + C is used for
Where do the evaluations come from? Menter, a company of White Inc. Japan, conducted a survey in Japan to find out how familiar students in the country are with some of the most popular keyboard shortcuts.
In total, a group of 519 students was surveyed, of which 5.8% reported that they did not own a laptop or desktop computer. This is reported by our colleagues from Techspot.com. Therefore, this survey does not necessarily represent the entire Japanese population, which counts more than 125 million individuals.
How did the shortcuts perform? The most popular combinations performed surprisingly poorly:
- For the shortcut Ctrl + C, only 62.6% knew it is used for copying data.
- Only 59.2% of students knew that Ctrl + V is used for pasting the copied data.
- Even worse was Ctrl + Z: only 30.6% of participants reported knowing and intentionally using this combination.
How do other shortcuts perform? Not much better. Ctrl + X (Cut), Ctrl + S (Save), Ctrl + A (Select All), and Ctrl + P (Print) were known to around 27% of respondents.
The reasons for the poor performance of the shortcuts are not known. According to statistics, the PC market in Japan has been declining for several years, and more and more people are using mobile devices (via similarweb.com). And on mobile or tablet, these keyboard shortcuts are hardly used.
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