Facts about WhatPulse
Discover fascinating insights and statistics about how WhatPulse users around the world interact with their computers. These facts are generated from real data collected by our community.
Keyboard & Mouse Facts
Keyboard and mouse usage statistics
WhatPulse users have typed enough keys to destroy 17,765 mechanical keyboards.
WhatPulse users have typed the equivalent of 6,344,662,423 tweets!
A top-rated gaming mouse has an average 20-million click life span. WhatPulse users have clicked enough to destroy 23,637 gaming mice.
On average, Linux users type about 3.56% more than Windows users.
On average, Windows users click about 43.80% more than Linux users.
WhatPulse has counted 888,207,636,723 total keys. If you stack an average keyboard key size for that amount, we've gone to the Moon for 35.815 times.
We've counted a whopping 888,207,636,723 keystrokes. If you stack an average keyboard key size for that amount, we've gone to the Mars for 0.061 times.
Our users have clicked enough times to join all the communities on Reddit 3,636,439 times over.
With the average online article consisting of 1,500 words, our users could have typed over 592.169 million of them.
The average WhatPulse user types 733 keys per day.
The average WhatPulse user clicks their mouse 385 times per day.
WhatPulse users have typed the equivalent of the entire text of the Harry Potter series over 163,859 times.
WhatPulse users have collectively moved their mice a total distance of 5,186,925 miles. That's enough to circle the Earth 208.30 times at the equator!
Network Facts
Internet and network activity
Our users have downloaded enough data to fill over 81,867,383 DVDs!
It would take a 56k dial-up modem about 2,735,082 years to transfer the amount of data that WhatPulse users have downloaded/uploaded.
It would take a Google Fiber (1Gbit) Internet connection 150 years to transfer the amount of data that WhatPulse users have consumed.
WhatPulse users have downloaded 366.91PB and uploaded 182.59PB in total. This is just ridonculous.
The average WhatPulse user downloads 11.30GB of data per month.
WhatPulse users have downloaded the same amount of data as 96,194,202 HD movies.
WhatPulse users have downloaded 366.95PB in total. That's enough to stream 112,574,700,575 songs on Spotify.
Uptime Facts
Computer uptime and usage patterns
Combined, WhatPulse users have used their computers for nearly 100,522 years!
Combined, WhatPulse users use enough electricity daily to power 0.77 villages for a week.
Windows users have the most average uptime, followed by Linux users and Mac users have the least average uptime.
Even when combining all our uptime together, we're only 0.002010% on our way to the Andromeda Galaxy.
In the past week, WhatPulse users have spent a total of 772,656 hours on their computers. That's equivalent to over 88 years of non-stop usage!
Application Facts
Software and application usage data
WhatPulse users have used over 1,033,828 unique applications.
Out of all the applications our client has seen, Google Chrome has the most different versions: 7,014!
In the last week, Google Chrome was the most used application, followed by Firefox.
The average WhatPulse user uploads 4.91GB of data per month.
Website Facts
Website and online activity stats
A Pulse is sent to the WhatPulse website about every 2.07 seconds. That's about 41,718 pulses daily.
17,488 people have teamed up in 3,389 teams and are fighting injustice together! (or just combining their stats, who knows)
The most popular day for pulsing is Monday The least popular day is Saturday.
Hardware Facts
Hardware and system information
A single monitor setup is the most popular (69.04%), followed by 2 monitors (25.81%). Only 5.15% have 3 monitors or more. The record is at 9 monitors.
1 out of every 34 WhatPulsers has 32GB or more of RAM in their system.
77.22% of Pulsers use Intel processors compared to 20.81% using AMD. Intel's dominating there.
Most users run Windows (89.09%), but Pulsers are 1.92% more likely to use Mac OS than the general population.
The MacBook Pro is the most popular amongst Apple computers.
The average amount of RAM in WhatPulse user's systems is 26.75GB
Most people (48.8%) use a resolution of 1920x1080. The highest resolution we've recorded is 11520x6480. Buzzinga!
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