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Common Keyboard Shortcuts

Keyboard shortcuts are handy for easy navigation

Keyboard shortcuts are good! First they help you navigate whatever tool or service you're using easily. Secondly, you can use your keyboard in place of your mouse when your mouse is broken or out of battery (if it's wireless).

It's important to know as many keyboard shortcuts as possible; especially for the apps, tools and services you use often. They will come in handy. But since it's not easy to memorize all the keyboard shortcuts you need, here is a list of the most common shortcuts you might need.

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You can save this page as a bookmark for future reference. This list has links to the most common keyboard shortcut lists you may need. I'll be adding to this list more bookmarks over time.

Keyboard Shortcuts

Netflix Keyboard shortcuts will help you play, pause, adjust volume among other common things you might want to do when watching Netflix on your computer. Tey work on both Windows and Mac.

Copy and Paste Keyboard shortcuts These are probably the most used and sort after keyboard shortcuts. They are actually a split second faster than the mouse process. Here is a well explained article on copying and pasting using the keyboard on both Windows and Mac.

Chrome Extensions Keyboard Shortcuts: These are probably not common. But every chrome extension allows you to configure their own keyboard shortcuts that you can use to command the extension without necessarily reaching for it with your mouse.

Custom windows Shortcuts: These are keyboard shortcuts that you can create in your Windows computer to launch certain programs.

VLC Keyboard Shortcuts: VLC media player is my favorite media player on windows. Hands down! Here are keyboard shortcuts that will help you navigate VLC easily.

Screenshot Shortcuts for windows 10: There re a bunch of keyboard shortcuts that help you take screenshots for every operating system for computers. In this video, you'll learn how to screenshot on windows 10 using the keys on your computer keyboard.