Keys Per Second

If you play osu! or other rhythm games, keeping track of your statistics can help you assess your performance and improve it. However, you need a third-party utility to capture keyboard activity, and these programs can prove very helpful for streamers as well.

Keys Per Second is a portable, open-source application that measures key presses per second, displays your average, maximum and current KPS and generates a real-time graph. It is fully configurable and quite easy to set up.

Once you have launched the program, you need to specify which keys should be monitored. You can select as many as you like, depending on your key bindings and the game you are playing.

Next, you can choose exactly which values should be shown on the screen. The application can display the current, average and maximum KPS, total key presses and a graph that is updated in real-time.

Aside from the configuration options mentioned above, you can also change the default UI colors, set the update rate, increase the precision of the statistics and resize the main window.

What’s more, the default user interface layout is not fixed. You can alter the position of every UI element, which is something streamers, in particular, should appreciate.

You can access every setting and command by right-clicking the main window, but you can also take advantage of hotkeys to speed things up; these key combinations are, themselves, customizable.

After setting everything up, you should save your settings to a configuration file, which needs to be loaded whenever you launch the program. No data will be stored anywhere else on your PC, so this is a great utility to use on the go.

To sum up, Keys Per Second is a great application for both regular gamers and streamers, as it provides you with useful statistics and makes it easier for viewers to see what you are doing. It offers extensive customization options and does not need to be installed before use.