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You may have already noticed this on Eevee's site; Eevee's Furry Army of Doom is the unofficial WhatPulse team for both The Cave of Dragonflies Forums and Veekun.

Think about how much you use the computer. Quite a bit, right? Now think about how many times you pressed a key on your keyboard or clicked on something with your mouse. The number is pretty hard to determine. That's where WhatPulse comes in: all of your keystrokes and clicks will help our team. But how does it work?

Here's what What is WhatPulse? has to say:
Sure we have a fancy website, loads of stats and lotsa users, but many people still wonder what WhatPulse exactly is. This page tries to explain a bit more about what it is, a simple keys, clicks and mouse usage counter.

The purpose of WhatPulse is simply to collect statistics about your computer behavior. Some people (Like me) use it to determine how long they've worked on something, like a programming project, a school essay, chatting by all means.

WhatPulse opens a so-called "keyhook" when it's booted, which listens to incoming Windows messages about the keyboard, the keyhook sends these messages to the program itself, and the program first determines if the key pressed is a proper key (Every standard keyboards' keys are counted) and then simply does PreviousKeyCount + 1.

Pulsing: When you "pulse", you're actually sending your keycounts in the program to the server along with other information about your Account, so the server can decide where to put the keycount. If the pulse goes according to plan, the server sends back an "OK", and the client's keycount is reset to 0 (zero), and your previous keys are added to your profile in the server database! :)

And for all you people who are thinking "oeh mi god a keylogger, no way!", well, exactly, No way. WhatPulse is not and never will be any sort of keylogger, it does not collect the keys you type, but only how many keys you type. (see our Privacy Policy)
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If you have any questions, please post them. We'd love to have you on the team! We've actually been lingering around the hundredth place lately, but with a little more participation we could definitely make it into the double digit rankings. :)
 
I love how I'm still fairly high up despite not having pulsed since switching to linux
EDIT: I guess this also means none of my typesex is going towards that count :( I wanted to see "haha I wonder if I have an extra bunch of keys those days"
 
If I'm "pulsing" my keystrokes/mouse clicks, is it going to slow down my computer's performance and/or internet connection? :3
 
It'll slow it down for a moment but only when it's actually sending it to the server. Just set it to pulse fairly rarely and disable pulsing if you're playing an FPS or something.
 
Noooo!

For some reason, WhatPulse doesn't work now that I've reinstalled my OS. >__< Gahhh, I only just got onto the first page as well. I guess you'll beat me now, Dewgong...
 
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