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  • many enthusiast keyboards are “tenkeyless” precisely because the numpad is too far from the home row to be actually useful when you get efficient typing patterns worked out

    i have a tenkeyless and use programmers dvorak (which is honestly imo pretty brain dead for its use of the num row and still is “fine” for numbers): you get used to it very quickly, and typing numbers with the numpad as an efficiency improvement is more than made up for by using both hands on the num row, and by it being far closer to the home row


  • actually one of my grandparents was a typist at an accounting firm, and apparently num row is far more efficient for numbers in generally because you use 10 fingers and your thumbs are close to your “new home row” (aka the number row while you’re typing numbers), and whilst possible you’d never use both hands in the num pad because it’d be awkward and probably damaging to your wrists, and you’re rarely typing just numbers so having the num row closer to the home row is part of the efficiency calculation

    … if we’re being pedantic, which we absolutely are