My Unhealthy Relationship with Keyboards ⌨

Re:My Unhealthy Relationship with Keyboards ⌨ by crazygringo on Wednesday September 27, 2023 @04:34PM (#37680895)

> If it lives on a desk, why not splash out the small amount extra to make number entry much easier.

Because it's bad ergonomics, if you're right-handed. It puts the mouse too far to the right.

And I've been using computers for decades but can't recall a single time I ever did numeric "data entry".

That just feels like a relic of when office workers were entering amounts from stacks of printed invoices by hand.

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Re:My Unhealthy Relationship with Keyboards ⌨ by serial_dev on Wednesday September 27, 2023 @05:34PM (#37681664)

Exactly.

I try to use my keyboard whenever possible, but sometimes reaching to my mouse is just easier. Moving my hand 5 inches is already bad, but having to move it 10-15 inches every time I want to use the mouse is terrible.

And all for what? For having to enter a phone number or credit card number once a month into some form? The tradeoff is not worth it for most people.

As a programmer, I don't need a numpad very often, having long strings of numbers are not very common in my field. Sure, sometimes I need to write numbers, but they are one or two character long, and having them above the keys is better experience as I don't need to move my hand so far.

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Re:My Unhealthy Relationship with Keyboards ⌨ by Clamchop on Wednesday September 27, 2023 @06:13PM (#37682125)

There are compact designs that I find reasonable, though I'm sure not everyone will agree, which is fine! I'm using a Leopold fc-980m right now. It and it's variants are my favorite layout that I've used so far.

But I do use my tenkey pretty often and want it around.

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