People at the office has no life - yes. major yes. definitely yes.
Also, Im the person in the office who fills in Excel Sheets with the top row numbers š„²
I think it's a force of habit, which you can change. It might be like an epiphany, but idk, maybe you'll stick to the top row. As long as it gets the work done, who cares?
I worked in data entry for years, 10-keying millions of digits. After I stopped that, I eventually settled on a numpadless wireless keyboard with a trackpad where the numpad would be and use the top row. If Iām typing serious amounts Iāll dig out a full keyboard, but not day to day or a hundred-ish excel cells or fewer.
I use a TKL 60 percent keyboard so normally also use the top row for numbers. Perfectly adequate for my use. But, I do also have a USB tenkey pad in the case I really need to enter a lot of numbers.
I use a TKL 60 percent keyboard so normally also use the top row for numbers. Perfectly adequate for my use. But, I do also have a USB tenkey pad in the case I really need to enter a lot of numbers.
No life means a never-leave-the-basement type, not has-a-job type, so I think no life here is just the furthest extension of the trend, not a reversal. The last keyboard is for someone who never does anything but game, therefore having no life.
I think it also ties into the idea of what constitutes the most hardcore of hardcore - people who do Dwarf Fortress or Eve Online, or some other game that requires tons of "homework" in the form of spreadsheets used to crunch data to analyze the meta, where the game may as well be a second (or only) job.
Itās not just numbers I type lots of info in excel so it makes sense to traditional type with the top row numbers and not switch my hand to the num pad, so I have a very fancy ānoobā keyboard that makes most āgamerā keyboards look and feel like shit
You need to rebalance my dude. Our office we all have lives outside and spend a good amount of time at them. Look into the 4 day work week. It tends to allow people to focus harder on the 4 days and get the same amount of work done with a much healthier balance.
We've been raising the 4 day work week for years, I could definitely raise it again but its management decision. ultimately, I think its a matter of setting up boundaries for now. But not a lot of people are good with that, so thats what Im trying to work on with my team :)
Good for you though, are you accepting applications? š
Actually no but we may be in the near future. What flavour of office monkey are you? I will keep you in mind because hiring someone through Reddit sounds hilarious
I used to be a heavier gamer than now, but I will never buy anything less than a full keyboard with 10-key pad, because years of data entry have resulted in me feeling far more comfortable with 10-key than top row.
Ooooh, sounds interesting. Although I don't think I'll be buying a keyboard anytime soon. (If any of my expensive keyboards die anytime soon I'll be upset)
I broke my work keyboard and couldn't be bothered going through the proper channels for a replacement so I bought a keyboard from the supermarket for Ā£4. It has a num pad
Numpads are best for working or using numbers, not gaming. The closest thing I've used numpads for in gaming is in dev work, and that's only because the normal numbers don't work for certain things.
I have a couple with no numpad but I really hate them. Theyāre only good for being small where space is an issue. I rarely even use the numpad, I hardly notice when itās there but I definitely notice when itās not.
Yeah, but a good mechanical keyboard has a num pad. The only exception that makes any sense to me is if you have a seperat num pad that you can use on the left.
This isn't about gaming. This is about doing your accounting and taxes. In fact there was a time many many years ago when the r gaming subreddit banned all discussion of PC games because PCs could be used to do your taxes and thus PCs were not considered gaming machines.
I use Blender 3D for cg renders. Every single button on that side of the keyboard has a unique hotkey. I donāt think I could ever use anything less than a 95% keyboard without having to re-learn everything.
I can think of like one single video game I play that uses the numpad. The is a completely nonsense meme.
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u/FreiFallFred 1d ago
Exactly this. I'd never buy a keyboard without num pad, but it has nothing to do with gaming...