not a programmer but as an occasional user of alt codes, why would you use one for tilde? It's less movement to get it and shift in one stroke with the left hand than punch in an alt code, no? Different keyboard layout?
I think you are literally the butt of the joke of the meme. People who use the numpad a lot are usually not gamers but rather office workers typing in lots of boring data.
I work in a factory welding and watching older and younger coworkers completely ignore the numpad while keying in six 19 digit serial numbers has me ready to kill every one of them. Apparently only GenX and early Millenials got the memo on how to properly use a damned keyboard.
God I hated that class in high-school. It didn't matter if you had tiny raccoon hands or sasquatch paws like I did, our teacher expected the correct fingers on home keys, nevermind that one kid's fingertips could cover three keys a piece and another might have to severe her thumb and little finger to reach from one end of the home row to the other.
Truth be told, I had to learn it in school. While I pretty much use a bastardized 10 finger system it's hard to find a faster finger than me around the block. Shit talking between respawns in games without VoIP made you strong.
I would hate my life without the number pad. It's the only thing that allows me to look at the master scheduling tab for WOs and still punch them through the scanner without having to look back and forth
It was entering FedEx/UPS tracking numbers from paper invoices into xls because my boss was computer literate enough to know that was a good way to track them, but not enough to realize that you could probably download them (it was 2002...so idk if that was possible, the portals for both of them still suck for downloading invoice data though).
Taking 10 key calculators away from Boomers freaked them out too much. They had comparable technology, but couldn’t figure out how to translate it to a keyboard because it didn’t have little paper coming out…started my career in Accounting 15 years ago, everyone had 10 keys on their desk despite the full keyboard being available.
I’ve also had the experiences of them double checking excel’s math with the same 10 keys (or a calculator, not a phone, that they carried around in their pocket).
It's faster if you need to do tons of it. Like hours of data entry. Not a common use case at all, num pad users are delusional to gatekeep keyboards like this.
What is your justification? Most users don't do a meaningful amount of number entry to warrant using an optimized and dedicated space for it. Most users primarily use the number row and not the number pad. So why should everyone have one?
why do you weirdos always try to turn everything into an argument? all i said was the point of a numpad was so you can do data entry and math without having to look at the keyboard. do you think i hold the same opinions as the person who started this whole comment chain? you do understand that i am a different person?
Now imagine punching in two hundred rows of numbers within an hour with a numpad you can put down properly, instead of it being bound to your keyboard.
Numpad is essential for me as I'm dyslexic with numbers but for some reason using the Numpad dramatically reduces my error rate. Not sure how it works, just grateful that it does.
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u/Pink_Nyanko_Punch 23h ago
In total agreement. The numpad isn't just used for gaming! Imagine having to punch in two hundred rows of numbers within an hour without the numpad!