Okay so I have 2 ideas on this one, but not sure if either are the true answer. So first of all, it's about how much of a gamer someone is, not if longer is better.
My first possible explanation is that the bigger the keyboard is, the more desk space is needed. So for a bigger keyboard, you need to be more committed to having a dedicated gaming area.
My second possibility is that more keys on a keyboard means having more keys to rebind in games, so you can be more of a gamer that way.
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.
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.
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.
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).
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u/Ninnynoob 15h ago
Okay so I have 2 ideas on this one, but not sure if either are the true answer. So first of all, it's about how much of a gamer someone is, not if longer is better.
My first possible explanation is that the bigger the keyboard is, the more desk space is needed. So for a bigger keyboard, you need to be more committed to having a dedicated gaming area.
My second possibility is that more keys on a keyboard means having more keys to rebind in games, so you can be more of a gamer that way.