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> smaller minority that despises the numeric keypad and will never buy a laptop that includes one

I'm in this minority! Why don't people use the top-row numbers!?!?

Some programs like blender treat the top row numbers as totally different things (actually numbers vs camera movements) and for people typing a lot of numbers, the num pad is faster apparently.

I would prefer a keyboard with out the Top row of numbers. Those are pretty much useless.

So much so that I often use AHK to remap the top number row to be other functions.

Useless? Did you never learn how to touch type the numbers? Unless you do data entry the top row numbers are vastly quicker to get to than the number pad. You just reach a finger out and tap instead of moving your whole hand to the number pad.

I am not in a full time development role anymore, but even when I was I never felt the need to drive my WPM numbers to the extreme.. So the fractions of a second it may save was not a consideration.

I find the 10-key to be more accurate and faster for me. My muscle memory is numbers are entered with my right hand...

You find the entire row useless? Do you set up a special modifier for those symbols, or what?

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