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Numpad forces you to move the more important piece of input equipment - mouse - further away. And with a properly aligned keyboard (none pictured in the article) it's better to have numpad near your right hand home row keys anyway to use with a modifier. Even more so for the cursor keys - instead of having to move your wrist back&forth you could just use the home row keys for that

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They should put the numpad on the left side then, people can learn to hit numbers with left hand, I used to do this with a dedicated usb numpad

But why would you need to relearn that when you can continue to use your right hand in a better position???

Considering most of the typing you do is with your left hand, I would think that would really decrease the efficiency of your typing.

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