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How do you get used to small form factors? (sh.itjust.works)
submitted 1 year ago by to c/mechanicalkeyboards@lemmy.ml
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I do really think the smaller keyboards are cool, and i like that they wouldn't run into my mouse as much. But all my life I've had a numpad. I tried a keyboard without a numpad and lasted about 5 minutes before raging. How did you guys get used to it? Maybe I just need to get better at "top row numbering".

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[–] 1 point 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I use a blank 75% keyboard.

For the numbers, I use F and J as points of reference to find whatever number I need. This is enough for a majority of cases, and I haven't been using a numpad for most things in the first place.

4 and 5 above F, 6 and 7 above J, 0 is 3rd from the right, 1 and 2 are two leftmost. The rest are handled by the process of elimination.

But when I need to fill out spreadsheets worth of data, I just use a Bluetooth numpad that also doubles as a calculator. For that purpose, it's just too convenient. And no, QMK layers didn't help in my case. It would help if I used ortholinear keyboard, however.

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