why aren't numpads generally to the left of keyboards?
>>106764977I've wondered about this for over a decade
>>106764977because people are generally right handed
>>106765078that's exactly why it should be leftside
>>106765078I grew up using a calculator with my left hand a pencil in my right hand. My left hand is tuned for the numpad
>>106765078yeah which is why they use their mouse with that hand
My late brother was left-handed, and he never used the numpad on his laptop. I have bought myself a mini-keyboard to make use of `keyd` but I'm all out of ideas as of what to do with it.
notice how there's two enter buttons in close proximity rather than having an enter button on the left and right like ctrl
>>106765078so you understand how silly it is to take my hand off the mouse to use the numpad
>>106764977>>106765067>>106765091It's because keyboards are much older than mice.For consumer PCs, most people didn't even have a mice until the 80s. It was just the keyboard for a long time. So it made sense to have the numpad on the right as most people are right handed. Nothing is stopping you from making a keyboard with a lefthanded numpad, but numpads are already niche as fuck and heavy numpad users are normally heavy keyboard users as well and don't really on the mouse for their work flow either, making the right handed numpad also optimal for them as well.
>>106765161>So it made sense to have the numpad on the right as most people are right handed. No it didn't
>>106765161even if still seems weird because the direction keys are also on the right
>>106765179They're also built into the number pad with the unlock you tard
>>106764977I don't have this problem
>>106764977Because when they make them on the left people don't buy them as much
>>106764977Southpaw boards exist. But are marked up because rightoids hate lefties.
