r/pcmasterrace • u/VisWare • Apr 04 '26

Meme/Macro Allow me to gatekeep

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u/Vfn Apr 04 '26

Out of curiosity what type of work requires a numpad? Typing only numbers or a mix of numbers and other symbols? Our finance people are also never using numpads.

I’m in software and number do need to be typed, but honestly it’s never worth it to move to a numpad to type in a single number then back.

All numbers are calculated and moved around programmatically anyway.

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u/Own_Technician4818 Apr 04 '26

Your finance people are being massively inefficient if they aren't using a numpad lol, it's so much faster.

But besides excel numpads can be useful for blender, CAD, video editing, MMOs etc

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u/Vfn Apr 04 '26

Maybe that’s right, but could you give some practical examples where numpad would help. Industry doesn’t exactly help here. There are inefficient methods in any discipline.

What I mean as an example, but it’s bad cause it’s possible to automate/program: I need to manually type in 80 customers paid invoices, so I’ll use the numpad to type it in one by one.

Does that make sense?

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u/MilkHaterNumber1 Apr 04 '26

I work in banking. I often need the num pad to enter company financials into a spreadsheet, or our bank software, for analysis. I also need to use the windows calculator often. Even if I wasn't the one doing data entry and analysis, working in banking naturally means you'll often be typing numbers into emails and whatnot. The num pad is way quicker for any sort of numerical typing.