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Thanks for the detailed reply.

If, at 5'10, I am experiencing problems related to desk height, I can only imagine problems are worse for those shorter. I wonder if there is a correlation between height and these kind of problems. Standard desk height seems to be designed for someone who is 6'2.

I was considering adding a keyboard tray, but I'm thinking that I mostly use my desk for a keyboard and mouse, I might as well optimize the desk for that use rather than having an add-on for that purpose.

[cauterized]

Yeah. Keyboard trays also tend to feel cramped once you add a mouse.

I wonder whether the desk height issue has to do with changes in work? It may be that when desk work mostly involved reading and writing papers (I sort of picture someone leaning over their desk to be closer to the paper), a higher surface was more ergonomic. And then nobody thought to change the default because the transition to computer dominated work was so gradual and unrelated to office furniture replacement cycles?

[talktime]

Probably something to do with the market supplying what the customer wants, and the customer being uneducated. Like me . . . If I had seen a 26 inch high desk when I was purchasing the thing, I probably would have passed on it . . would have thought it too low at the time.