[nottorp]

> is to not put a dead space between your right typing hand and the rodent

I suppose it depends on what the work is and your style. I tend to drive my IDEs from the keyboard. That of course means I want my PgUp PgDown Home End full size and not cramped.

The mouse is for circle strafing and then my right hand stays on the rodent.

[mindslight]

TenKeyLess / 87% refers to keyboards missing the numpad, but otherwise full size. For example, I'm typing this from a Coolmaster Novatouch. The gap between Backspace/Insert and F12/PrintScr might be a little narrower on this particular model? But otherwise it's a standard size keyboard, just missing the numpad. And If anything, the lack of the numpad makes PgUp PgDown even easier to register to, as they're right at the edge.

[gruturo]

In both this comment and the previous one you describe issues which do not exist on a TenKeyLess keyboard. You must be confusing TKL with other layouts.

On a TKL setup, the arrow keys are not cramped, they're full size and precisely where they're supposed to be.

The PgUp PgDown Home End (and Ins-Del, since that's the rest of that 6-key block) are full size and not cramped, and also precisely where they're supposed to be.

[nottorp]

> The mouse is for circle strafing and then my right hand stays on the rodent.

Hmm do the newer 4x games still allow unit movement from the numpad? Of course with a hex map you don't have enough directional keys on there, but it could probably be done.

Don't have any Civ installed atm so I can't check easily.