> and he started typing a phone number using the top row of the keyboard instead of the numpad As I'd expect any good programmer to...? As a 100+ wpm touch typ

> and he started typing a phone number using the top row of the keyboard instead of the numpad As I'd expect any good programmer to...? As a 100+ wpm touch typist (including symbols + numbers) and former finance professional, I use the top row of the keyboard for numbers. How is having 8 fingers available that don't have to move much going to be slower than using three that have to move up and down? I get the point that the programmer wasn't behaving like the users; that's a good critique, but I'm picking up the vibe from this comment that you think the numpad is inherently better for that sort of thing? No way... Edit: huh, seeing the chain of comments here, I guess I'm in the minority? I don't see how someone can consider them a touch typist (type quickly without looking at the keyboard) and not be able to reach and use numbers and symbols, but maybe a lot of folks here are like that? How do you program with numbers, and ampersands, and parentheses, and asterisks and the equal sign and underscores and all that, having to look down at the keyboard??? It just seems obvious to me that a skilled typist would be much faster using the top numbers than the numpad.