People have different preferences: https://www.reddit.com/r/MechanicalKeyboards/comments/37pw1s/what_the_idea_behind_smaller_keyboards/ https://www.reddit.com/r

People have different preferences: https://www.reddit.com/r/MechanicalKeyboards/comments/37pw1s/what_the_idea_behind_smaller_keyboards/ https://www.reddit.com/r/MechanicalKeyboards/comments/37pw1s... That said (author here), I actually use a 65% for daily use. The 40% was too small for me to use comfortably. I could get used to the caps lock for arrow keys and text editing stuff, but having to remember shortcuts to type a semicolon just wasn't for me.