Some benefits of a smaller keyboard are obvious, but I realized that the greatest impact only comes after you've used one for a while. A total game-changer.

The location of the grave/tilde key (~) typically changes with the computer's language settings, but on US/UK QWERTY keyboards, it is usually located above the Tab key, below the Esc key ...

In the late 1880s, piano manufacturer Steinway created the 88-key piano. Other manufacturers followed suit, and Steinway’s model has been the standard ever since. An 88-key piano has seven octaves ...

Even then, the standard keyboard layout can be substantially limiting ... advantages over a standard QWERTY design. They have big keys, the keys can be labeled, and the keys can be ordered ...