I don’t think most people here are doing a good job of explaining how you work with a small split. In general, you program them to do exactly what you want them to do. So if you want a numpad, then you add a numpad. If you want it on its own layer then you can do that, or you can make it based on other keys.
For a long time I had mine set up so that I literally just hold my thumb down and then everything under that hand turned into a numpad. You didn’t need to move your hand at all and you got a full numpad. Nowadays I don’t use a numpad, so I just have to hold to get a number layer. And my symbols layer (I’m a programmer) is directly under my home row, all the way across. So I literally don’t need to lift my fingers from the home row to type all of my most used non letter characters.
The whole point is that it’s customizable and you can do pretty much anything you want. Some people even have 12 key keyboards (that’s not a joke). And they’re fully functional.
I don’t think most people here are doing a good job of explaining how you work with a small split. In general, you program them to do exactly what you want them to do. So if you want a numpad, then you add a numpad. If you want it on its own layer then you can do that, or you can make it based on other keys.
For a long time I had mine set up so that I literally just hold my thumb down and then everything under that hand turned into a numpad. You didn’t need to move your hand at all and you got a full numpad. Nowadays I don’t use a numpad, so I just have to hold to get a number layer. And my symbols layer (I’m a programmer) is directly under my home row, all the way across. So I literally don’t need to lift my fingers from the home row to type all of my most used non letter characters.
The whole point is that it’s customizable and you can do pretty much anything you want. Some people even have 12 key keyboards (that’s not a joke). And they’re fully functional.