It really depends. After 18+ months of use I'm still much faster with the stylus keyboard on the N810 for shell, multilingual or any input use case that requires frequent use of numbers or symbols.
I have to admit that I agree. I rarely open my keyboard. But, I think this is mainly due to the fact that the keyboard is much to "squishy" for my taste -- doubled by the fact that it is behind the plastic covering of my case.