I remember in Morrowind I would start punching Kwama Foragers right away to increase my hand-to-hand, in Skyrim I always play with a Khajiit and since there is no more hand-to-hand skill I beat up every Nord muscle head on the punching fights (that we can have with some NPCs n some settlements)... All becasue Khajiits have a bonus to unarmed damage... The NPCs can't increase their unarmed damage in any way (because there is no more skill for that, while in Morrowind we could have each NPC with a different value for that skill and have some being easier and others harder) so I win easily.