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Example: As noted in the post, some people have a longer middle finger while some have a longer ring finger. The “wingspan” can also vary wildly especially with the wide varieties of height.
I’m still hoping to see keyboard designs that adjust for the size of the user’s hand and length of their individual fingers. Example: As noted in the post, some people have a longer middle finger while some have a longer ring finger. The “wingspan” can also vary wildly especially with the wide varieties of height.
This looked so good until I saw it requires switches to be soldered (by them or you). Hot-swappable switches is a must for me, specially at this price point. I guess my ergodox will have to last a bit longer until a proper replacement is found.
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I'm close to 50yo so i blame my slow uptake on that but I'm finally close to my original typing speed now (also about 110) after a month on the glove80. I'm not quite convinced by it yet as a pragmatic tool but I'm enjoying the hell out of it as something new and interesting. Kind of like driving stick. Had to do a bit of remapping to get it to be usable, as i use the super key a lot for my window manager.
where did u map the super key to?
It looks neat, though it always seems strange to me when an ergonomic setup involves picking up one of your hands and moving it to the side often to use a separate mouse or keyboard. Is there not a better place to put it, integrated or slightly above or in the middle etc, to avoid having to change hand position all the time?
That's the exact idea behind the Charybdis and Dilemma keyboard (kits) from Bastard Keyboards [0] [0] https://bastardkb.com/
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As someone who sits in front of computers way above the average and never had any issues with eyes or hands (while others my age had issues there) I think this is the key: Try to get into the habit to stretch your wrists/fingers when you are not using them and try to do the same thing with your eyes (eyes are muscles too), by e.g. focusing onto something far away, rolling your eyes, etc. If you are of the type that g…
Curiously, unlike many, my wrists and fingers have been fine but I have tight/frozen shoulder and neck issues. Keeping the UHK halves apart and Magic Trackpad in the middle has probably been helpful, I can’t say yet.
If you are otherwise healthty, doing those exercises 15 to 30 minutes per day will have you pain gone in a week.
And if you get a feeling for which muscles they are targeting you might be able to find variations of those stretches that you can do inbetween while sitring at your computer.
I bought moonlander some time ago and found the learning process far too frustrating. What's more, I noticed that the more I switched to the new layout, the more I was struggling with more classic ones (primarily laptops and my trusty MS NEK 4000). That was enough for me to shelve the moonlander for now. How long it takes to fully and comfortably switch, including all the punctuation characters? Did you also struggle…
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I hand-wired and hand-soldered two of them myself (back before you could buy them as easily). I was hoping flexible PCBs ( https://www.reddit.com/r/ErgoMechKeyboards/comments/qbw7i4/o... ) would make the hand-wiring part much less labor intensive.
Did it?
Though honestly if it broke, I'd probably just pay for the next one, not worth the labor (literally hundreds of solder points and hand wiring over like 30 hours). I did it mostly to learn about soldering/electronics and thought it would be fun.
The careful hand wiring is the laborious part, which the flexible PCB seems to solve. So I'd imagine it would take a 30 hour task down to 2 hours?
I'm very happy with my Glove80. I started with a prototype 3D printed model last year: the creators are friends of mine, and I wrote the LED status display code for them. I also dropped the prototype down a flight of concrete stairs (sorry! It still works though). I now have a production model with the white clicky keyswitches. Ultra happy with it. I've been using Kinesis Advantage2s for a shade over two decades - th…
You're using silent clicky switches? What's the activation force? (I have an Ergodox EZ and love it)