i believe that a crucial feature of good keyboards is that your wrist is stationary. this enables a better form of "muscle memory". i've been using such a keyboard for two decades.
My personal search ended with the ZSA Moonlander.
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#42Like people trying to find new interfaces for music making [thank god touchscreens!], there are people trying to figure out new hardware for interacting with computers. Thank you dudes!
PS: the first step towards feeling why such research is so important is when you start customizing productivity shortcuts on your existing keyboard. Then you understand that the input device in front of you can be more than a stupid typewriter. From there you start interrogating your interaction with machines. [and then you are addict, and you end up designing your own device :)]
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#43I saw the keyboard to be operated by the left hand only and here is my (totally personal and somewhoat adjacent) problem with it. My left hand is the one which has suffered the most the many hours of using a keyboard over the last +-25 years. While the right hand has the occasional break from the keyboard when using the mouse, the left hand is constantly glued to the keyboard. It also has a much tougher job - all the…
I'm at the point where I need to redefine cmd-z, x, c, v because my left thumb doesn't want to do that dance anymore. It's been painful for a year, and I finally got to the point of redefining it a couple weeks ago. And the muscle memory is so ingrained that I changed it to option ', 1, 2, 3 and never thought about the idea that my right hand could do it.
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#45I saw the keyboard to be operated by the left hand only and here is my (totally personal and somewhoat adjacent) problem with it. My left hand is the one which has suffered the most the many hours of using a keyboard over the last +-25 years. While the right hand has the occasional break from the keyboard when using the mouse, the left hand is constantly glued to the keyboard. It also has a much tougher job - all the…
I was getting hand pain, switched to a Totem keyboard. 38 keys, 6 thumb keys. Column splay & never reaching for number row has greatly helped. 20g actuation means little force needed
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#46I saw the keyboard to be operated by the left hand only and here is my (totally personal and somewhoat adjacent) problem with it. My left hand is the one which has suffered the most the many hours of using a keyboard over the last +-25 years. While the right hand has the occasional break from the keyboard when using the mouse, the left hand is constantly glued to the keyboard. It also has a much tougher job - all the…
>It also has a much tougher job - all the cmd, ctrl, alt and shift + combinations are mostly done using the left hand
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#47Their video on YouTube, in English: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9vW12gQ4Klc
I wonder what issues they ran into with using the entire keyboard as a mouse.
I'm assuming it's too heavy and has too much contact surface (so more friction), making it too hard to glide smoothly.
There's probably something with the position of the hand when you move the mouse as well. At least I seem to be moving mostly the wrist when I use my mouse, meaning that my hand and forearm are not always aligned; without this alignment, I feel there's more strain on the wrist when typing.
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#48I saw the keyboard to be operated by the left hand only and here is my (totally personal and somewhoat adjacent) problem with it. My left hand is the one which has suffered the most the many hours of using a keyboard over the last +-25 years. While the right hand has the occasional break from the keyboard when using the mouse, the left hand is constantly glued to the keyboard. It also has a much tougher job - all the…
You should remap ctrl/cmd (whatever feels better) to caps lock. It'll be much more convenient.
Check out make caps lock great again.
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#49I'm trying to understand why this isn't a thing already. It seems there would be a market for it; when you consider all the different keyboards shapes and sizes...
A UK company had produced them for decades, which probably serves most injured non-geek users. https://www.maltron.com/store/p19/Maltron_Single_Hand_Keyboa...
That's actually quite a reasonable price for such a specialized device.
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#50Super cool!