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Re: One Handed Keyboard

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Post by pfortuny »

dandersch wrote: post #46
iagooar wrote: post #39

I 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 Look into homerow mods if you are prepared to do some (invasive) key remaps in software: https://precondition.github.io/home-row-mods

This has changed my life so much for the better. Once I knew about this, I needed look no further.

Re: One Handed Keyboard

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Post by cons0le »

If anyone's interested in something way faster that still lets you go one handed. Take a look at the charachorder. You can type one handed, or easily rip 200wpm with 2 hands. But it does take like a year to get fast. I was coming from a moonlander tho so I was ready

Re: One Handed Keyboard

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Post by cons0le »

jimlikeslimes wrote: post #20
keyle wrote: post #7

I'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...

Check out chorded keyboards. They've been a thing for a very long time. At least since early 00s or 90s when I saw them first. They are held one handed have 5 keys and you get different letters by chording multiple keys together.

CharaChorder beats all. I can type faster than I can talk

Re: One Handed Keyboard

#56

Post by y-curious »

mholm wrote: post #32
zero0529 wrote: post #21

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Okay I must say, the production quality of that video is insane.

Feels like HTX blew up out of nowhere with a ton of long form content at once, but they were huge in Chinese social media already, and finally decided to start translating previous content to english and uploading to Youtube.

My family and I binged a few of their videos. They’re so good

Re: One Handed Keyboard

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Post by utopcell »

..we found an off the shelf keyboard that could work, but we couldn't get it because it was 999 euros. So let's make 7 iterations of our own keyboard with our Formlabs 3d printer, create silicom molds for each key, print legends with our uv printer and we're done. Glad he did though, looks awesome!

Re: One Handed Keyboard

#58

Post by y-curious »

cons0le wrote: post #53

If anyone's interested in something way faster that still lets you go one handed. Take a look at the charachorder. You can type one handed, or easily rip 200wpm with 2 hands. But it does take like a year to get fast. I was coming from a moonlander tho so I was ready

Thank you for sharing, so flipping cool. How do you handle the mouse navigation aspect? That’s one thing missing from my glove80

Re: One Handed Keyboard

#59

Post by r0b05 »

mechanicum wrote: post #4

Their video on YouTube, in English: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9vW12gQ4Klc

Does anyone know which keys/switches out there sound like this one?

It's got a soft cheery non-intrusive sound that I really like compared to the usual louder mechanical keys/switches that I hear in videos.

Re: One Handed Keyboard

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Post by Klathmon »

dandersch wrote: post #46
iagooar wrote: post #39

I 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 Look into homerow mods if you are prepared to do some (invasive) key remaps in software: https://precondition.github.io/home-row-mods

And if you like it, picking up any QMK or ZMK compatible keyboard would let you do it in firmware too!
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