MS Sculpt ergonomic keyboard for home (discontinued now but "improved" versions are available here (https://matiaseu.store/products/fk413xx), Logitech K380 when I travel to the office.
My favorite keyboards
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#62Glove80 for me (even have 2 of them) with Kinesis Advantage 2 being a close second.
Do you just buy more of the footpads online or have you figured out a more permanent solution? I pack mine up and travel with it frequently, and the rubber feet are always coming off.
3 went off so far... maybe I should try a proper glue for them? It is not like I have any reason to access the screw behind, and if, I can always cut the rubber away somehow.
This said, it is nothing exotic, the M3 m9448A is the number for rubber feets. It just difficult to buy it a non-industrial amount.
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#63I need a split wireless mechanical keyboard to use with my phone on the go. Anybody have something good?
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#64Can't wait for mainstream laptops with ortholinear layout and split space bar.
I don't think that's ever happening. They're still using a layout that puts I and O next to the numbers row as a remnant of the era where these letters were used as numbers. Can't blame the laptop manufacturers either. Masses are going to come out with pitchforks if any major laptop manufacturer changes anything with the keyboard.
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#65I need a split wireless mechanical keyboard to use with my phone on the go. Anybody have something good?
I've enjoyed the corne I got from typeractive [0]. I am pretty sure I have paired it with my phone for the heck of it but not used it in any meaningful capacity that way. It's running zmk so you should be able to read about others' experiences with it.
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#66Earlier quoted context omitted.
Countervailing story: the Ergodox (EZ specifically but that's less important) gave me permanent RSI in my thumbs, because it was too big for my hands, and to this day I pretty much can't use a keyboard layout that relies on lots of thumb involvement. Even just hitting the spacebar throughout the day or using my thumbs to type on a smartphone is enough to flare it up, almost a decade after I stopped using that keyboar…
Any other tips, I have basically the same thing.
I have joint problems in my thumbs and have trouble with thumb-heavy layouts, but have found the Sofle V2 to work well for me. For my hands it is important that the center thumb key be directly below the N and B keys, which the Sofle provides.
Details at https://josef-adamcik.cz/electronics/another_year_for_sofle....
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#67I have a Moonlander but I could never get used to it, even when remapping some keys so that tab is where my muscle memory expects it to be. But maybe trying to use it for both windows (play) and macos (work) was a problem. I should give it another go. Of course another issue may be that I'm very much a mouse-and-keyboard person instead of a keyboard wizard. I should get an alternative to my old compact / flat apple k…
I have an Ergodox EZ for work, and I love it for that, but for my gaming I just use a typical keyboard, I couldn't get used to it for gaming.
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#68I have a Moonlander but I could never get used to it, even when remapping some keys so that tab is where my muscle memory expects it to be. But maybe trying to use it for both windows (play) and macos (work) was a problem. I should give it another go. Of course another issue may be that I'm very much a mouse-and-keyboard person instead of a keyboard wizard. I should get an alternative to my old compact / flat apple k…
It might also be that you just don’t want or need an ortholinear layout, plenty of people don’t. If you like the split design and programmability of the Moonlander but not the layout and associated relearning curve, I can recommend the UHK as a good choice.
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#69I find it strange that people who start caring about ergonomics settle for Ergodox, Moonlander and other halfway there solutions when Kinesis, Glove80, Maltron who have put in real ergonomic research exist..
You find it strange that people have preferences? The ultimate ergonomic keyboard is the one that feels good *for you*. I don't like the Ergodox-style keyboards myself because they're missing a row, and no amount of meta layering is going to convince me otherwise.
Yes, I find it strange that people have this preference.
If you are deep enough into the rabbit hole of ordering a mechanical ergonomically keyboard you are doing yourself a disservice by not ordering an actual ergonomic one. Especially given that the price is virtually the same and r/ErgoMechKeyboards/geekhack(which you will inevitably know exist if you are at this stage) is full of Glove80/Advantage vs Moonlander threads which all say the same thing.
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#70Earlier quoted context omitted.
My experience switching layout is poor. I touch typed Qwerty at around 75 WPM. I switched to Colemak, and after a month or so of Monkeytype I am back at around 75 WPM but didn't gain significant speed. I never had serious wrist pain, so I can't say Colemak helped with that. After sharing this with some people, it turns out that a lot of speed gains, and maybe wrist pain improvement, comes from people that switch from…
You have read my comment inattentively, I consider QWERTY-inspired ones exactly as weak as QWERTY. Speed is not important in typing goals at all. What maters is ability to delegate a typing routine out of your consciousness. No peeking, no misusing pinkies, no caring about WPM, no mismatching keys from different layouts. You should always prefer to put all of your 10 fingers on the keyboard even if all you need is to…
> the proper layout
which is?