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Re: Humble Hacker Keyboard

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Insane. The home rows are a key too wide. A qwerty touch typist never needs to move a finger more than one key left or right from its resting position (try this -- it hurts!). This layout forces you to do so regularly to hit either control/shift modifiers or the cursor controls and/or backspace in the middle (gack: imagine having to move your wrist just to backspace over the "S" you just typed!).

Traditional layout may have its bugs, but that doesn't mean that anything novel is better.

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