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Ultimate Hacking Keyboard. More specifically, currently the UHK 80 with the key cluster module (on the left half) and trackpoint module (on the right half).
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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?
Typing this on a Moonlander right now. Love it to pieces. The tenting kit is pricey but incredibly stable and, to me, is worth every penny. I've gotten used to the ortholinear so much so that I hate other layouts now. I've looked at some other more minimal boards and, while they look nice, I actually make good use of pretty much all my keys and I would not like going down to a smaller layout. In my mind, the most imp…
The Moonlander and the Ergodox both lack Function keys. How do you cope? I spend much time in IDEs, mostly Jetbrains but also VS Code. I'm also constantly in Emacs and VIM, and even my desktop shortcuts have many Function keys used. The IDEs are particularly troublesome as there are quite a few triple buckies that involve the Function keys. Another layer (e.g. using a modifier key) just doesn't seen like a good solut…
Typing this on a Moonlander right now. Love it to pieces. The tenting kit is pricey but incredibly stable and, to me, is worth every penny. I've gotten used to the ortholinear so much so that I hate other layouts now. I've looked at some other more minimal boards and, while they look nice, I actually make good use of pretty much all my keys and I would not like going down to a smaller layout. In my mind, the most imp…
The Moonlander and the Ergodox both lack Function keys. How do you cope? I spend much time in IDEs, mostly Jetbrains but also VS Code. I'm also constantly in Emacs and VIM, and even my desktop shortcuts have many Function keys used. The IDEs are particularly troublesome as there are quite a few triple buckies that involve the Function keys. Another layer (e.g. using a modifier key) just doesn't seen like a good solut…
With those things said, I don't actually use the number row on the Voyager either. I have numbers on home row in an easily-activated layer (with a resting position thumb key held down), and I _love_ it. It feels wonderful rolling across home row to type sequences of numbers. I'd probably put the function row on the same layer, shifted one row up or down, if I needed it regularly.
Layers work well for me. I know they don't for everyone, though.
Well, as a bog-standard person, I use Logitech MX Keys Mini 2 (with Bolt support). It's good enough for typing for long sessions and reliable enough to type on without much thinking. It has great features though. Automatic backlight and standby via hall & ambient light sensors, great key texture and weight, scissor switches instead of bog-standard membrane, etc. It's not a mechanical keyboard and not smooth as one, b…
Logitech is by far the best "get shit done" PC accessory manufacturer. They work, last forever, and have options for nearly every niche there is
My secret weapon is not my keyboard, but my trackball actually. I switched because of a finger pain, and it took me half a day to get used to it. It doesn't have a "heavy" scroll wheel like m705 or MX Anywhere 2 has, but it's actually much better than mice for me. Also it's much more ergonomic without being awkward.
Well, as a bog-standard person, I use Logitech MX Keys Mini 2 (with Bolt support). It's good enough for typing for long sessions and reliable enough to type on without much thinking. It has great features though. Automatic backlight and standby via hall & ambient light sensors, great key texture and weight, scissor switches instead of bog-standard membrane, etc. It's not a mechanical keyboard and not smooth as one, b…
yep. I've tried everything from a bunch of mechanical keyboards to topre keyboards and I finally just came back to the mx keys mini, the magic keyboard mini, and the logitech mechanical mini. they just feel the best over the long term and are close enough to my laptop keyboard that it doesn't feel like I'm making a big change.
As I noted, they're en-US layout, and I can touch type it, but I need my native alphabet and letters while typing daily, so I get them out when I'm going to code at home.
The best part of MX Keys Mini is not the switches but the materials. They are heavy duty and made to be typed on it, all day, every day. Combined with auto-layouting it has, it's a very practical device, esp. if you're using multiple different machines at the same time.
Logitech's wireless keyboards, as you know, automatically switch modifier key layouts when you switch between Mac and PC hosts.
I 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. [0] https://typeractive.xyz/
My most likely one that I would take is this one: https://jezailfunder.jp
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.
>discontinued in case you don't know, there's back and made by incase. The first manufacturing run completely sold out I think, it's backordered until sep 2026. The matias is... not a good replacement, see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46388976
Any QWERTY or QWERTY-inspired keyboard (layout) is silly. Switching to orto without solving a real bottleneck is like changing Opel to Porshe but keep using a set of square wheels. Of course the car will run better, but...
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…