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Re: One Handed Keyboard

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Post by smrq »

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…

Please do your hands a favor and get yourself an ergonomic keyboard! Thumb keys especially alleviate the issues with modifiers that you're describing.

I use a Glove80 as my daily driver right now, although the price tag to build quality ratio is not amazing, so idk if I would recommend it particularly. But there's a massive world of ergo keyboards out there--surely the right one for you exists somewhere!

Re: One Handed Keyboard

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Post by trollbridge »

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…

Use your right hand for meta keys?

Re: One Handed Keyboard

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Post by fallat »

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

I want to pull the trigger on this so badly. I've had my eyes on it for years. It seems the best way to increase typing speed is to reduce finger movement via physical modifications to a keyboard.

Does charachorder support Dvorak-like layout mentally? Not a 1-1 but something similar? Like vowels on left hand?

Re: One Handed Keyboard

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Post by rjzzleep »

r0b05 wrote: post #59
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.

I recently learned that it's not just the switch, but also the gasket, so the switch plate material, the foam layers and even the keycap itself. I built two different split keyboards recently with the same simple Kailh box red v2 switch and they sound and feel completely different just because of the thickness of the switch plate and the type of keycaps I use.(check this for example https://www.youtube.com/shorts/HIldaxljpzc )

You can check if you find the switches colors here(it looks like an Akko purple pro, but not quite) https://keeb-finder.com/switches

Whereas rtings has a filtering list that also has sound profiles in the review pages.

https://www.rtings.com/keyboard-switch/tools/compare

Re: One Handed Keyboard

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Post by helios_tu »

y-curious wrote: post #58
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

ZMK on the glove80 has mouse control! I use a modified version of this keymap: https://sunaku.github.io/moergo-glove80-keyboard.html#mouse-...

Essentially, hold down a thumb key and WASD (well, ESDF) moves the mouse.

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