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Re: One Handed Keyboard

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Post by fragmede »

hiq wrote: post #47
dandersch wrote: post #8

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I wonder what issues they ran into with using the entire keyboard as a mouse.

I'm assuming it's too heavy and has too much contact surface (so more friction), making it too hard to glide smoothly. There's probably something with the position of the hand when you move the mouse as well. At least I seem to be moving mostly the wrist when I use my mouse, meaning that my hand and forearm are not always aligned; without this alignment, I feel there's more strain on the wrist when typing.

my imagined device has the hand a bit more vertical, which would give more leverage for moving the device around.

Could you do a thing with magnets where you have a special mousepad as well with the pad being all one pole pointing up and the device the same pole pointing down?

Also my imagined device would not need the full keyboard, just the full right side of a qwerty keyboard.

Re: One Handed Keyboard

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Post by icarnales »

After a stroke I've been using a software version of the half qwerty keyboard, it works quite well and you dot need special hardware, but you don't have integrated mouse, you can achieve that using ahk on windows and Karabiner Elements on Mac. the big advantage is that you keep using the same qwerty layout but mirrored, this makes it easier to learn. http://half-qwerty.com/

Re: One Handed Keyboard

#93

Post by icarnales »

othomp wrote: post #28

Matias has a neat one-handed keyboard. It's quite expensive for what it is, especially considering these days where it's so easy to get a keyboard with remappable keys. There's a simulator on the sidebar at the link, and IMO it's quite intuitive. https://matias.ca/halfkeyboard/

this can be implemented in software, i use it on Windows with AutoHotKey and on mac with Karabiner Elements, it costs 0 Dollars that way and is great

Re: One Handed Keyboard

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Post by fouc »

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

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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.

Oh nice, these are the guys that made the auto-aiming trash can!

Re: One Handed Keyboard

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Post by gishh »

fragmede wrote: post #90
gishh wrote: post #88

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[flagged]

I've sent money to creators on YouTube/Instagram, but my employer at the time had government contracts, so it's it fair to say the US government funds Factorio video content?

Sure. You nailed it.

Re: One Handed Keyboard

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Post by nvlled »

Kind of uneconomical that they have different designs for left-hand and right-hand. They could have just placed the trackball or a nipple in the middle of the keys, and mouse function keys on any side. The hand still need to move and travel anyway with the current design to reach for the mouse keys.

Re: One Handed Keyboard

#98

Post by 392 »

fallat wrote: post #63
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?

The best way to speed up is to practice. Alternative layouts are a waste of time unless you're trying to fix an ergonomic / pain issue, and even then the board itself and your technique and lifestyle are more important. I type faster than any Dvorak user I've met and I did nothing make that happen except be impatient. But typing is basically over with now that Whisper is a single button press away.

Re: One Handed Keyboard

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Post by r0b05 »

rjzzleep wrote: post #68
r0b05 wrote: post #59

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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/HIl…

Thanks for the info. A split keyboard sounds awesome.

Re: One Handed Keyboard

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Post by r0b05 »

arein3 wrote: post #77
r0b05 wrote: post #59

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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.

The sound is described like creamy or thocky. You can get aula f75 for cheap, arround 50$, there are plenty of sound tests on youtube as it's very popular. I got that version and I am happy, but if I was to buy a new one I would get the full size f108 because it's important for me to have distance between arrow keys and other keys. And tbh I would just get an apple keyboard or something similarly slim because it's mo…

Thanks will check out the aula 75
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