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Wishbone2021
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Mar 7, 2021
Why has ergonomics not caught on in the mechanical keyboard community? I cannot understand this. Enthusiasts are aiming for the most fluid, easy typing experience yet twist their wrists at very unnatural angles to type. To demonstrate this just place your hands on a table in front of you with your thumbs about 1/2" apart. See the angle of your hands? They're angled in, right? That's what your keyboard should require, not parallel wrists like in traditional keyboards. Of course the real solution is a 2 piece keyboard. Then you place each wherever feels best and every day is a little different to give your muscles/joints rest. The Microsoft 4000 and their other ergo models are a good introduction to ergo typing at a reasonable cost. Some people use 2 USB keyboards with one hand on each. I wonder if one could make 2 mechanical keyboards for this with half the keys on each and no space wasting numeric keypad? That's drawing on all the advantages of mechanical keyboards WITH ergonomics. Also 2 keyboards are much more compact and easier to pack with a laptop than 1 full size keyboard.
moto.moto
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Mar 10, 2021
Wishbone2021They do make those. Its called split keyboards.
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A community member
Mar 10, 2021
Wishbone2021split keyboards are a thing. just not that many people designing/making them. theres also tented split keyboards that are even more ergonomic. why isnt it catching on more? in the custom keyboard scene (which is already small) has smaller sub-groups like split keyboards that are even smaller. plus not a lot of keycap sets support split keyboard layouts.
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