How good/bad is QWERTY? Seriously.
So in my previous write-up, while highlighting the benefits of alternative and custom layouts, I declared without much evidence that QWERTY is not that bad at all, and also that it is in the top 2% of all the possible layouts. Well, like so many times in life: it depends. I did my original research many years ago - the exact value was in fact 1.82% -, but I forgot to mention that this is only valid in a special case: using my personal corpus and ruleset. It makes sense since back in the day I did this to support the design process of my own custom keymaps. Anyway, it was high time to redo my original experiment, dive in this topic a bit deeper, and reveal the logic and method behind my calculations. Spoiler alert: I was wrong! Or was I? ;) QWERTY Everyone knows QWERTY I guess. Christopher Sholes, Remington 2 typewriter, preventing jamming of type bars, path dependence, whatever. I'm not going to cover it here, check this previous write-up of mine if you are interested...
Jul 1, 2024
- The feet are a joke, there should be a second set included at 6-7 degree incline.
- Lighting configuration is terrible, it doesn't even remember the last lighting setting you had if you restart your computer. So if you don't want rainbow you have to reset it every time. For a mechanical logitech 1/3 of the price you can do some of the coolest lighting and there are tens of thousands of designs. In order for me to customize the lighting on this I have to use powershell and do it myself???
- The lighting is too dim and the shinethrough is really poor so in a regularly lit room, you have to look carefully to see if you're hitting the right number on the number row.
- Having it at 65% means I keep missing the backspace and instead hit the Delete key in the top right corner but I think that will just take time to get used to.
- Shipping was awful, it took almost two full weeks to arrive.
- The halo trues are HEAVY. I'm coming from blues and silvers and I really have to slam down on these halo trues. I don't mind it but be aware and it will definitely be something in a year or two that I swap out.
I have not bothered to adjust keycaps or switches which is the bread and butter for this, but at roughly $150 it's really bad to see such small things not addressed. I'll probably stick with my rubber ducky as my main and let this be a builder board over time.