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Hello. Is it via compatible? How do you put layers and remap keys on it? Thank you for your video 😊

How do i learn which is the right finger to press each key? I can touch type (mostly) but i almost exclusively use my index finger, expecially with my right arm... I can type around 35wpm when touch typing. So, any advice

too much stagger propaganda! get split colstag (e.g., corne) and forget about this bullshit forever.

now this, this is cool

Since it's lego compatible you can upgrade the hinge and \ or hide the cable with bigger rotation piece. Or replace it with ball joint and angle the legs to make it tilted. Thought it's still an ortholinear board. Meaning it's a waste of time & resources that leads nowhere.

if not applying PEQ, will the noise occur?

Voyager for me, and figured I would switch layouts at the same time to get the most benefit. It's been game changing. Layers for everything, I don't have to move my hands for anything anymore; nav keys, backspace, enter, modifiers, they're all on thumbs or the homerow. My chest is open, my wrists are facing the right way, and all my discomfort is gone including the savage rsi that was developing in my wrist

What other solutions would you recommend?

unrealistic trash

Actually I have 5 keyboards: 3 splits, 1 Alice and right now a Planck. The motivation was because I wanted something easier to transport when I go to work to the office or a coffee shop, despite the Corne keyboard for example is a small keyboard, it is not comfortable to transport a split keyboard, specially when you don't have a travel kit. It's funny, but it uses more space than oneself expected. So the compact design of the Planck is perfect to move it.

when will you make a video regarding your Night layout? You reached your fastest with Night on rowstag with the angle mod? Your website shows a colstag layout... It would be good to have both shown.

190 "words" per minute is not real. Do that while copying a text you have never read. Full sentences. Punctuation. And what was you 190 wpm accuracy rate?

dactyls are super cheap if you're not dumb enough to pay 200 dollars for it and just learning how to solder and a bit of programming, like?????

cool video but just wanted to say that the "staggered" keyboard example is horrendous, it displays terrible taste, from the shitty coloured lights to the keycaps, its a huge eyesore and such a bizzarre choice for an example of a "normal' keyboard. 40%s are cool but that is just absolutely disgusting

Excellent.. Thank you! Exactly the kind of detailed information I needed to decide between split rowstag or colstag, or not split at all. This follows a lot of my own reasoning and now I know without a doubt that rowstag is better for qwerty. All I really need is more keys for these strong, but ruefully underutilized thumbs.

Awesome video! Thank you for the education!

There are fairly customizable pcbs for dactyl now as well - no need to wire them, thanks to BastardKB, on github now (not a single switch variants, but full flexible board for left/right hand respectively). It is 6x6 which breaks down to 5x3, so don't really see a reason to hand-wire it, unless you are doing extreme angle and it won't flex enough without breaking.

What's the point of the plate with all the holes in it can't I just plug or solder my keys to my PCB and bolt it into my case?

Aside from the jaw dropping animation for its time, this anime really opened my ears to Yokko Kano

Are ideas on keyboards like Chara Chorder?

Problem with alternative key layout is when you live in a place where English is not the main language.

Thanks.

Me no hit 100 in week now me big sad 😢😢

Very nice and informative video! I would recommend recording more down, the angle of the camrea means there is a lot of blur towards the end of the frame. Maybe you can close the aperture a bit too? Idk, maybe you are going for the macro/fuzzy look

Cidoo abm066 is an amazing Alice keyboard imo. Via compatible. Cheap.

I have the Reviung 41. It whas a long period of adaptation, but it's much more confortable than any other keyboard that I test. The only con that I can think it's that do not have the number line up. The next keyboard that I want to buy is the Lily58, split, numbers and full compatibility with VIA/QMK

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Some day kids will be asking why the icon for the messaging app with their brain integrated computer system is a grid of squares.

I made myself a custom col staggered keyboard with measurements from my fingers and good god is it comfortable to never worry about hitting the wrong key. On my normal qwerty non ergo i learned to contort my fingers in weird ways to hit the keys upper or lower of home, and i have been actively unlearning that. You move your fingers up, down or for the outers left or right and it just works. Like, no weird looking/feeling whether you are actually hitting your key or if you are above/below the mark because your finger is curled slightly differently than normal. You reach for a key, and it's there. Also i made a huge thumbfan to take almost all modifier keys away from the fingers, so my hand basically never moves, my fingers are always centred on home and i can just relax my hands because i took my unique hand as a mold to rotate the columns. It just lies as if on a table, and the fingers don't have to move left or right for the other keys because the rows are aligned with them. Heavenly. I am still experimenting with the layout and thumbfan though, but the letters are already really good. After making this (considering the effort, time and skill necessary) i was wondering if people would pay for a uniquely made keyboard, but since I haven't used any other ergo keebs, i was thinking that the benefits would probably outweigh the costs to completely customise it. Also it is 100% 3d printed, so the build quality is maybe a bit cheap, and the sound would probably not be enough for "thock" aficionados, i would guess a cnc machine would probably help with that though. Hardly worth investing in one for a keyboard though. I was working on a new version with hotswap capabilities but currently it is hard soldered, probably need a better 3d printer for that too. As before, hardly worth spending 500-600$ at the cheapest to build a single keyboard.

I had forearm pain and got a Moonlander it helped but was a bulky for traveling so I switched to the Voyager and I think it’s perfect.

I think the trouble with this is that you'd need a lifelong study of keyboard use, where a substantial number of people used ergonpmic split boards for the majority of that time, to have any chance of truly determing whether it matters. In the meantime, I just find it more comfortable.

Concave split is awesome. I was typing a lot and started to get wrist pain, switched to an ergo keyboard (Glove80) and pain disappeared in a week.

I love my Iris, I don't have the best posture at my desk when I'm just goofing off. Being able to move the halves around to keep my wrists straight even while not sitting properly is fantastic.

Is that Rofi?

I thought you weren't alting Night 🥲

Oh man. As a future industrial designer, I can see so many opportunities here. I can't wait to make some weird shit.

no homo but your hands are too pretty 😂

Nice vid mate

Great video

Thank you for this, I fell for the hype a few years ago and got a 40% planck keyboard, this was just after learning how to touch type properly. And it just isn't that good, it's cramped and the linearity messed with my wrist position. The staggered layout accidentally really fits the right hand direction. I imagine that ortholinear is only useful if split, so both hands get an angled position.

Good video very informative!! Thank you for sharing!!

Built my own Dactyl Manuform a few years ago after using an Ergodox for years before that. Biggest upside to a keywell style to me is actually the angle of the thumb cluster. This is all for comfort, not speed. I'm never been a crazy fast typer but I'm ok at 100WPM on QWERTY. I've considered moving away from QWERTY but as a PC gamer it makes things WAY more complicated.

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Speedtyping is a different niche to what spawned ergo keyboards, they are not designed to give faster typing speed, they are designed for comfort and reducing strain when typing for long periods of time with potential long term health implications

i don't use a split keyboard, i use 3 keyboards 1 for my left hand, 1 for my right hand, 1 in the middle if I want to type 'normally'

This all lines up pretty well with my experiences, though I haven't tried any well ones. As literally everyone else, started on a standard keyboard that everyone thinks of when they think keyboard, then I bought a planck and that really opened a whole new world for me. I still have extremely mixed feelings on ortholinear layouts, but I also found a lot of fun benefits with the tiny footprint and basically forcing me to rethink how I use a keyboard in the first place. So while I don't think I'd ever really recommend an ortholinear to anyone, if nothing else, it is what set me on my journey. Now I use a custom built Corne and I honestly love it. I have some frankly pretty minor nitpicks with it so I've been looking at the ZSA Voyager to replace it. That one would give me a dedicated number row back, and I only actually end up using 2 thumb keys so the removal of one isn't even a consideration, and all that while retaining everything that I enjoy this Corne for. Hopefully it's as good as I'm hoping it'll be lol

I've been on the fence on getting an Alice keyboard for the last couple of months.... this just solidified my decision and I'm getting one now :D any recommendations for a case?

Appreciate the video: history and interviews. One thing: the synthetic voice distracted me. Maybe just pitch it next time rather than reverb/or whatever processing was on it.

I been using a standard tkl/75%/60% for a while and never had improper wrist bending issues. I use proper touch typing techniques on a QWERTY layout and top 150wpm on a 30 sec typing test. I find it's fastest to type on tactile mechanical switches with a hard mounting system. Just sharing my experience. I guess not everyone can be comfortable with such a setup though.

I’ve been using split keyboards in my work as a software developer for over a decade. I do not care about speed, at all. I would rather type more comfortably and slower than aggregate RSI pain for speed. Split ergo keyboards are optimized for this comfort, not for speed.