Hapless HackerMy current favorite keyboard is my OLKB preonic. I've gotten really good at typing on it with my custom keymapping at the expense of typing well on a regular keyboard.
Cindส Xiao ๐@Super_Crush Small ortho keyboards are the best ๐ Do you use a lot of layers on yours?
@cxiao I do not. I just have one layer as a numpad and another for function keys and other characters I need. I got used to it very quickly and haven't felt the need to change it up.
@Super_Crush I'm the same way; at a certain point it becomes hard to remember without visual cues. I have a function key layer and a directional keys layer on my Iris, plus an elaborate plan for several symbol layers which I lever ended up doing lol
@cxiao I was apprehensive at first because I wasn't sure if I'd remember which key would be under which layer but I quickly learned.
Ryan@Super_Crush @cxiao don't be afraid to experiment...look for common awkward reaches and fix them. I ended up reordering my symbol keys and moving them around to be more reasonable, like clustering the pairs of brackets and lt/get keys closer to the home row.
@Super_Crush I have a couple Plancks and use a #crkbd as my main keyboard. When I first picked up an ortholinear/layered/chorded keyboard, it completely shocked me that I was able to learn to type on it at all. It's a pain switching between keyboard types, but each time I feel like I learn more about what I want in my keymap and it makes my typing better.
@colossus I almost got a Planck, but I decided I liked having a number row more. My last daily driver keyboard was a Vortex Core 40%.
@Super_Crush I thought about it, but for me holding a key with my thumb and having all the numbers across the home row was a win