Bastian Greshake TzovarasI’m now at the age where my body complains about too much typing on crap #keyboards. Let’s see if this helps, if I ever get up to my regular typing speed (currently: 25 wpm instead of ~85 wpm).
Up to 45 wpm on the split #keyboard, still not great, but also not bad for a few days of minimal training during travel!
Slowly getting there, at least for the letter keys I've seen to update my muscle memory quite well!
Doing any shortcuts and moving around is still less ingrained, despite having put movements on a vim-style hjkl -based layer.
A good three weeks later I'm up to ~82 WPM on the split keyboard, at least for regular text, finding symbols and shortcuts is still a bit slower!
Michael Baudis@gedankenstuecke Here is one requested by a family member … https://typeractive.xyz/pages/build/corne_choc
@mbaudis yeah, that's a very common and nice form factor!
When I decided to make the switch I thought I'd use the number row and trackpad a lot more than I actually do.
But I do enjoy the extra number of keys on the thumb cluster I have to say!
Peter Cock@gedankenstuecke Excellent - almost at your old speed & more than enough for work (and the numbers/symbols will come in time if that is slowing down your programming).
I’m still in the 35 to 40 wpm range I think, but as we’ve discussed, new non-qwerty layout and new corne keyboard. Still tinkering with numbers and symbols - currently toying with two key combos for symbols rather than an extra layer.
I’m now trying not to use Qwerty on my laptop and desktop (with corne)…
@pjacock yeah, with a different base layout I'd definitely be lost! It's funny, I've now mostly stopped using the number row in favor of the symbol layer 😄
@gedankenstuecke How are you entering numbers? Using the number row 1 to 0 along the top, a number pad on a layer, or something else?
@pjacock my symbol layer puts the numbers on the row above the home row and the corresponding symbols on the actual home row.
@gedankenstuecke I see the logic, but the highly used 1 and 0 on pinkie fingers had put me off. I may reconsider, as it should be easy to remember
@pjacock yeah, for me it worked really well, and so far my pain is gone!
@gedankenstuecke Good 👍
I’m struggling to find the most comfortable position for the split keyboard, but combining this with strimming etc in the garden (“yard work”) hasn’t helped - poor experimental design to change multiple factors at once 🤣
@pjacock haha, I can imagine! At least for me I keep moving it around too, but I think I probably did the same with a regular keyboard and just didn't pay attention to it the same way!