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I've been thinking of ordering an Ergodox keyboard for a while, but the altered layout scared me off so far. Would you say you took up fast on the moved keys? D
by btschaegg 10y ago
I've been thinking of ordering an Ergodox keyboard for a while, but the altered layout scared me off so far. Would you say you took up fast on the moved keys? Does the columnar layout provide some advantage?
Right now, I'm excitedly looking forward to the UHK. It really promises some quite unique takes on the concept of a keyboard.
- zck 10y agoI didn't find switching too bad, but I also set up my own layout for the non-alphabetic keys. So I don't find it hard to remember where most of the special characters are, because I just thought "where is the first place I'd look for them", and put them there. Then, when I have to figure it out, my first guess is usually correct. The only ones I mess up are - and =, which are the two innermost bottom keys of the "letter" clusters. But it's a small issue; I'm sure I could practice for a bit and make it easier. > Does the columnar layout provide some advantage? To me, I like the fact that if a keyboard was designed without paying attention to historical accident, there's no way you'd make it a row-based keyboard, but would instead make a columnar keyboard, or perhaps slightly staggered. To me, the thumb clusters are a big reason to switch. But then, I'm a big shortcut fan -- I use Emacs a lot. But then, I also didn't have that difficult a time switching from QWERTY to Colemak, so perhaps my brain easily changes this kind of thing.