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> I use a weird little 40% keyboard (Vortex Core) Total aside: I really wish someone would make a normal-size keyboard with all those extra modifier keys. I d
by Slansitartop 9y ago
> I use a weird little 40% keyboard (Vortex Core)
Total aside: I really wish someone would make a normal-size keyboard with all those extra modifier keys. I don't really care for hyper-compactness, I just want to be able to easily type more characters in a backward-compatible way.
> Turns out it's not as common as I thought for people who type a lot to actually know where certain keys are, independent of their physical location. I thought that the majority of heavy typists would know which symbol is on which number, certainly symbols they use a lot, but that turned out not to be the case.
Why? Typing is all muscle memory and there's practically zero utility to know the (arbitrary) mapping.
- ta76567656 9y agoI really wish someone would make a normal-size keyboard with all those extra modifier keys. Yes! The closest I've been able to find is the Razer Anansi, though I'm still not completely satisfied with the layout and I don't like the way its keys feel (YMMV). There are some other gaming keyboards with thumb keys but the Anansi is the only one I remember having found with more than three. It's so frustrating, they figured out that you get extra bandwidth by giving the thumbs more keys, but then they throw that extra bandwidth away by making the keyboard smaller. Oh, right, there's also keyboardio. I've never tried it and it's expensive but it doesn't just have thumb keys, it also has palm keys. And there's ergodox though I didn't like it when I tried it. There are also some generic Japanese keyboards with a narrower space bar and extra bucky bits - I assume you'd have to fiddle with remapping keys for optimal use in English.