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Minor quibble, but I'd rather the B key be on the other side when split.
by barbecue_sauce 8y ago
Minor quibble, but I'd rather the B key be on the other side when split.
- stevenicr 8y agoInteresting, made me look.. on my microsoft erqo natural 4000, the B key is on the left side, which matches what I seen on the linked site's pics. Are you using a brand of keyboard that is putting the B on the right side of a large split? Or using a keyboard that has no space at all between the right and left?
- ken 8y agoBack when I had to learn touch typing (do they do that any more?), we learned the 'correct' finger for each key. The five columns of letters on the left belong to the left hand, so the "B" is in the correct place. The "6", however, is on the left of the split, while it belongs to the right index finger. Most split keyboards get this 'wrong' -- in the sense that old people like me who learned to "touch type" will have to re-learn it. The root cause of all this disagreement, of course, is the weird offsets of the rows. Why aren't the keys in a square matrix formation? There haven't been typebars on keyboards in decades, and the fingers on my left and right hands are symmetric. If you're going to make everybody learn new muscle memory for escape, space, arrow keys, function keys, etc., why not fix the row spacing, too, while you're at it? I find it strange to maintain just this one legacy misfeature.