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It's good to see these smaller gaming keyboards getting more common. I never got why people who play low mouse-sensitivity games like CS:GO use full-size keyboa

It's good to see these smaller gaming keyboards getting more common. I never got why people who play low mouse-sensitivity games like CS:GO use full-size keyboards that limit the space they have available for a big mousepad. An imo more interesting ergonomic gaming keyboard is the Azeron [1]. It's based on the old DataHand keyboards (which were way ahead of their time) and I hope that this kind of ergonomic layout becomes more common. I don't own one myself (I use a HHKB Pro 2), but not having to move your hands at all when typing seems pretty comfortable. [1]: https://www.azeron.eu/ https://www.azeron.eu/

rhinoceraptor 7y ago
Counterstrike pros do a lot of things that seem weird at first, like playing low resolution 4:3 on a 16:9 monitor, with black bars on the sides. That seems ridiculous until you consider that they don't actually need that extra field of view (since if an opponent catches you looking away, you'll lose), and it makes player models larger on screen. As far as keyboards, I believe most of them are using full size keyboards, not even tenkeyless, because they need the number pad for buy binds. Also, many of them rotate their keyboard slightly clockwise. I'm not exactly sure why, but it does get rid of ulnar deviation as well as take up less room on the desk.
- DavidVoid 7y ago
  >Also, many of them rotate their keyboard slightly clockwise. I'm not exactly sure why, but it does get rid of ulnar deviation as well as take up less room on the desk. The reason I've always heard for that is that desk space on LAN tournaments used to be pretty limited so they had to rotate their keyboards like that in order to fit them, and now they're just doing it out of habit. And I get that buy binds are convenient but it doesn't seem worth the extra desk space, especially not when there are many other unused keys that can be used for buy binds instead.
jrockway 7y ago
People like full keyboards for gaming so they can shit talk in chat. Though you can type "gg ez" without your right hand...
- DavidVoid 7y ago
  When I wrote full-size I meant that they could be using Tenkeyless (no numpad) or 60% (no numpad, arrow cluster, or F-row) keyboards instead of normal full-size ones. See the deskthority wiki for more details on various keyboard sizes. https://deskthority.net/wiki/Compact_keyboard https://deskthority.net/wiki/Compact_keyboard

rhinoceraptor 7y ago

Counterstrike pros do a lot of things that seem weird at first, like playing low resolution 4:3 on a 16:9 monitor, with black bars on the sides. That seems ridiculous until you consider that they don't actually need that extra field of view (since if an opponent catches you looking away, you'll lose), and it makes player models larger on screen. As far as keyboards, I believe most of them are using full size keyboards, not even tenkeyless, because they need the number pad for buy binds. Also, many of them rotate their keyboard slightly clockwise. I'm not exactly sure why, but it does get rid of ulnar deviation as well as take up less room on the desk.

DavidVoid 7y ago
>Also, many of them rotate their keyboard slightly clockwise. I'm not exactly sure why, but it does get rid of ulnar deviation as well as take up less room on the desk. The reason I've always heard for that is that desk space on LAN tournaments used to be pretty limited so they had to rotate their keyboards like that in order to fit them, and now they're just doing it out of habit. And I get that buy binds are convenient but it doesn't seem worth the extra desk space, especially not when there are many other unused keys that can be used for buy binds instead.

jrockway 7y ago

People like full keyboards for gaming so they can shit talk in chat. Though you can type "gg ez" without your right hand...

DavidVoid 7y ago
When I wrote full-size I meant that they could be using Tenkeyless (no numpad) or 60% (no numpad, arrow cluster, or F-row) keyboards instead of normal full-size ones. See the deskthority wiki for more details on various keyboard sizes. https://deskthority.net/wiki/Compact_keyboard https://deskthority.net/wiki/Compact_keyboard