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My take after building my own fully-custom board is that the best ergonomics is had by ditching the outer column entirely to completely remove pinky reaching.
by CarVac 6y ago
My take after building my own fully-custom board is that the best ergonomics is had by ditching the outer column entirely to completely remove pinky reaching.
The thumb clusters need to be bigger and closer to the alphas so they're more powerful and more easily reached.
My board: https://flic.kr/p/LJdbeC https://flic.kr/p/LJdbeC
- 1MachineElf 6y agoYou are a legend, sir! I recall this being posted to reddit years back. I upvoted it then, and do so again now. I started out with an Atreus42 in 2016 and really loved it, so I totally get that outer columns are superfluous in most circumstances. The same could be said about most extra features on this ZSA Moonlander board overall, although I think there's some utility in being able to leverage the non-essential keys when it's convenient, especially when it costs that much. Say for example one wants to use it for gaming - most games expect there to be an outer column. (Shameless plug) Here's my keymap. It doesn't require outer columns, and needs just 34 keys: https://github.com/1MachineElf/qmk_firmware/tree/sb4dv/planck/keyboards/planck/keymaps/sb4dv https://github.com/1MachineElf/qmk_firmware/tree/sb4dv/planc...