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I’ve spent the best part of a year trying to get on with split and ortholinear layouts and frankly I hate them. I think it’s a design that only works for very o
by thom 6y ago
I’ve spent the best part of a year trying to get on with split and ortholinear layouts and frankly I hate them. I think it’s a design that only works for very orthodox typists, and I don’t find that efficient for me (e.g. I would never ever want to use the same finger for two different keys in succession, that feels maddeningly slow).
- tutfbhuf 6y agoWhat's your WPM?
- thom 6y agoOn the Moonlander I think I’m back up to about 80 with at least 95% accuracy (at lot of those issues are me trying to combine space and shift in a multifunction key). That’s on normal text. Previously I was reliably above 100WPM, but I’ll keep at it. Honestly it’s less that so much as the sense of flinching whenever I open up a terminal and have to do something complex. Much of that is muscle memory obviously, but for example the X-Bows I just think is irreparably bad for coding or terminal use. There’s just too much for a programmer’s right pinkie to do in many of these layouts, I find. I will admit my previous style probably wasn’t great, in that I’d mostly use pinkies for just shift, enter and caps-as-ctrl, thumbs for space and alt, and the remaining six free ranging as you would on a piano. Acknowledging this might not be good for long term joint health was part of the reason to evaluate something new, but I didn’t have any specific issues beyond bad alt placement.