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I own or have owned several of these. The Kinesis Advantage 2 is the only one I regularly recommend. It's very expensive, but also refined, thoroughly tested,
by kemitchell 6y ago
I own or have owned several of these. The Kinesis Advantage 2 is the only one I regularly recommend. It's very expensive, but also refined, thoroughly tested, and highly customizable.
It did not take me long to adjust. I'm now as fast on the Advantage as on any mechanical standard.
- pimlottc 6y agoI’ve got one as well but I haven’t quite managed to make the switch. The normal keys are no problem, but what keeps me from using it full time is all the special keys, i.e navigation (arrows/home/end/etc) and shortcuts (command/option/ctrl). I’m used to flying through editors by muscle memory so it feels quite painful to stumble on the new keyboard. Half the time I have to look at the old keyboard just to figure out what the actual keys I wanted are. Any suggestions to get over the hump? I’ve tried some typing games like Epistory but they normally focus on normal keys. I haven’t see one for these special keys.
- kemitchell 6y agoI use a lot of keyboard shortcuts. I can share what worked for me. Remap CapsLock to Windows/Super. Mirror Ctrl and Alt from the left thumb cluster onto the right thumb cluster, so you have Ctrl and Alt in reach of each thumb. Don't be afraid to customize special keys and punctuation. Especially that big Delete key under your left thumb. That's prime real estate. If you have larger hands, buy some of the stick-on palm rest pads. They'll help bring your wrists to the right angles.