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For me the issue is typing is automatic. If I am a "conscientious typist" and I am actively/awarely concentrating on my fingers with MX browns I move my finger
by ben7799 6y ago
For me the issue is typing is automatic.
If I am a "conscientious typist" and I am actively/awarely concentrating on my fingers with MX browns I move my fingers with smaller travel and just go a little past the tactile bump and I'm fine.
But as soon as I'm concentrating more on code, or trying to type fast, or under stress I start hitting the keys more quitckly and forcefully and I hit the bottom stop and that's when the keys start causing RSI type forces to build up.
I don't have to be conscientious with most other types of switches. Theres something different about the feedback cycle and for me almost anything provides better feedback than the mechanical switches.
- ziml77 6y agoI think that's most of us. People who can stop after the bump certainly have trained in that way of typing, possibly even learned it that way from the start.
- ben7799 6y agoInterestingly I'm old enough that I learned to type on buckling spring type keyboards. But back when I was learning no one ever even discussed any of this stuff. I didn't meet the first person I knew with RSI till I got out of college. My first manager out of college had a bad case of it and she had all kinds of keyboards she was always trying to alleviate pain.
- vladvasiliu 6y agoI think it's a question of habit. I use both membrane and Gateron brown switches, one or the other for longer periods of time, and I find that I tend to get used to the lighter force needed for the mechanical, to the point that for a while, when getting back to membrane, I miss keys.