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I was actually wondering how often people do this. Did you do this because of some kind of injury or in pursuit of ergonomics / out of curiosity? If the latt

I was actually wondering how often people do this. Did you do this because of some kind of injury or in pursuit of ergonomics / out of curiosity? If the latter, how would you say this affected your workflow? In terms of typing speed, overall enjoyment, fatigue, or any other metric of productivity or comfort?

dkersten 5y ago
I use a foot pedal with my Kinesis Advantage2. I use one pedal for the Advantage's Fn layer and one for shift. I don't use the Fn layer that much (mainly to reach ESC or use the numpad), but of course I use shift a lot. I did it for ergonomics and love it, would never go back. Although sometimes I get lazy and don't use it, especially if I'm tired or just messing around (as opposed to working). There's a third pedal too but I've never mapped it to anything. Even after a few years, I haven't found anything I wanted to use it for. Maybe something like Control would be good, but I've got that on a thumb cluster button so its not really necessary.
1-more 5y ago
Kind of curiosity. I wanted to give it a shot because the keys in the bottom corner of the keyboard were, I felt, kind of wasted since they are kind of hard to reach. But I don't always keep my feet in the same place so moving my whole foot back into position to hit shift was a little ridiculous. And I ended up with redundant command keys elsewhere on the keyboard that I used way more often. So it wasn't a huge win for me tbqh. All of that was on a Let's Split[0] which is a split keyboard where each side is a 4x6 grid. I liked it pretty well but I knew I wanted to try a vertical stagger so I changed to an Iris[1]. Since the two halves are connected over I2C I thought I could maybe add a "third half" with a bunch of pedals connected, but I kind of lost interest when I found that just using my hands was so much more pleasant with this keyboard. [0] https://keeb.io/products/levinson-lets-split-w-led-backlight https://keeb.io/products/levinson-lets-split-w-led-backlight [1] https://keeb.io/collections/frontpage/products/iris-keyboard-split-ergonomic-keyboard https://keeb.io/collections/frontpage/products/iris-keyboard...

dkersten 5y ago

I use a foot pedal with my Kinesis Advantage2. I use one pedal for the Advantage's Fn layer and one for shift. I don't use the Fn layer that much (mainly to reach ESC or use the numpad), but of course I use shift a lot. I did it for ergonomics and love it, would never go back. Although sometimes I get lazy and don't use it, especially if I'm tired or just messing around (as opposed to working). There's a third pedal too but I've never mapped it to anything. Even after a few years, I haven't found anything I wanted to use it for. Maybe something like Control would be good, but I've got that on a thumb cluster button so its not really necessary.

1-more 5y ago

Kind of curiosity. I wanted to give it a shot because the keys in the bottom corner of the keyboard were, I felt, kind of wasted since they are kind of hard to reach. But I don't always keep my feet in the same place so moving my whole foot back into position to hit shift was a little ridiculous. And I ended up with redundant command keys elsewhere on the keyboard that I used way more often. So it wasn't a huge win for me tbqh. All of that was on a Let's Split[0] which is a split keyboard where each side is a 4x6 grid. I liked it pretty well but I knew I wanted to try a vertical stagger so I changed to an Iris[1]. Since the two halves are connected over I2C I thought I could maybe add a "third half" with a bunch of pedals connected, but I kind of lost interest when I found that just using my hands was so much more pleasant with this keyboard. [0] https://keeb.io/products/levinson-lets-split-w-led-backlight https://keeb.io/products/levinson-lets-split-w-led-backlight [1] https://keeb.io/collections/frontpage/products/iris-keyboard-split-ergonomic-keyboard https://keeb.io/collections/frontpage/products/iris-keyboard...