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I love the idea and overall effort, but I really dislike the "push" nature of the top row for both fingers & thumb. Our fingers/thumbs are incredibly weak at o
by irjustin 5y ago
I love the idea and overall effort, but I really dislike the "push" nature of the top row for both fingers & thumb.
Our fingers/thumbs are incredibly weak at opening vs contracting. The actuation force of the top row would have to be very low compared to the other keys.
Thumb row, left/right movement is preferred over forward/back. It's actually why I dislike the Ergodox thumb cluster. Top row thumb buttons are out of reach and our thumbs aren't well suited to go up there. Better to put rarely used keys on a different layer.
My favorite out of the "kinesis like" so far is the Dactyl[0]. But dropping $400 just to "try it" is too tall for me.
[0] https://ohkeycaps.com/products/built-to-order-dactyl-manuform-keyboard https://ohkeycaps.com/products/built-to-order-dactyl-manufor...
- kortex 5y agoErgodox (zsa) actually just came out with a new model which revamps the thumb cluster. Looks much better for chording. https://www.zsa.io/moonlander https://www.zsa.io/moonlander
- thefunnyman 5y agoI have this and enjoy it quite a bit. The thumb cluster is nice, but the red keys and the bottom thumb keys are a bit of a reach for me when tented. Their software is pretty good though. It’s super easy to modify the layout.
- tekromancr 5y agoYou can get some manuform/manuform likes on eBay for a bit cheeper. I just ordered one from a fellow who seems to be just churning them out to test it. There always seems to be pretty reasonable demand for them, so I assume I could resell pretty quickly if I decide I dislike it
- raihansaputra 5y agoI agree. I wonder if it's better to have a two-stage bottom row, so one on 'light' pressure, and a second key on heavier. Or use a more traditional top row but somehow minimize the home row y-height so the top and bottom row can come closer.