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I have a Moonlander and I have put off buying it for at least a year due to a same concern. It turned out to be not a concern. My hands seem to adapt to a norma

I have a Moonlander and I have put off buying it for at least a year due to a same concern. It turned out to be not a concern. My hands seem to adapt to a normal keyboard whenever I use it so I can switch between the two freely without much trouble.

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toxik 5y ago
This applies to typing Dvorak and Qwerty as well, you don’t really forget. It’s like dancing, you can learn salsa and foxtrot without losing the other. Addendum, for split keyboards there was no learning curve at all. Really you just put a hand on each split and that’s all there is to it.
- RamRodification 5y ago
  > for split keyboards there was no learning curve at all I'm guessing this is only true if your finger alignment matches with what you need for the split keyboard? I think a lot of people are used to using their right hand for some of the keys on the left side of the split and/or vice versa.
  - toxik 5y ago
    That’s a fair point, I was already a Dvorak typer when I got a split kbd which I think improved my typing technique. I’ve heard before that Qwerty encourages bad techniques.
sondr3 5y ago
Agreed, I spend about 70/15/15 of my time on my Moonlander, my laptop and a regular tenkeyless mechanical keyboard where my Moonlander is on Colemak mod-DH and the rest are QWERTY. I have no issues switching between them, which surprised me personally, I'm faster and a lot more accurate now with my Moonlander and find Colemak lots better than QWERTY, but given that I can't be bothered to fix the layout on my laptop I'll probably be decent at it as well for a long while.