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It's only missing the extra pinky column for my preferences (6 keys), but I know plenty of programmers who love layouts like this (see CRKBD/Corne 5x3)

JKCalhoun 4y ago
Did I miss the space bar?
- WesleyLivesay 4y ago
  Probably one of the thumb buttons that are dark blue.
- JohnTHaller 4y ago
  And the enter key. I'm betting on key combos for them.
  - micromacrofoot 4y ago
    nah usually they're the keys where your thumbs are and aren't hidden behind a layer because they're so commonly used... so the bottom left down arrow is the spacebar and the bottom right up arrow is enter
- mewse 4y ago
  It's pretty common to use one or both of the innermost thumb buttons on the bottom row as the space bar, for this style of keyboard (you often have to learn to partly ignore the labels on the keycaps, when your keyboard is this minimal). (I use both of the innermost thumb buttons as a space bar on my split keyboard, with the left one also acting as a layer shift which gives me arrow keys on hjkl while holding it down. If you're a vim user, this arrangement becomes second-nature startlingly quickly, I found) I'm on a 42-key keyboard; two 6x3 halves plus three thumb keys on each side. I would dearly love to try living with a (5x3+3)*2 keyboard for a week but I just can't see how I would replace the outside columns; I just need my tab, shift, control, and quote keys too much, and I'm pretty doubtful about the prospects of putting those keys onto separate layers or otherwise chording them. (backspace and enter are likely to be issues as well, although I could maybe adapt to ctrl-h and ctrl-m for those the same way I've adapted to ctrl-] for escape. And now that I've mentioned it, I could do tab on ctrl-T. So that brings down the number of extra keys I need to just shift, control, and quote. I guess I could do 'shift' with a hold of z or / and a tap of the opposite-side key to be capitalised. Not sure what I'd do about quote or enter, though.)

JKCalhoun 4y ago

Did I miss the space bar?

WesleyLivesay 4y ago
Probably one of the thumb buttons that are dark blue.
JohnTHaller 4y ago
And the enter key. I'm betting on key combos for them.
- micromacrofoot 4y ago
  nah usually they're the keys where your thumbs are and aren't hidden behind a layer because they're so commonly used... so the bottom left down arrow is the spacebar and the bottom right up arrow is enter
mewse 4y ago
It's pretty common to use one or both of the innermost thumb buttons on the bottom row as the space bar, for this style of keyboard (you often have to learn to partly ignore the labels on the keycaps, when your keyboard is this minimal). (I use both of the innermost thumb buttons as a space bar on my split keyboard, with the left one also acting as a layer shift which gives me arrow keys on hjkl while holding it down. If you're a vim user, this arrangement becomes second-nature startlingly quickly, I found) I'm on a 42-key keyboard; two 6x3 halves plus three thumb keys on each side. I would dearly love to try living with a (5x3+3)*2 keyboard for a week but I just can't see how I would replace the outside columns; I just need my tab, shift, control, and quote keys too much, and I'm pretty doubtful about the prospects of putting those keys onto separate layers or otherwise chording them. (backspace and enter are likely to be issues as well, although I could maybe adapt to ctrl-h and ctrl-m for those the same way I've adapted to ctrl-] for escape. And now that I've mentioned it, I could do tab on ctrl-T. So that brings down the number of extra keys I need to just shift, control, and quote. I guess I could do 'shift' with a hold of z or / and a tap of the opposite-side key to be capitalised. Not sure what I'd do about quote or enter, though.)