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How much do you type a day to have problems? I have never felt limited by my typing speed or comfort during my career, but I understand that different people mi

by ahoka 3y ago

How much do you type a day to have problems? I have never felt limited by my typing speed or comfort during my career, but I understand that different people might have different workflows. For me it’s thinking, writing a few lines and start thinking again. One programmer guy I know who had RSI problems was actually writing way too much and overly verbose code and also literally banged on the keys instead of pressing them.

justapcgamer 3y ago
I think its just genetics, some people are more inclined to experience RSI due to structure of wrists. I'm 22 and I started experiencing wrist pain during college and found that split keyboards are the solution for me to be able to do my work without pain.
- toyg 3y ago
  Shoulders too. The wider the shoulders, the more awkward your posture becomes on fixed keyboards. Also length of legs, length of spine, etc etc.
onetom 3y ago
I'm 46, programming since I was 6 years old and started having wrist and even lower-arm pain ~2-3 years ago. Even the tips of my fingers hurt sometimes. I never would have imagined I will have such problems... It's probably the combination of many factors, probably age mostly, but I'm also experimenting with Emacs, with Ctrl being on Caps-Lock and I think that has triggered the problem. Thumb-tip pain is probably from the SpaceFn layout, but the other finger-tips, no idea. My main keyboard is a Leopold FC M660 with Cherry blues, but IIRC the problems has already started on a stock 60% Cherry MX with linear red switches. I've also experimented with vegetarian diet for 11 months, which fucked up my guts and ass, plus I always felt super tired, then a beef + potato only diet for 6 months, but that made my joints hurt. Pretty much caused gout, which is also supposed to be worsened by drinking high-fat milk, which I do drink about a liter a day, like I did most of my life. But then the problems has slowly subsided. Not sure what has changed though; I only got older...

by ahoka 3y ago

justapcgamer 3y ago

I think its just genetics, some people are more inclined to experience RSI due to structure of wrists. I'm 22 and I started experiencing wrist pain during college and found that split keyboards are the solution for me to be able to do my work without pain.

toyg 3y ago
Shoulders too. The wider the shoulders, the more awkward your posture becomes on fixed keyboards. Also length of legs, length of spine, etc etc.

onetom 3y ago

I'm 46, programming since I was 6 years old and started having wrist and even lower-arm pain ~2-3 years ago. Even the tips of my fingers hurt sometimes. I never would have imagined I will have such problems... It's probably the combination of many factors, probably age mostly, but I'm also experimenting with Emacs, with Ctrl being on Caps-Lock and I think that has triggered the problem. Thumb-tip pain is probably from the SpaceFn layout, but the other finger-tips, no idea. My main keyboard is a Leopold FC M660 with Cherry blues, but IIRC the problems has already started on a stock 60% Cherry MX with linear red switches. I've also experimented with vegetarian diet for 11 months, which fucked up my guts and ass, plus I always felt super tired, then a beef + potato only diet for 6 months, but that made my joints hurt. Pretty much caused gout, which is also supposed to be worsened by drinking high-fat milk, which I do drink about a liter a day, like I did most of my life. But then the problems has slowly subsided. Not sure what has changed though; I only got older...