First they came for my tenkey, and I was silent. Then they came for the regular number row…
numbers on home row, right space holds for numbers layer. nav layer has ten key on wasd block. I can see how this seems uncomfortable at first glance, but I am typing faster without having to move away from the home row.
Are you one of those vim elitist?
Nah, I just use what I’m most productive with. (Which happens to be vi*)
The lack of a Tab key is a radical political statement
Haha not sure what statement that is, mind to elaborate? I’m intrigued.
Tab is on ESC with space as modifier. I rarely use Tab, indention is mapped to leader + < or > in vi*.
An eternal argument by programmers about whether to use tabs or spaces to indent code, because across editors, a Tab is a single character and may show up differently than multiple spaces. Spaces, though, take longer to enter which others see as a was off time and energy. Needing to use a modifier to access Tab is not for me. It saves so much time in bash.
I’m sorry man, it looks cool, but I would absolutely hate using that
No worries, 40s are personal preference.
Most beautiful keyboard I’ve ever seen
What keycaps are those? They’re clean!
Love the color on that board!
It is most certainly a decision and I bet you vi faster than me.
That’s the worst keyboard I’ve seen yet.
Why though? :)
It’s missing essential keys or hides them unnecessarily behind modifiers. Some keys are in odd places (FN). On the other hand there are two space keys without good reason.
But the worst thing: it’s a wired keyboard. Which means it’s being used on a desk, which means there’s enough space to have all keys.
It’s just stupid. Some people like stuff others deem stupid and that’s completely okay. I don’t have to buy it, I don’t have to like it. But omg is this a stupid, stupid keyboard. For the sake of stupidity.
FN is rarely used I have the function and media keys on that layer. It’s deliberately there bc of the little use I make of it.
All my modifiers are at my thumbs, holding left space bar jumps to nav layer for hjkl as arrows and some other nav keys, holding right space jumps to my symbol/number layer.
Here’s some similar layer setup on an ortho linear: https://ibb.co/SPqBvHM
It’s not about real estate, if I would be devils advocate here, why have a shift key or why have ctrl key if you could have capital letters as separate keys? Or all of your symbols in extra keys to your numbers? It’s all about low travel with your fingers, I rarely mistype bc I dont have to aim for a key that’s far away, and I can customize the layout however I need it.
I’d encourage you to try some leaner layouts for a while, maybe you find out it’s not stupid after all.
Thank you for explaining me how these weird keyboards are used. Very interesting even if I’m too old and not clever enough to even feel the necessity to try it.
Wait til you see my keyboards then lol
