• Grass@sh.itjust.works
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      9 months ago

      This is just a random image from search but basically in a grid like this rather than Remington typewriter key positions. It’s a lot easier to use blind IMO and less hand cramp-y. I could never type with ‘proper’ or consistent hand and finger position until I switched. I also used shift weirdly.

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        9 months ago

        I always thought that term was ‘ortholinear’ - am also a fan and user of them, though mine are all splitsy in halfsies so that might be the difference…

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          9 months ago

          Yeah you are right it’s Ortho. I have made some split boards too but I do too much one hand typing and Cheetos in the other making single board easier

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            9 months ago

            Or god forbid you have a game that has a binding on the right hand side. Ugh. Yeah. Great for working though…

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              9 months ago

              Or when you want to remap to play a text chat heavy game on any non QWERTY layout and almost can but Q and E are hard mapped to menu tabbing and it feels awful and colemak at least splits them.

              Gboard version for people unfamiliar with it: Android side note: swipe/glide type gives me better results than qwerty but alt layouts on screen typing are otherwise cursed.

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        9 months ago

        Ah, that looks really weird to me, but then that is how Colemak looked when I was using QWERTY. Will read about them and see what their deal is.

        Thanks for the info!

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          9 months ago

          When you make a lot of diy keyboards you end up with a bunch of random symbols and duplicate keys and one keyboard will get all the odds and sods because keycaps are weirdly expensive. It’s not my photo but I’m fairly certain that is what is up. If you touch type for real they can have anything. I don’t know where I put it, but my keyboard has those really dished out caps with some selectively upside down to angle them the wrong way, and tab and shift etc is in the middle of the board. People that have tried to use my computer think I’m insane.