Looks great, that first step to split and columnar stagger is the most important for reducing wrist pain in my experience. My first split columnar was the redox, but these days I mostly use corne and humla, although the thumb key positions on these do not suit everyone.
ErgoMechKeyboards
Ergonomic, split and other weird keyboards
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Posts must be of/about keyboards that have a clear delineation between the left and right halves of the keyboard, column stagger, or both. This includes one-handed (one half doesn't exist, what clearer delineation is that!?)
i.e. no regular non-split¹ row-stagger and no non-split¹ ortholinear²
¹ split meaning a separation of the halves, whether fixed in place or entirely separate, both are fine.
² ortholinear meaning keys layed out in a grid
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Some useful links
- EMK wiki
- Split keyboard compare tool
- Compare keycap profiles Looking for another set of keycaps - check this site to compare the different keycap profiles https://www.keycaps.info/
- Keymap database A database with all kinds of keymap layouts - some of them fits ergo keyboards - get inspired https://keymapdb.com/
Using an ergo keyboard (ultimately my own design, but starting with a Kinesis) has really helped my wrist pain. I ended up making sure portability was part of my design, because I found that using my laptop, even for a fairly short period of time, makes the wrist pain start to come back.
Bit of a too open question. I’d recommend sticking with this board for a couple of months (looks portable enough to take to the office) and see if you maybe wanna try less keys or maybe sculpted (dactyl-style), different stagger, tenting, etc, for your next build. Also, you probably have hotswap on this one, so you could experiment with switches for that next build already.
Repetitive strain injury veteran of 25 years here, personally I love my cleave keyboard from truly economic (https://www.trulyergonomic.com) but still have to do most of my typing through speech recognition (dragon).
High quality post. Looks nice. I have a Ergodox EZ since a year or so, and I'm still getting used to it
What did you bind to your blank keys?
From left to right: LGUI - Del - OSM LCtrl
Del - Enter - Space
I like the tactile home row idea. What are the keycaps?
The keycap is Akko 9009 in ASA profile. Blanks are random keycaps I can find, turned upside down so they cannot hurt my thumbs.