(re)learning to type tl;dr: It’s been around 6 weeks using an ergonomic split keyboard. Inspired by Peter’s blog post about his experiences in changing to a split keyboard (and alternative keyboard layouts), I wanted to share bit of my own journey of using an ergonomic split keyboard: As part of the “elder millennials”,...

Inspired by @pjacock, I've also written up a bit about my #SplitMechanicalKeyboard journey!

https://tzovar.as/split-keyboard/

A good three weeks later I'm up to ~82 WPM on the split keyboard, at least for regular text, finding symbols and shortcuts is still a bit slower!

#ergokeyboard #keyboard #SplitMechanicalKeyboard

a screenshot of a touch typing website, it shows all letter keys in green, saying they are unlocked. also states that the accuracy streak is one lesson with 97% accuracy and 3 lessons with 95% accuracy. Metrics say: Speed 72.5 wpm, Accuracy 98.36%

Slowly getting there, at least for the letter keys I've seen to update my muscle memory quite well!

Doing any shortcuts and moving around is still less ingrained, despite having put movements on a vim-style hjkl -based layer.

#keyboard #ergonomics #SplitMechanicalKeyboard

Two halves of a grey split ergonomic mechanical keyboard. Left half is bare, a naked plate. Right halve has keys in beige, gray and blue.

I'm crushed. The left half of my lily58 ergo mech keyboard started flaking out yesterday. Once plugged in it types 5tgb and then those keys go dead. I'm thinking a short.

It's a boardsource.xyz buy, not quite a year old. I'm going to reach out but any […]

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What does it take to build a split mechanical keyboard from scratch?

Any help or suggested articles would be great.

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