Looking for some testimonials on these setups as I’m due for a keyboard upgrade. I like the thought of spreading my arms a bit more and the external wrist rotation from the tenting. Any suggestions?

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    2 years ago

    I imagine a split keyboard requires you to at least type properly?

    I’m a software engineer with wrist issues, and would love to use an ergonomic keyboard, but I never really learned to type properly. I often have my hands overlapping the opposite sides of the keyboard. I’ll use all finger on my hands, but mainly it’s my pointer, middle, and ring finger doing the typing. I feel like this would be impossible on a split kayboard, and would take a crazy amount of time to get back up to speed typing properly.

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      2 years ago

      The way to learn to touchtype is simple but annoying. Figure out how to hit backspace every time.

      From here all you do is never look down. You hit the wrong key? Backspace. Try again. You can look at the keyboard sometimes, but not while typing.

      It will take a while but eventually your error rate drops very quickly and you are good.

      This process works very well on split keyboards.