After developing wrist issues and plateauing at 65 WPM on traditional keyboards, I decided it was time to improve my typing form. My technique had always been a hybrid of touch typing and hunt-and-peck, heavily favoring my left hand while only using 2-3 fingers on my right.
Twenty plus years of ingrained typing habits needed a complete reset, and what better way than switching to an entirely new format? The ergonomic mechanical keyboard scene had caught my eye since college, which led me to the 42-key split Corne.
I opted for a pre-built model, and despite the current learning curve (hovering around 15 WPM), I couldn't be happier with the decision. The only minor issue is with the tenting stands I added - they tend to slide during pinky key presses. While I have a few spare double-sided adhesive pads to experiment with, I'm still working on finding the optimal tenting solution through trial and error.
Choc brown switches Sculpted keycaps ZMK firmware
Unfortunately, I'm already eyeing other ergo mechs like dactyl, totem, and the KLOR polydactyl but I'm going to try to restrain myself, at least for a few months 🤣
I switch between conventinal qwerty and colemak dh ortholinear on the daily! The different layouts is how I keep them apart :P
15wpm is great for 3 hours! At some point u gotta take the plunge, I used to switch back to qwerty for screensharing since I didn't want to make anybody watch me struggle to type one word for 10 seconds lol. But the sooner you start at work the sooner you will be comfortable with it. Maybe when you've unlocked all the letters on keybr :P
Keep it up, u got this.
Perfect, that's exactly what I'm going for.
Yeah I've been playing with it a bit at work today with my mappings printed outaround me. Noticing a few that I'm not in love with (mainly symbols and some hotkeys) going to try to adhear to the miryoku mantra of hotkeys alternating sides, as I find some of the defaults I need to move my whole hand to be inefficient.
Adding these rubber feet resolved all sliding, but I'm sure if I angled the kickstands properly the first go around that it would have worked as is
Pic incase someone runs into the same issue in the future: