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Does anyone actually use a 60% or less for programming work? (lemmy.world)

submitted 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) by rishado@lemmy.world to c/mechanicalkeyboards@lemmy.ml

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I'm more interested if any of you actually do work on a 60% or below, I see a lot of 40s and a lot of lemmings are devs so do you guys use that for personal or work? No arrow keys? F keys? Home/end? Are you really holding shift+fn+d for end?

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[–] MrScottyTay@sh.itjust.works 2 points 2 weeks ago

I have a 36 key split keyboard. Smaller keyboards usually have thumb clusters so your thumbs can do more than just press space and that means having extra "shift-like" layers at your thumbtips. You can have these layers be one shots, holds, toggles. Whatever is best for you. And that's what's so good about the custom keyboard shit, you can make it work exactly for you.

My thumb keys are backspace, shift, space and enter with an extra two for two separate layers. One is symbols and numbers, with me putting the more common programming symbols where my fingers lie naturally, and the other is navigation and function keys. It's great.

I'm now much more productive as beforehand a standard fill size qwerty keyboard for the amount of work I did was starting to do damage to my hands. I don't get as much pain anymore now that I've downsized and no longer need to stretch my fingers out to hit ; = / () and the like