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cloudedsky OP t1_jd9qtpi wrote

Reply to comment by NoOne-NBA- in ID75v3 Daily Driver. It's a keeper! by cloudedsky

Wow, this is actually really cool and something I might want to mess around with. Definitely going to hop on the configurator tonight and give it a try!

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NoOne-NBA- t1_jd9zx5f wrote

It's at least worth giving it a shot.
Worst case, you don't like it, or can't get used to it, and you have to put it back afterwards.

Here's the sister board to that one, I designed for home use.
The numpad is pushed all the way over to the right on that one because that's where it's most comfortable for me, while gaming.

It's funny though, because I've gotten so used to my work board that having to move my hand over four whole keys, to use the numpad, is annoying to me now.
I'm actually working on altering my layout, at the moment.
I want to make my home board a split alpha, like yours, so I can avoid that (relatively minor) hand movement.

https://preview.redd.it/8wpmocullepa1.jpeg?width=1226&format=pjpg&auto=webp&v=enabled&s=6c75d3962902cf08954585916ecfdc9f3de35939

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pvtparts t1_jdb01cs wrote

Definitely look into Miryoku while you are at it. Changed how I think about keyboards.

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NoOne-NBA- t1_jdd3pfy wrote

I looked into a bunch of the "more efficient" layouts, during the design phase for my boards.
I ultimately chose to keep my layouts as close to standard QWERTY as possible because I use other people's computers/keyboards quite frequently, and didn't want to deal with all the muscle memory issues switching layouts would create.

I think I would do really well with one of the more efficient layouts, if I were able to use it exclusively.
I can't do that though, and switching back and forth tanks my efficiency on both layouts.

Swapping layouts like that requires me to be constantly thinking about typing, which interferes with my ability to type while thinking, if that makes sense to you.

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pvtparts t1_jddwlod wrote

That's fair enough. I dunno, I'm not a huge typer but I've found there are enough places where I am "stuck" using QWERTY day-to-day that I never really lose it even though I'm typing on Miryoku Colemak-DH while at my home desk. For example, my phoe keyboard is QWERTY and I (for better or for worse) don't see that changing anytime soon.

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NoOne-NBA- t1_jde0odq wrote

You're not touch-typing on your phone though, nor are you transcribing things, so I'm not sure how big an impact the arrangement of the characters actually has.

By contrast, I type professionally, so I spend a lot of my time looking at the source material I'm entering, rather than watching what's coming up on the screen.
Having characters migrating around, on different keyboards, would play hell with that.

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pvtparts t1_jdf2awm wrote

Not touch typing, but still thinking in QWERTY daily. You may surprise yourself is all I'm saying. It's like people who learn another language, generally they are OK with switching between them, just not super rapidly.

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