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Mechanical Keyboards

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Are you addicted to the clicking sounds of your beautiful and impressive mechanical keyboard?
If so, this community is for you!

Here you can discuss everything about mechanical keyboards (and only mechanical keyboards).

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Anyone else have one? I've been loving it so far! Feels great!

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[–] richard_wagner 4 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I have one of these split keyboards and still use a mouse. I’d like to use it less, but haven’t found any great alternatives to fully remove it. 

[–] kmkz_ninja 2 points 10 months ago (3 children)

It seems like it would be really awkward to use one-handed. I know for gaming you wouldn't exactly need the right-hand side, but still.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I don't get it, you keep your hand on the mouse to reach the right side of the keyboard with your left hand(assuming you're right handed)? THAT would be awkward imo

[–] kmkz_ninja 2 points 9 months ago

Don't think I'm shitting on polydactyl keyboards. Maybe I'd like it.

But they're two non-interlocking pieces. Idk, I'd like to be able to try one without committing to buying one.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago (1 children)

What are you doing with your keyboard one-handed? I can't think of any real use for one hand on a keyboard aside from gaming and shortcuts like copy+paste. And this keyboard runs QMK so it's very easy to just remap any shortcuts that the split might make difficult.

[–] kmkz_ninja 1 points 9 months ago (1 children)

😉

But also, I don't like relying on hotkeys for usability.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago (1 children)

So what are you doing one-handed if not using hotkeys? I feel like any amount of one-handed typing would be impractical whether the keyboard is split or not.

[–] kmkz_ninja 1 points 9 months ago

Typing one handed? That is not weird in the context of a strange two-part keyboard.

[–] richard_wagner 2 points 10 months ago

I don’t use it one-handed. I use two hands and take one away when I need to use the mouse.