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The Atreus keyboard by Keyboardio with Susuwatari key caps made by Drop.com.
This is my current daily driver as a full time developer. I was happy with the default setup but had to switch a few things around due to using Colemak-DH layout. Some of the thumb keys had to be placed upside down due to the MT3 profile being angled too extreme for comfort with this layout. The original keyboard came with XDA profile keycaps. I’ll be returning to the original keycaps once I finish building a different split ergo keyboard.
How do you get yourself to learn a new keyboard format after years of typing with qwerty?
I've looked at some of these alternate options and i can see how they'd be efficient, but like, i can't see myself unlearning qwerty after decades of typing every day.
For me, it only took me about three months to get to about 70wpm on this layout.
My motivation was a bit different than just learning it for ergonomics though. I never learned how to touch type on qwerty. I use this janky peck typing style with only my index and middle fingers, with my thumb for space and pinky for shift and ctrl.
I discovered the split ergo community after a bit of a dive into the mech keyboard world. I knew that split keyboards wouldn’t work for my typing style so I needed to learn how to touch type. I figured, well, might as well learn an alternative layout at the same time.
Learning an alternative layout is mostly just for the feels. The consensus seems to be that you don’t really type faster on colemak or whatever vs qwerty. Some people do. YMMV. If you’re interested, you should just try it out and see how it feels! No harm no foul
Ahhh, okay, that makes sense. I can see where there might be demand for a more efficient layout as you're getting away from looking and poking. Probably a lot easier to get there if you don't have a couple decades and some change of qwerty typing taking up brain space.