Comment on Split Keyboards Are Superior And The Reason I’m The Writer I Am Today.

ExLisper@lemmy.curiana.net ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

• baldingpudenda@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  you can make a ferris sweep. you would just choose which side you’d want and setup your layout with QMK. If you want Bluetooth, just use the nice! Nano controller. A coworker built one. It’s tiny, about the size of your hand. He would also carry it around in his pockets and connect through USB to his phone for emails.

  The only problem is he customized the hell out of the layout. I think he used Colemak. His layers kinda looked like this:

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  He said he had trouble using regular keyboards after getting used to it. He always had to carry it around with him.

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  • ExLisper@lemmy.curiana.net ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Yeah, that’s a lot of work with tools I have no idea with. Definitely a fun project but I don’t have the time.

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• ripcord@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Aren’t there hundreds? Like this one? Or maybe I don’t know what you mean by “chord” keyboard, or you want more tiny?

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  • ExLisper@lemmy.curiana.net ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    A chord keyboard uses combinations of keys, like chords on a piano. You have fewer keys so you can type with one hand. I’m not 100% serious about it, learning curve would be horrendous. But it would be interesting to try. I used blackberry for a long time and I hate screen keyboards.

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  • AnarchistArtificer@slrpnk.net ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    (tangent to your question because someone already answered) I think that courtroom stenographers (people who type up what’s said) use special chording keyboards. I’ve also been to a few events where there has been someone transcribing things in real time for accessibility purposes, and they also use a cool looking chording keyboard. It takes some learning, but the max typing speed is way faster than any conventional keyboard could manage — which is why skilled people use them for transcribing stuff

    A brand that I’m aware of that does them is Charachorder.

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    • prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      There are also machines that type things in braille that I believe use chords. I dated this crazy girl who had one and it was actually really cool.

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• pirat@lemmy.studio ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I think someone was making something similar but was a two handed thing that attarched to magnetic hip clips.

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