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by climb_stealth 1521 days ago
I have used this one before to practice typing on a split keyboard with chords. Never made it to proficiency but it worked well. It's nice to type out real code and not just random sentences.

The only downside that I found: At least for Python it didn't ask to type out the comments. So #'s were never practiced.
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SrZorro 1521 days ago
> split keyboard with chords.

Charachorder?

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climb_stealth 1521 days ago
Oh wow, the Charachorder looks pretty intense. But nope, it's a GergoPlex [0]. It's a nice piece of kit. I would still like to learn to type on it properly but it is different enough that it requires a fair bit of commitment. Maybe one day when I retire.

[0] https://www.gboards.ca/product/gergoplex

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SrZorro 1520 days ago
Im on the same boat with my Charachorder, it requires quite the commitment (they say 1 month to be at qwerty level training every day), but I found out that I have short thumbs and the Charachorder has 2 joysticks per thumb and I almost didn't reach the second joystick

For now goes to the box again and... Maybe one day when I retire

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climb_stealth 1520 days ago
Hah, I hear you. I'm not a fan of keyboards that require a lot of thumb work. It's not very comfortable to use I find.

If you are ever looking for something split that doesn't require much thumb work the GergoPlex is great. It's tiny and the keys are super light. Which is why it has simple chords across the columns where pressing two keys at once is mapped to things.

The learning curve is really the big downside.

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