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by hibikir 4105 days ago
They are very different ergonomically. A good friend of mine swears by it, but for me it was very uncomfortable. I have pretty broad shoulders, so my typing position in a MS split keyboard is very comfortable. The Kinesis wants my hands aligned with each other at a set distance. To do that I have to bend my wrists outward a whole lot, so they actually hurt after enough typing.

It'd make more sense to me if the keyboard was actually split in half, so that I can have the two wells be as far or as close from each other as I see fit, but as it is, the Kinesis is actually worse for my wrists than even a laptop keyboard.
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sooheon 4105 days ago
No experience with it, but I also fail to see why they need what looks like 750g of dead weight plastic just to hold the two sides rigidly parallel to each other. I thought their whole point was to have the keyboard conform to your body? I could also see wanting to put a trackpad or the like in between the halves.
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O____________O 4105 days ago
The Kinesis wants my hands aligned with each other at a set distance.

I just looked at my wrists and hands on my Kinesis. While, yes, the keys are aligned along a single axis[1], my wrists don't bend at all. It's not like you have to align your wrists with the keys, your fingers do the aligning.

[1] for the inner keys on each side. The outer columns are dropped down to accommodate the shorty pinky finger.

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