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Jess Lee
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What's your keyboard layout?

This question comes up every now and then but it's always fun to see the different custom layouts people use!

My friend Chris has been building out their new keyboard and shared this WIP pic with me:

purple and white mechanical keyboard with very few keys

keyboard layout

Full layout shared here.

I think it's PRETTY WILD that they'll be pressing two keys at once to access some basic letters from the alphabet. 🤯

Outside of dvorak to help with carpal tunnel, I've never really considered straying out of QWERTY. I've always wanted to get smarter/more efficient with my layering use, but also never got around to doing that. I have a pretty underutilized ErgoDox, but the split keyboard has immensely helped me with my previous pains so a win no matter what!

Anyway, would love to see other layouts if anyone feels like sharing!

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Jhinel Arcaya

Your friend's layout looks amazing!

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Kartikey Tanna

The splits have helped me overcome pain and gain better posture too! :)

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Kartikey Tanna

I use split too. Here is my layout:
github.com/tannakartikey/zmk-confi...

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Paulo Henrique

Once I got an Apple keyboard I never changed it, everything else seems heavy or noisy

Even the ABNT2 keyboard type, better for Portuguese language, seems weird if I need to use