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Switching to a split keyboard isn’t instant for most people.

But when it does click… it really clicks, and there's no going back. ⌨️✨

What was your experience like? Was it instant comfort or a slow transition?

#UHK #splitkeyboard #ergonomics #mechanicalkeyboards #typingexperience

And the full thing

#avalanchev4 #customkeyboard #keyboard #qmk #colemak #splitkeyboard

finally popped dark magician on my keeb 💜. and swapped out switches with some extra sp star magical girls and neapolitan ice creams. i like having my sofle cause i can more easily fill the board with switches and not feel like i need to drop money on a full 100 switches. the two different switches compliment each other nicely, so ive got the magical girls on the main typing rows and the neapolitans around the perimeter

#keyboards #mechanicalkeyboard #splitkeyboard #yugioh

https://www.europesays.com/ie/477996/ Keychron launches Q11 Ultra with 8kHz polling #8khz #Éire #IE #Ireland #keychron #MechanicalKeyboard #News #peripheral #Q11Ultra #SplitKeyboard #Technology #Wireless

The new displays for my Corne-ish Zen have arrived. I've had it for over three years, and everything is still working great, except for these two sunlight-phobic vampires ⌨️ :neofox_bongo:

#keyboard #keyboards #ErgonomicKeyboards #splitKeyboard #SplitKeyboards

The new displays for my Corne-ish Zen have arrived. I've had it for over three years, and everything is still working great, except for these two sunlight-phobic vampires ⌨️ :neofox_bongo:

#keyboard #keyboards #ErgonomicKeyboards #splitKeyboard #SplitKeyboards

The new displays for my Corne-ish Zen have arrived. I've had it for over three years, and everything is still working great, except for these two sunlight-phobic vampires ⌨️ :neofox_bongo:

#keyboard #keyboards #ErgonomicKeyboards #splitKeyboard #SplitKeyboards

The new displays for my Corne-ish Zen have arrived. I've had it for over three years, and everything is still working great, except for these two sunlight-phobic vampires ⌨️ :neofox_bongo:

#keyboard #keyboards #ErgonomicKeyboards #splitKeyboard #SplitKeyboards

The new displays for my Corne-ish Zen have arrived. I've had it for over three years, and everything is still working great, except for these two sunlight-phobic vampires ⌨️ :neofox_bongo:

#keyboard #keyboards #ErgonomicKeyboards #splitKeyboard #SplitKeyboards

Is it just me, or once you start using row modifiers, is hard to go back to a classic layout?

#mechanicalkeyboard #splitkeyboard #SplitKeyboards

Is it just me, or once you start using row modifiers, is hard to go back to a classic layout?

#mechanicalkeyboard #splitkeyboard #SplitKeyboards

Is it just me, or once you start using row modifiers, is hard to go back to a classic layout?

#mechanicalkeyboard #splitkeyboard #SplitKeyboards

Is it just me, or once you start using row modifiers, is hard to go back to a classic layout?

#mechanicalkeyboard #splitkeyboard #SplitKeyboards

Is it just me, or once you start using row modifiers, is hard to go back to a classic layout?

#mechanicalkeyboard #splitkeyboard #SplitKeyboards

Do people type on split keyboards?

Are they easy to use?

Is a split keyboard a good thing?

Split keyboard makes me feel queasy.

#SplitKeyboard

I made another #ErgoMechKeyboard, taking the ribbon cable idea for my Bivouac34, and the 32-key layout and a 5-way navigation button from my Bivvy16D #SplitKeyboard. This is my Goldilocks32 #MechanicalKeyboard - another diode-free design with a #GraphTheory based sparse scanning matrix https://astrobeano.blogspot.com/2026/03/goldilocks-30-to-32-key-keyboard.html

I made another #ErgoMechKeyboard, taking the ribbon cable idea for my Bivouac34, and the 32-key layout and a 5-way navigation button from my Bivvy16D #SplitKeyboard. This is my Goldilocks32 #MechanicalKeyboard - another diode-free design with a #GraphTheory based sparse scanning matrix https://astrobeano.blogspot.com/2026/03/goldilocks-30-to-32-key-keyboard.html

When using Blender I’d like to keep my right hand on the pointing device (pen or mouse) and the other on the keyboard.

But I use a steeply tented split keyboard, and a few keys I need regularly are on the right half; with a flat keyboard I’d reach over to the other half, but because of the almost 90° tenting this is difficult and slow.

I think I will try solving this issue by making one key flip the two halves (temporarily).

What do you think, how would you approach this problem?

#blender #blender3D #b3d #mechanicalKeyboard #mkb #splitKeyboard #ZMK #QMK

When using Blender I’d like to keep my right hand on the pointing device (pen or mouse) and the other on the keyboard.

But I use a steeply tented split keyboard, and a few keys I need regularly are on the right half; with a flat keyboard I’d reach over to the other half, but because of the almost 90° tenting this is difficult and slow.

I think I will try solving this issue by making one key flip the two halves (temporarily).

What do you think, how would you approach this problem?

#blender #blender3D #b3d #mechanicalKeyboard #mkb #splitKeyboard #ZMK #QMK

When using Blender I’d like to keep my right hand on the pointing device (pen or mouse) and the other on the keyboard.

But I use a steeply tented split keyboard, and a few keys I need regularly are on the right half; with a flat keyboard I’d reach over to the other half, but because of the almost 90° tenting this is difficult and slow.

I think I will try solving this issue by making one key flip the two halves (temporarily).

What do you think, how would you approach this problem?

#blender #blender3D #b3d #mechanicalKeyboard #mkb #splitKeyboard #ZMK #QMK

When using Blender I’d like to keep my right hand on the pointing device (pen or mouse) and the other on the keyboard.

But I use a steeply tented split keyboard, and a few keys I need regularly are on the right half; with a flat keyboard I’d reach over to the other half, but because of the almost 90° tenting this is difficult and slow.

I think I will try solving this issue by making one key flip the two halves (temporarily).

What do you think, how would you approach this problem?

#blender #blender3D #b3d #mechanicalKeyboard #mkb #splitKeyboard #ZMK #QMK

When using Blender I’d like to keep my right hand on the pointing device (pen or mouse) and the other on the keyboard.

But I use a steeply tented split keyboard, and a few keys I need regularly are on the right half; with a flat keyboard I’d reach over to the other half, but because of the almost 90° tenting this is difficult and slow.

I think I will try solving this issue by making one key flip the two halves (temporarily).

What do you think, how would you approach this problem?

#blender #blender3D #b3d #mechanicalKeyboard #mkb #splitKeyboard #ZMK #QMK

RE: https://mastodon.social/@AccordionBruce/116058449786188674

Team #SplitKeyboard was already going strong in 1850

@mwichary
Was that Wheatstone #SplitKeyboard a prototype for an upgrade to his beautiful ABC alphabetical telegraph?

Might have given it an “ease of use” chance against Morse’s code

But the need for multiple copper wires in Wheatstone & co’s systems cost more

https://collection.sciencemuseumgroup.org.uk/objects/co33456/wheatstone-military-telegraph-1840-telegraph
#MechanicalKeyboard

@anders
Depends what features you want. The Dygma boards have great tenting. Glove80 and Advantage360 or things like the Bastard or Cyboard have keywells

Many things can be found in DIY kits or the maker scene.
Kinesis may make the best Microsoft Natural copycat. Goldtouch is perhaps the most affordable entry-level board with above average tenting, but limited split

Moonlander and Dygma can argue with others about who has the easiest or best software
#SplitKeyboard #MechanicalKeyboard

@jarek
I got used to a $50 Goldtouch board, little knowing that the replacement with features I wanted would be a $500 Dygma
#SplitKeyboard

Prototype of a split keyboard from around 1850 made by Sir Charles Wheatstone, inventor of the English concertina! 🪗

@mwichary’s Shift Happens, pg 774

#MechanicalKeyboard #SplitKeyboard
#accordion #concertina

Для ценителей клавиатур раздельных и моносплитов всяческих
Ребята из ЕргоХавен(не люблю эту компанию, но объективно могу сказать что делают хорошо) сделали Трекбол под сплиты и моносплиты.
Когда будет в релизе не понятно, только предзаказ.
Но Майор предзаказал. Расскажу потом, что и как.
Успел на предзаказ дешевле чем он стоит сейчас хе/хе
#trackball #splitkeyboard

Mixed news on my current #MechanicalKeyboard project - certainly a learning experience 😅

Good news: I have the wired #SplitKeyboard working (currently on #QMK firmware with Vial). Early days but seems comfy.

Mixed news: #ZMK firmware was working last night, but I broke the build somehow while tidying up my changes.

Bad news: it has been 0 days since the last #TRRS cable short circuit issue (a known issue but these remain a default low-tech way of linking two halves of a split keyboard). You get a scary warning on macOS about excessive current drain, and that the USB has been disabled untill removed and reconnected (or rebooted?)

Nach rund vier Jahren mit meiner mechanischen Tastatur (Lily58) habe ich heute erstmals die ALT-Taste benötigt – und bemerkt, dass sie noch gar nicht konfiguriert war. Das habe ich inzwischen behoben.

Übrigens sind mechanische Tastaturen mit QMK wirklich hervorragend und für alle, die Spaß am Customizen haben, sehr zu empfehlen.

Hier ist meine Keymap:

https://github.com/mikebarkmin/qmk_firmware/blob/development/keyboards/lily58/keymaps/mikebarkmin/keymap.c

#qmk #keyboard #splitkeyboard

OK they’re portable and flexible to get the most comfortable angles, but a DIY split #ErgoMechKeyboard has it’s downsides!

There’s Bluetooth pairing or janky cables to worry about (TRRS has a short circuit risk), two controllers to solder, trickier firmware, etc.

But what prompted this was the much higher risk of knocking one half off your desk! Only realised today, but when I chipped the corner of my Forager based keyboard this also looks to have broken the tiny #SeeedXiao reset button. That in turn leaves me no easy way to reflash the keyboard when my new #ZMK firmware isn’t working 😱

All in all, a mono body #MechanicalKeyboard with a split layout at a comfy angle seems like a safer bet for me… #SplitKeyboard

Regarding the other unfinished #MechanicalKeyboard on my desk: The TRRS sockets to finish soldering up this #ErgoMechKeyboard should arrive today - but I’ve only just noticed the 3.5mm cable I planned to use that came with my Corne #SplitKeyboard has only theee wires (like a standard headphone jack). This needs four wires for full duplex communication - so another delay waiting on parts 🤦‍♂️

Finally got the 2B art on my Neodox board! The original art is by vovovov https://pixeljoint.com/pixelart/114046.htm
I converted it to black and white and added back details, took hours because I haven't done pixel art in ages, making something distinct for 128x32 is a good challenge though #splitkeyboard

Regular keyboards are familiar and easy to use, but often push hands inward ⚠️.

Split keyboards separate the halves, for natural arm/wrist alignment and better comfort. Customizable to fit your style.✨

Different needs call for different solutions — UHK is giving you both worlds.

#ErgonomicKeyboard #SplitKeyboard #TypingComfort #MechanicalKeyboard #WorkSmart

Regular keyboards are familiar and easy to use, but often push hands inward ⚠️.

Split keyboards separate the halves, for natural arm/wrist alignment and better comfort. Customizable to fit your style.✨

Different needs call for different solutions — UHK is giving you both worlds.

#ErgonomicKeyboard #SplitKeyboard #TypingComfort #MechanicalKeyboard #WorkSmart

Regular keyboards are familiar and easy to use, but often push hands inward ⚠️.

Split keyboards separate the halves, for natural arm/wrist alignment and better comfort. Customizable to fit your style.✨

Different needs call for different solutions — UHK is giving you both worlds.

#ErgonomicKeyboard #SplitKeyboard #TypingComfort #MechanicalKeyboard #WorkSmart

Regular keyboards are familiar and easy to use, but often push hands inward ⚠️.

Split keyboards separate the halves, for natural arm/wrist alignment and better comfort. Customizable to fit your style.✨

Different needs call for different solutions — UHK is giving you both worlds.

#ErgonomicKeyboard #SplitKeyboard #TypingComfort #MechanicalKeyboard #WorkSmart

Me he comprado un #splitkeyboard y me faltan teckas.

Tienen pinta de que voy a.tardar en acostumbrarme.

Pido perdon por adelantado por las falras de otrograia

Split Keyboards

When someone offers you a split ergonomic keyboard, it is important to politely, but firmly decline.

Once you get exposed to these keyboards, they will forever spoil traditional rectangular keyboards for you. You will never be the same.

Save yourself! You have been warned!

Split Keyboards

When someone offers you a split ergonomic keyboard, it is important to politely, but firmly decline.

Once you get exposed to these keyboards, they will forever spoil traditional rectangular keyboards for you. You will never be the same.

Save yourself! You have been warned!

Got my first #splitkeyboard today and I’ve started putting the caps on. I bought them separately and I didn’t realize until that moment that a) I have to buy small keycaps for some of the special keys and b) my key chord muscle memory has to change drastically! Also how do you #emacs users do C-x on split keyboards? I used to press X with index finger (not touch typist) now I have to do it with ring finger I guess. It’s going to be an adventure.

Well, I think they're the same #keyboard! Here's mine!

#MechanicalKeyboard #boxswitches #NovelKeys #artisans #aliens #JackSkelleton #splitkeyboard

Well, I think they're the same #keyboard! Here's mine!

#MechanicalKeyboard #boxswitches #NovelKeys #artisans #aliens #JackSkelleton #splitkeyboard

Well, I think they're the same #keyboard! Here's mine!

#MechanicalKeyboard #boxswitches #NovelKeys #artisans #aliens #JackSkelleton #splitkeyboard

Well, I think they're the same #keyboard! Here's mine!

#MechanicalKeyboard #boxswitches #NovelKeys #artisans #aliens #JackSkelleton #splitkeyboard

Considering a #splitkeyboard. #Moonlander seems to get a lot of praise. What else should I put on my shortlist?

#keyboards #ergonomics

Split keyboard users - I need your help:

Love my Redox FT Low Profile, but still using a mouse is killing me. I have a zero-g Levus workstation-chair/bed so my keyboard rests on an incline.

What small trackball not requiring me to move my arms [too much] is available as an addon for keyboards like this? Bonus points if I can connect two since I'm fully ambidextrous and already use the mouse with whichever hand.

#SplitKeyboard #Trackball

C'est donc une addiction !
Mon 6eme clavier. Et mon 3éme Corne...
#splitkeyboard #clavierergo #crkbd #corne #typewriter

C'est donc une addiction !
Mon 6eme clavier. Et mon 3éme Corne...
#splitkeyboard #clavierergo #crkbd #corne #typewriter