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Pyramid Shaped Keyboard

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the hey-why-not dept.

Lordkolya wrote in to tell us about a pyramid shaped keyboard. It's supposed to be ergonomic, but it sure is ugly. I still need to try one of the Kinesis keyboards out. It's time for me to change keyboards again. I dunno if I can learn a new chording keyboard. I've tried a few one handed boards and had bad luck. Maybe I'm not destined to learn any more chords then E-A-D.

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  1. qwerty not designed to slow down by mj6798 · · Score: 1, Redundant

    The qwerty layout was designed to alternate keys between different parts of the keyboard (which reduces jamming on mechanical typewriters), not necessarily to slow typists down. Whether or not that kind of layout slows typists down is a separate question. In practice, even proponents of alternative layouts seem to have demonstrated only a very modest advantage of new layouts.