I’m genuinely just confused what the hype is with HHKB. It sounds just like a membrane but for 250 dollars. What the hell is the hype about?

  • Mandydeth@alien.topBEnglish
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    11 months ago

    Standard stagger turns your left wrist outward, as you ascend the rows, which is what creates ulnar deviation.

    No, that is present at any point on Ortholinear. Here’s some random images from Youtube videos: Even with the split ortho keyboard, ulnar deviation is present. For that to be avoided with an Ortholinear board, you would have to have inhumanly narrow shoulders.

    Ortho, with proper form, does not create this condition because there is no outward stagger to the keys forcing you to chase them.

    Unless your proper form is literally sticking your arms out in front of you like a stereotypical zombie, I don’t know how one could feasibly achieve this.

    There is no “less space from key to key” with ortho.

    There absolutely is and it is easily observable.

    You, by contrast, are trying to align your wrists to the keys themselves, which is terrible form for typing. That is why you have to uncomfortably compress yourself, and/or bend your wrists outward, to align to the keyboard.

    I’ve told you nothing about how I type, so any assumptions you are making here are based on something else.

    • NoOne-NBA-@alien.topBEnglish
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      11 months ago

      You’ve told me you have to compress your arms against your chest to use an ortho, and that you have blatant ulnar deviation while doing so.
      The only way those two add up, is if you are trying to keep your arms perpendicular to the keyboard rows.

      Here’s picture of my right arm, in typing position, on my Preonic.
      Notice that my wrist is straight, even though my arm is coming in at an angle.
      You can’t really tell from the overhead picture, but it is also straight vertically because I float my hands over the keyboard, like a pianist.

      https://preview.redd.it/8sz1ohe48j2c1.jpeg?width=1445&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=1ea2b450428307f9234aec6a9b1cdcb95807e91f

      As I told the other user above, the only thing that matters here is that you keep your wrists straight, with respect to your forearms.
      Do that however you want, with whatever you want.