I’m 75% gang, but recently I’ve been looking at the 60% ones and how perfectly short they are, and the looks but I never got one since I might not be able to live without dedicated arrow keys. Then I though, what if I “fuse” 60% and 75%? I decided to use my paint skills so I can picture that. I doubt I’m the first on thinking about something like this. The right cmd or right ctrl could be Fn or something else.
Note: A 67.5% maybe? if we chopped the the Fs row.

https://preview.redd.it/x6hsb1ynkz2c1.png?width=794&format=png&auto=webp&s=aa98adaf4a5b83eae232689da4f416cd7b6c4f5a

  • kool-keys@alien.topB
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    11 months ago

    There was a board like this last year called the Sperno69, which was basically this without a F row.

    I wouldn’t be able to type on this, nor would anyone else that touchtypes using the home row, as you need a right shift. You use the opposite shift to the hand you are typing with, and you’ve spent years perfecting your muscle memory for this, so it’s will be a nightmare, and some letter would just drive you mad. You type Q with your left pinky, so typing capital Q would be almost impossible unless you basically retrained to type just for this keyboard.

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      11 months ago

      Yeah you’re right, It’s a very specific layout but thanks for this info I definitely gonna look for this keyboard