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.

The scientific term would be “ulnar deviation”.

True ergonomics would be more along the lines of Dactyl Manuform or Corne with tenting.

The pronation and extension of the wrists in addition to ulnar deviation is very similar on both row staggered and ortholinear boards, the main difference being that there is less space from key-to-key with ortholinear layouts, but that doesn’t mean that it is more ergonomic.

I can’t imagine typing in a layout like the one you are currently using and having your wrists ‘perfectly straight’ unless you had incredibly narrow shoulders with your elbows tucked into your rib cage. I have fairly petite dimensions, and even for me they would be nowhere near ‘perfectly straight’.

You’ve got to keep in mind most of r/MR is not your average user. They’re the 1% who has spent $150 on several mice searching for a mythical shape that fits them like a glove.

I agree though, the diminishing returns of a 60g 1K mouse to a 40g 4k mouse aren’t going to affect even the greatest of aim gods that significantly, if at all.

Sounds like you haven’t been there recently. Current meta is fuck glorious, fuck final mouse, fuck razer, fuck Logitech, fuck g-wolves. Pulsar is hit or miss. Chinese no-name mice are based. Vaxee is based.

After years of using a Planck and Preonic I returned to row staggered. If anything columnar stagger and/or split should be what is utilized, full ortho doesn’t seem any more ergonomic due to the way you need to turn your wrists