Hi folks, I’ve had my Model 1 for about 3 months now. I got it because the Microsoft Natural keyboards I had been using for years to alleviate wrist/arm pain were no longer doing it, and the Kinesis Edge I tried made things worse. The Keyboardio helped quite a bit compared to both of those. Howe…

Alternatively, put pipe and backslash on the same key, like on a standard keyboard, and use shift for pipe and braces. Then you only need 3 keys, for open bracket, closed bracket, and backslash. So get rid of my control-left and control-right, and put the brackets there, symmetrically arranged. Then…

Or - get rid of the right function key and make it a space, and put delete where the space key was - then you wouldn’t need the function key for delete either. You could then swap backspace and the left function key, so the function key would be a thumb key and the palm keys would be used for space…

Thanks, that’s really helpful for ideas! I like the location of the brackets and put the backslash over the butterfly. I didn’t realize one could remap Prog. I think I do need to keep ctrl and space on both sides for ergonomic reasons. I’ll iterate a bit and report back with what I’m doing. Th…

By the way, is there a tool that makes those images?

[image] jgoerzen: I didn’t realize one could remap Prog. What do you mean? Prog isn’t really a key. You mean ctrl and shift, right? There’s a plugin called OneShot that solves that problem so you don’t need to press two keys at once. You just tap the modifier and then tap the next key. That…

[image] jgoerzen: By the way, is there a tool that makes those images? Oh, I’ve never used it, but I just realized that Chrysalis can probably do it.

[image] fire: [image] jgoerzen: I didn’t realize one could remap Prog. What do you mean? Prog isn’t really a key. I don’t know what you mean. I’ve been afraid to map prog to anything, since it’s needed for re-flashing the keyboard. I figured if I messed anything up, I might be unable t…

Yes, you can remap Prog without fear. @algernon explained how it works: [image] How the `Prog` key gets you into the Bootloader The PROG key is hardwired to reset the MCU into programmable mode. No matter what code you put on it, if it is held while flashing, it should work. If it does not, you…

I found a way to break it. I remapped Prog to OSM(RightGui). And I’ve bound RightGui+Enter to open a terminal. Which means re-flashing my Model 01 now goes like this: Modify sketch make flash hold prog key, press enter admire the new terminal window that opens head-desk Any idea how I can fix thi…

Can't seem get my typing speed up

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alfalfasprossen (Johannes Becker) April 21, 2020, 9:10am 16

If you need more inspiration for tweaking the layout, there are quite a few threads about custom layouts already like Share your layout

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Can't seem get my typing speed up

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