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…

One thing that I need to do more of is deliberate practice. That is, isolating the things that you have trouble with, and repeating them until you start developing new muscle memory. The challenge with the infrequently used punctuation symbols is that they are infrequent. That means you don’t use t…

[image] jgoerzen: The lack of the arrow keys seems to bug me more than I’d expected I feel the same way, which is why I made a layout with dedicated arrow keys! There’s really no substitute. I can really relate to your post. Keyboardio takes some time to get used to, but I’ve found it very m…

Practice seems to be what’s needed to get used to a new keyboard. When I was first learning to type on the Model01, it was painful to learn a new layout. Not only is the Model01 physically different than what I’d been used to for decades, I also switched from my native Finnish layout to the US one.…

You also might like the TapDance plugin which would let you tap once for (, twice for [, three times for {. [image] Dedicated brackets key Help and Getting Started I have started modifying my Model 01 for my preferences and I have been making good progress. Here is what …

[image] plantarum: Maybe that means you spend a week doing five minutes of {} braces every morning. And then another week doing navigation keys. That’s quite reasonable, and a good idea. Thanks!

[image] liw: It was much less painful than when I first learnt to touch type as a teenager, though. At least there was no blood this time. Portable mechanical typewriters are not a thing I miss fondly. Lars, good to run into you again! I remember your great talk at a Linux Expo in North Caro…

[image] fire: You may want a layout where , |, braces, brackets, tab, esc, and tilde are all available without modifiers (which is very possible). I would love that. I’d appreciate some pointers on how one might do it! I’ve been staring at this thing without solving it so far. Brainstorms:…

One other thing I’m considering: using vi keybindings as much as possible. I have basically four common environments I use: Emacs bash / lineedit (similar to emacs) Firefox / occasional LibreOffice (with vimium plugin for navigation, but it doesn’t do much for editing) Occasional vim Of all thes…

So here’s my layout: [model-01-layout-card-fire] Since you want brackets, braces, backslash, and pipe all on their own keys, maybe get rid of my Control-Left and Control-Right, which gives you 4 blank, which works if you don’t mind hitting shift for the braces. Otherwise, move Del to a layer, ge…

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…

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fire April 18, 2020, 6:03am 5

You also might like the TapDance plugin which would let you tap once for (, twice for [, three times for {.

https://github.com/keyboardio/Kaleidoscope-TapDance

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Can't seem get my typing speed up

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