For the most part, absolutely love it.
- I wish the thumb arcs were further towards the outer edges of the keyboard. I said the same to Jesse when I used a prototype, and it seems I just have weird hands. I could make great use of a key under M and V, while I find the shift keys more of a stretch than I like. My thumbs naturally want to rest on the control keys rather than space and backspace.
- My P key seems a lot heavier than the Q when touchtyping, but not when looking and pressing them straight down. I wonder if this is some asymmetry of my typing technique.
- My pinkes want to rest on Q and P rather than A and semicolon. This will just take a small amount of retraining, I think.
- I’m not yet used to the palm keys. But I think that’ll come pretty quickly.
- During normal typing, my thumbs go back and forth between space/backspace and shift a lot. Often I miss when moving back to space. It really seems to me that they should be next to each other. I’ll likely move them. I’m thinking shift-backspace-ctrl-command and alt-ctrl-space-shift (all left to right). I’ll use the default layout some more before moving things.
- I have a few spots of overenthusiastic dremmel work as mentioned in the recent backer update, but it’s not enough to bother me.
- I haven’t really done any coding yet, but for typing English I’m already pretty fast again! The main things are missing space/backspace as mentioned above, and learning not to account for the staggered rows, especially when pressing Q and J and B.
I’ve posted my current layout over in the Dvorak thread.