Has anyone else been experiencing thumb pain when reaching for the outermost key in the thumb arc?

I did on the default layout, so I moved my more-frequently used keys inward. On the left hand it’s shift, tab, cmd, ctrl (I put bksp where the tab key was), and on the right hand it’s alt, ctrl, space, shift, both left-to-right. That arrangement has been way friendlier on my DeQuervain’s, which migh…

I wouldn’t say I’m experiencing thumb pain, but it’s definitely a stretch and somewhat uncomfortable for me. I made shift the key one-from-the outside and put alt and cmd on the edges since I don’t use those very often.

I did on my right hand only for some reason. I have CTRL, space, enter from the right side in and I think it’s the enter key that might be causing it, however, over the years I’ve developed a weird way of twisting when I sit and I need to correct that.

Not having pain, but I agree that having Shift as the outermost key doesn’t seem to be optimal. Interesting that others have come to the same conclusion. My ordering, left to right, is Shift, Bksp, Ctrl, Cmd – Alt, Ctrl, Space, Shift. This makes more sense to me in a few ways: Shift, which I thin…

No pain at all, but I have started to notice something weird, in that I have to make an effort to stretch for left shift, whereas the right hand keys are easy. Could be that I still need to unlearn bad habits I picked up on my old keyboard, though thinking about it I did have a wrist injury many ye…

I don’t feel any pain but I reordered some of the keys like that (from left to right) : Alt / Bksp / Shift (Enter, dual key) / Ctrl - Ctrl / Shift (Enter, dual key) / Space / Alt I also realized (thanks to the heatmap plugin) that I almost never use the right Fn, Alt and Ctrl keys.

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