deskthority

Anakey wrote: 18 Mar 2019, 16:29 I would say:

• R Shift + Up = Pg Up
• R Shift + Down = Pg Down
• R Shift + Left = Home
• R Shift + Right = End

Thank you, I will adopt them exactly as you suggest
(But with no different betwen RShift and LShift)

I think a smaller spacebar would feel very different, more sharp and precise, something I can imagine to use
The only problem would be for people like me that hit the spacebar between V-B-N

You could try removing the second spacebar entirly, make one bar 1 unit longer an use 1,75 for ctrl and alt ...

@Anakey For games you are right, there certainly some games that could use this key. Luckily all PC games allow for remapping, even this is not perfect you could map them to the Start (Home) and End key if they are not used to
But the idea to use mod-chords on the arrow keys is very good! I like ...

Thank you all for replaying and your tips!

only thing I would suggest you is to group the F-keys in 4-key arrays for touch typing (reducing backspace/esc size)
That's something I considered; reducing the esc key seems to be no problem, but the backspace key would be to small and would need a ...

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I started thinking about a custom keyboard for a long time
First, I just wanted an English keyboard layout with swapping Z and Y to have qwertz and the better located special keys (e.g. brackets)
And now I finished my "complete custom" German Layout ...