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... mapped it there on my F. I'll have to see how fast I can retrain my muscle memory to use the standard Esc position.
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... sends Esc when unshifted, and ~ when shifted. So non-HHKB devotees with muscle memory who expect Shift+that key to send a ~ will not be caught off-guard, and HHKB fans with muscle memory who expect pressing that key alone to send Esc will also not be caught off-guard. This is in fact what I did for the ...

... mean that it makes more sense to double Esc than to double `, since muscle memory has a high likelihood to instinctually aim for that key when Esc is the intended action.

So I'm mostly interested in the responses from those who ordered a board with "HHKB-Style Split Right Shift and Split Backspace ...

... mean that it makes more sense to double Esc than to double `, since muscle memory has a high likelihood to instinctually aim for that key when Esc is the intended action.

So I'm mostly interested in the responses from those who ordered a board with "HHKB-Style Split Right Shift and Split Backspace ...

... I do not like about this keyboard is the ISO layout. I have decades of muscle memory using ANSI, so I keep hitting the "Macro" key (which Windows interprets as /) instead of left shift. I will have to see if I can get used to it, otherwise I will have another gorgeous board that I can't use as a daily ...

... very conservative. Experienced typists often prefer their existing muscle memory over learning something new. Even the ergo-mech crowd that are very excited about these things tend to gravitate towards a small numbers of physical layouts.

I am convinced that trying to convince a major keyboard ...

Different people like different things. Shocker.

I prefer 60% and do in fact use the Home through Page Down cluster constantly. I like them right there in the alpha block with a function key. I even reach for them, HHKB style, on TKL and full-size boards. Muscle memory wins.

... relegated to Fn
Some real hacky Escape / Backtick logic to match my muscle memory for several overlaid functions on that one key. Defaults to Escape, obvs, with Fn Esc to make `, but my fingers expect many things with various combos there, which they have now
Fun fact: the Poker has the same USB ...

... remapping) swap the 0 and . keys. I tested several other options, but muscle memory inhibited most. The problem with this, of course, is to have a 1U 0 and a 2U . . That's why on my "dream" numpad (of which I've talked before ) both keys would be 1.5U in size.

... the same set of mods across all my keyboards, including the laptop’s built-in. That did the trick. Muscle memory is king. Learn by doing. Often! :lol:

... timers with decades of keyboard usage like myself might have too much muscle memory to change the num pad location!

On the subject of relegendables, I have not seen too many photos of custom-printed relegendable keys in use on the Model F keyboards - everyone please do share some photos and ...

Muscle memory can be a female canine indeed, though oddly enough I've never found all my frequent switching between backspace types—simply because of different keyboards—to cause me any problem. Most of my favourite keyboards have 1.5u backspace right of ], where I like it best, but the others all have ...

... Those two black keys are still blanks. I'm not using either key, as muscle memory is a b◉tch and that area can only be Backspace . For now, I am perfectly happy with a TIE Enter and an "HHKB-style" Backspace , but once Ellipse has started to produce ISO Enter keys I might do the unthinkable and ...

... not there. But that's probably also because I grew up with a numpad and muscle memory expects it to be there. I'm sure if I grew up without a numpad, I'd look at things differently.

I wish there were more options for USB numpad-only keyboards so I could have it there when I needed it. Various ...

... way. Keep it consistent and it's as natural as Shift. They're the same muscle in memory.


It all comes down to individual use cases and preference.

For the average writer or user, a 60% keyboard may make sense for its small footprint. In those cases you only have to use the F keys occasionally ...

... what have you) It feels like each day I wake up with significantly more muscle memory than I had the night before. I can also type for significantly longer (than on QWERTY) without building up wrist fatigue, so I am still enjoying this experiment.

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That was ...

... if I maybe learned a new layout on ortho, I wouldn't affect my Qwerty muscle memory on all other boards. I already have a little Access IS, let's rummage up a picture:

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Dressing the little fella up in fancy caps was fun (I have the Colemak kit for ...

... for some home server maintenance. Typing passwords is almost entirely muscle memory so that really broke me. But I am back at the typing practice, and clawing back to a measly 24 WPM. I tried out cold turkey Colemak and just felt infuriated by my hands so I think this incremental approach really is ...

Tarmak is an intriguing idea for incrementally building muscle memory. The week or two I tried learning Colemak some years ago was excruciating, as you’ve likely already heard, so this approach is definitely worth trying.

As for Colemak-DH:

https://dreymar.colemak.org/res/cmk/tarmak/Tarmak-ETROI ...

... felt completely useless. It hurt my brain trying to unlearn decades of muscle memory in one fell swoop. I am coming from QWERTY as a ~75 WPM touch typist. I was not classically trained really, but I would say my form is relatively decent. Hovering over the home row and all that. Not great at using the ...

all of us with Undo, Cut, Copy, Paste as deeply in our muscle memory as the alphabet.

QWERTY! Whatever its flaws, I’m so used to it I scarcely feel them.



Same here. My birthday last month started with a "7" so I am pretty well cemented in the muscle memory department.

Even my seldom-used ...

all of us with Undo, Cut, Copy, Paste as deeply in our muscle memory as the alphabet.

QWERTY! Whatever its flaws, I’m so used to it I scarcely feel them.



Same here. My birthday last month started with a "7" so I am pretty well cemented in the muscle memory department.

Even my seldom-used ...

... smart choice for all of us with Undo, Cut, Copy, Paste as deeply in our muscle memory as the alphabet. When I got the appropriate caps in Round 5 to try it on my NovaTouch, I dedicated a week with premium caps on a pretty nice keyboard to my own Colemak experiment. "Let's learn this thing!"

I still ...

... used keys - because those are exactly the keys you have the best muscle memory for. :)

Seriously though - flicker shouldn't be a problem anymore (I hope I'll have a chance to see current state of the art next week), longer fade time and fading-to-default-level-not-black are pretty valid points ...

... I don't often use them indeed. That's because in the land of layouts: muscle memory is king. I have the same suite of media keys on the function layer of all of my keyboards—including the 60%s like this one I so often use—that hitting them is automatic. Consistency is key: one function layer to bind ...

... at your keyboard. It was a simple possibility to make use of left-hand muscle memory to type combos like Ctrl-F4, Shift-F5 or Ctrl+Shift+F8.

And then Microsoft had the silly idea of replacing those two columns of function keys with a row of 12 of them, so that now using function key combos means ...

... endowed with them. Indeed, Control left of A is stuck so hard in muscle memory now that my more modern keyboards—and this ‘lil guy —contain needless duplication in the bottom left corner. I much prefer Control up where it’s easy to reach.

... I type a hell of a lot on my HHKB and find it to be perfectly attuned, muscle-memory-wise, to my other boards. That Backspace bang on-top of Return is among my favourite things about the layout, but I find switching between that and regular 2u, 2 rows up Backspace boards quite effortless. Maybe it's ...

... big, fat Enter keys is unfortunately(?) imprinted too deeply into my muscle memory. Typing on anything else drives me crazy now :D

I checked that the stabilizer is correct and correctly installed, I think otherwise the key wouldn’t really work at all. I switched the numpad stabilizer and the main ...

... and a navigation layer on a Function key works in just the same way. Keep it consistent and it's as natural as Shift. They're the same muscle in memory.