Working SA profile for Planck keyboard

[mecano]

Hello,
after many trials and tests I finaly dropped DCS, OEM and Cherry profiles to settle down on SA for my planck. PBT OEM and Cherry have many good aspects notably on sound but shape, no texture, stem course, weight and memories made it for me. The fact that SA makes the Planck taller even is a good thing for me as I don't rest my wrists on a desk.

So far I have tried:
2-3-3-3
3-3-3-4
2-3-4-4
2-3-4-3
1-2-3-4
2-3-4-reversed1
with various setups for space keys and mods.

The one that works the best for me is 2-3-4-reversed1 with R2 on the two central thumb keys (full grid here), I try to reach the others bottom keys with the others fingers for now, still experimenting this and it already feels better than moving my thumbs around.

I wonder what you users of SA on a Planck did choose as row profiles.
I also wondered why a reversed R1 (let's call it R5) is not more common.

[chuckdee]

I use modern selectric on my Planck, and it works well.

That's of the profile 1-1-2-3-4-4, so the ones for the Planck are 2-3-4-4

[mecano]

Thanks for your feedback, 2-3-4-4 is the common set now I guess, far better than the previous all row 3 kits. I think there is room for improvement again here, when touch typing having row 5 feels a lot more smoothier than row 4 and if you don't rest your wrists on the desk (and you shouldn't to keep an healthier and relaxed position) it improves the ergonomic by making the hands dive and the elbows raise in a more natural position. If you have some row 1 caps around have a try put them reversed on the bottom row.

[chuckdee]

It's just the reply I received from Skullydazed about his SA sets. Modern Selectric, Nantucket Selectric, and now Chocolatier. Not sure what everyone else is using, and/or if that's just him.

On my Planck:


On my JD45:

[mecano]

But don't you feel like falling when your fingers reach the last row?

[chuckdee]

You mean when I press something, my fingers feel like they're falling off? I can't say that I've noticed that. The final row actually angles upward, not down. It's the same last row as it is when I put it on my 60% or TKL.

[mecano]

Yes that 4-4 thing, on a 60% it's a little different I guess because you only have modifiers and space on the last row.
On my planck I got brackets, minus/underscore, equal/plus and quotes and apostrophes on this row.

[chuckdee]

Yes that 4-4 thing, on a 60% it's a little different I guess because you only have modifiers and space on the last row.
On my planck I got brackets, minus/underscore, equal/plus and quotes and apostrophes on this row.

Neither of those that I showed are 60%. One is 45% and other is a planck. I think it might be the set- what set are you using?

[mecano]

Neither of those that I showed are 60%. One is 45% and other is a planck. I think it might be the set- what set are you using?

I was talking about your last post not the pictures.
Talking about your pics layouts, I assume you only use modifiers and navigation keys on the last row.
The JD and the Planck inherited the 60% profile indeed but I really feel it not right.

[chuckdee]

Jukebox SA is on massdrop: https://www.massdrop.com/buy/jukebox-sa ... guest_open

It too is 112344.

I was talking about your last post not the pictures.
Talking about your pics layouts, I assume you only use modifiers and navigation keys on the last row.
The JD and the Planck inherited the 60% profile indeed but I really feel it not right.

What else do you use on the last row? And it might be a personal thing, but if it is personal, then I think you'll have a hard time finding anything that fits your needs exactly with SA, since it is row dependent. But I do think that 4-4 is the same no matter what, i.e. it's not a matter of what you have on R4, it's a matter if the keys that you have there are R4. On my JD45 not all are the right rows (on R4, for instance, I had to use the tab as one of the spaces, and it is R2), and I feel some variation because of it, but since I wasn't in on the GB, I didn't get the keys, so I deal, and it's not a large adjustment.

[mecano]

Using this on my last row at the moment:
[opt] [«/cmd] [»] ["] ['/numerical layer] [space/navigation layer] [=/typographic layer] [-/hardware layer] [\] [[] []/cmd] [opt]
I switched back to R3 on all layer switching keys, so now I have:
[R5][R5][R5][R5][R3][R3][R3][R3][R5][R5][R5][R5]

MMmm I'd personally rather have the right profile and the wrong label than the other way.

[chuckdee]

R3 vs R5? No wonder you feel like your fingers are falling off! I'd personally stick to the same row. Each one is sculpted for that. But whatever works!

[mecano]

No no no again you didn't understand R3 are central thumb keys, R5 are sides other fingers keys.