Worst modern keyboard layout?

DustGod · 30 Dec 2017, 18:07

In my opinion, this is a pretty strong candidate:

Bonus extra pain if you're Italian or use Italian layout.

depletedvespene · 30 Dec 2017, 19:56

That wide Q is unforgivable. Even more so than the unusable, too small three keys to the right of P and L... but not as much as the absurdly thin 1.

The arrow cluster, however...

I can't wait for the nightmares to come for both the Spanish and German versions of this atrocity, while we're at it.

Vecktrex · 30 Dec 2017, 20:05

Given how I'm forced to use Chromebooks and I use the arrow keys a lot - the Dell Chromebook keyboard is certainly up there. The heck is it with that placement!?

Spoiler:

The keyboard itself never fails to have my fingertips hurting by the end of the day with how hard I press the keys. Typing on buckling springs and Alps white have their drawbacks when forced to use other keyboards... I've brought in a Cherry ML 4100 some days just to have a slightly less atrocious keyboard.

depletedvespene · 30 Dec 2017, 20:35

Vecktrex wrote: Given how I'm forced to use Chromebooks and I use the arrow keys a lot - the Dell Chromebook keyboard is certainly up there. The heck is it with that placement!?

Never mind the arrows. Is that the Power button right on top of Backspace???

depletedvespene · 30 Dec 2017, 20:39

Also, those "semifused" Enter keys have become rather common on the cheaper laptops currently for sale (although on the ISO arrangement, not ANSI). They bother me A LOT more than they should.

Vecktrex · 30 Dec 2017, 20:47

depletedvespene wrote:
Vecktrex wrote: Given how I'm forced to use Chromebooks and I use the arrow keys a lot - the Dell Chromebook keyboard is certainly up there. The heck is it with that placement!?
Never mind the arrows. Is that the Power button right on top of Backspace???

I can't count the number of times that I have accidentally turned the Chromebook off because of that power button placement. I've grown used to it so I've stopped turning it off on a regular basis, but it still happens every now and then. It's infuriating to be in the middle of writing up a document, make a typo or mistake, backspa- Oh. It's off. Thanks Dell engineers!

codemonkeymike · 30 Dec 2017, 22:39

I really cant top these as some of the worst layouts I have seen, my sister did have a couple chrome books and I agree they have really shit layouts.

DustGod · 31 Dec 2017, 00:11

depletedvespene wrote: That wide Q is unforgivable. Even more so than the unusable, too small three keys to the right of P and L... but not as much as the absurdly thin 1.

Another majestic feature is that the letters è, à, and ò are on the main layer, ù and ì are on the second layer.
Typing on this thing is probably a nightmare.
(I didn't even bother to try.)

depletedvespene · 31 Dec 2017, 01:06

But you DO have a (small) Caps key! Vecktrex doesn't even have that!

Vecktrex · 31 Dec 2017, 01:42

codemonkeymike wrote: I really cant top these as some of the worst layouts I have seen, my sister did have a couple chrome books and I agree they have really shit layouts.

Most of them lack function keys, which I use often. The Dell Chromebook I use dosen't even have an extra key for functions. I've devised a pretty simple, but elegant solution

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depletedvespene · 31 Dec 2017, 02:07

I posted a similar picture on reddit a few months ago... but it was a joke.

https://www.reddit.com/r/MechanicalKeyb ... his_right/

Vecktrex · 31 Dec 2017, 02:18

depletedvespene wrote: I posted a similar picture on reddit a few months ago... but it was a joke.

https://www.reddit.com/r/MechanicalKeyb ... his_right/

It was taken for the joke of it, brought it in cause my computer science teacher and I were talking about old keyboards. The Pok3r is alright, but my preferred small keyboard at the moment is a Cherry ML 4100. This is how you do a small layout.

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