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In my opinion, this is a pretty strong candidate:



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

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.

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!? 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.

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???

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.

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!

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.

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.)

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

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

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

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

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.