that would make sense. i have had some issues too, only had to send one unit back though, which was why I think this may be better. i mostly use mine for some games and a macropad basically. i like the idea but am wondering about the long term reliability.
from there you should be fine, just need to practice more for speed. i have had a few layouts learned to about 40-90wpm on a regular keyboard, two on a characorder to 40-60wpm, and can fingerspell 20-25wpm w/ steno. learning a new layout is not that bad, it just feels weird for about a week, and you need to put in 15-20 hours on a typing site/app, practice everyday, and sleep on it. it one of those things where you don’t see the gains until the next day or two. the charachorder took a little longer at first, but that was because you also have to learn the charachorder too. at 25 wpm you would be mostly building speed which is layout independent.
I would be interested to see how this compares to using a characorder, which is similar in concept but the switches are different. I feel like this would be a little easier to press.
fwiw, if any one is wondering, this or a cc would by far be the best single key entry typing experience you can get as far as comfort goes. the lack of wrist movement is incredible, your hands basically don’t move all day. its much easier to stay in the zone when you don’t have to worry about where your hands are, not having to reach for shortcuts, not having worry so much about keybinds or key placement because you can reach everything you need with ease.
most of these keyboards and layouts all just minimize wrist/finger movement for the most part, which this cuts down to nothing with any keyboard layout
i was going to ask, but this makes a lot more sense. my issue with the one hand boards was the number of keys some games will use in active play
i have a similar board with a qwerty layer that works the same way. it works well, but has some issues with games
this looks fantastic, I really have to learn to solder so I can make one of these I keep seeing
yeah you can, and I do. plover also has a key/letter entry “layer” if you don’t know the chord or if its not in the dictionary. so I have two ways to enter single letters for any thing i forget basically. my key entry speeds are slow, but about average bad typist (20-30 wpm). it will get a little faster over time, but I don’t really practice it at all.
the way plover works, you can think of each key/key combination release (plover sends on key up, not down) as a 1- 2 second temp layer that will default to a common word when released most of the time.
so for example, there is an “inter” layer where if you press SPWER, release it, you then have about a second to enter any other command that would be in that layer, which is mostly words that start with “inter”. by default, the word enter comes out, but you still have the time to press the next chord.
the fingerspelling layer is just holding the middle key with your right hand and pressing another few keys with your left hand to get a letter. this is a separate layer from the one linked in my post. that layer you press TKPWHR first, and then mostly the same letters from the fingerspelling layer in the previous example.
a new layer is just any combination of buttons that does not output anything already, and then I can add any other word/command/letter thats in the dictionary or add a new word.
i block a lot of the excessive tracking, but not all ads specifically. i think its better to not go to the site at all and find a competitor that does not have as many ads. going to the site when you have that bad of an issue with it sends a bad signal to the people running the site.
I have two, but find them to be better for key entry than chording. If I was not into chording, I would still use them. They work well, but there’s no system for adding words, so you will have to do it on your own the last that I checked (this may have changed). It is just easier to learn a steno theory in the long run.