For example, I’m sure the average joe doesn’t know just how expensive calligraphy pens can be, or how deep the rabbit hole goes on video game speedruns.

  • nottheengineer@feddit.de
    1071·
    1 年前

    Keyboards are generally known about, but the ergo part of it is a rabbit hole within the rabbit hole. Some people literally design, 3D print, wire up, solder and program one-off keyboards because they don’t like the ones made by other people.

        • Davel23@kbin.social
          10·
          1 年前

          Steno machines are also “chorded”, and they type in a form of shorthand where sounds, words, and phrases can be represented by just a few characters. My guess is that given equal skill levels, a steno machine would still be faster.

        • Literati@lemmy.world
          6·
          1 年前

          Stenographers usually use something pretty similar so I doubt it. The ones I’ve seen (to be fair, live captioners, not stenographers) use something that’s closer to a piano than a normal keyboard, and it types full words rather than letters, but also has a regular typing functionality. Pretty cool to watch honestly.

        • dustyData@lemmy.worldEnglish
          41·
          1 年前

          No way. Stenographers can transcribe speech live. Some have been timed at close to 400 wpm. While the top chorded typing is closer to 250wpm. Good, but nowhere close to a stenotype. Both are pretty ridiculously fast though. A pretty fast typist can barely approach 100.

      • nottheengineer@feddit.de
        5·
        1 年前

        I switched to colemak-DH a while ago and it’s been great. Much more comfortable than QWERTY even on a standard keyboard.

        • demesisx@infosec.pubEnglish
          141·
          1 年前

          Not yet but I am seriously considering building a badass ergo keyboard at some point once I see a good enough design to copy.

      • CapnMoisesBKind@sh.itjust.works
        4·
        1 年前

        Oh my gosh, I searched it and it looks hard to use but once you get good, you can type faster than the fastest typist using a regular keyboard.

        Interesting!

      • flubba86@lemmy.world
        3·
        1 年前

        They were/are one of the largest enthusiast groups on Reddit, so it makes sense they have a large presence on Lemmy too.

    • synclair1@lemmy.world
      6·
      1 年前

      I did exactly this! It was super fun! Ergodox keyboard is very expensive. I spent about $40 on my custom one. It works great too :)

      • Silvus@lemmy.world
        2·
        1 年前

        check out Drops Preonic. because it is ortho, all the keys are much closer together. I have one at home and at work.

      • nottheengineer@feddit.de
        2·
        1 年前

        There used to be smaller keyboards. Chyrosran22 reviewed one from the 80s, but I can’t find the video right now. Maybe someone else remembers the model.

    • Zak8022@artemis.camp
      4·
      1 年前

      The nice thing is that it’s possible to find your “endgame” where you are satisfied without spending a TON. I’m happy with my Drop ALT, stock key caps, and Zeal Zilent v2s. Mind you that was my 3rd or 4th board of varying “depth” in the scene. 🤣