1y ago

Ergodox arrived. Yikes!

Top is Das Pro 4, bottom is ErgoDox EZ

Love the customization and quickly learning to love the split keyboard. The non-staggered keys are going to take me a long time to get used to. I'm struggling with the bottom row and outer-edge keys the most.

Still happy with it but it's going to be a while before I can use it at work or for anything useful.

Edit*** Already doing a lot better! To be fair, this was an easier sentence...

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Enjoy! It took me quite a while to get used to the columnar layout on my Moonlander, but it’ll come with use. Just force yourself to stumble though using it and spend some time on the typing exercise websites to train yourself and it’ll come. Before you realize it you’ll be just as fast and accurate as you used to be.

You're doing alright your fingers will get used to it...
I've done worse to myself: Shifted to an Ergodox and Colemak mod dh at the same time!

Enjoy!

If you're a programmer rather than a professional typist, you probably can use it at work. It took a couple of weeks for me to adjust, a couple of months to be fluent, but it would have been longer if I didn't use it all day every day.
The biggest hurdles for me personally were
I didn't touch type properly before. I was a fast typist, but my hands roamed freely over the board. I realised that the finger I used to press a key depended on the word where it was used, and that took ages to re-learn.
I bound enter and space to mode shift holds for symbols etc. It works great, but it does mean I sometimes hit enter and send half a slack message instead of typing punctuation.
- I'm already doing a lot better, I'm going to take it to work tomorrow. My wpm are in the 60s now, though my accuracy needs some work. I realized I had some bad habits touch typing. I would reach for y with my left hand b with my right.
  With Enter being a thumb key I've sent many unfinished typo ridden Discord and Teams messages.
  I'm not a programmer, I do a little of everything in the IT world. Most of my typing at work is emails and documentation, but I spend time modifying configs or making/modifying scripts.

Took me about a few weeks to get really used to the columnar layout on my moonlander. However, I sat down one night early on and banged out my config and practiced with ZSA's learning tools and found it immensely helpful. Got me like 90% of the way there pretty quick. I try to retain the typing the same form on staggered layouts now, but it's still a context switch. Good luck!

26 WPM on first day is pretty solid.
I dropped from 70 to 15 when starting with an Ergodox and it took me about 10 days to get back to 60+
(And then I decided to switch to Colemak layout which is much harder than Row stagger -> column stagger I’d say)

Slow af but comfy

Hi I'm new here. What's the program in the screenshot? I wanna give that a try!
- https://www.keyhero.com/free-typing-test/
  Good luck!
  
  Thanks!

Yeah. It will be slow. Very slow for quite a while. Then it will be much nicer and faster.

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