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I want three things from my keyboard:

- ergonomic split design

- ISO layout

- mechanical switches

However this seems to be impossible to find. I can easily find any combination of any two of these, but not all three. Then if you start about thinking wireless on top - forget about it.

On the other hand every week I see another one of these wildly impractical keyboards that people are making (and in fairness I've also constructed one - although I can't justify actually using it). Just feels bad man.

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Depends on what you put under "ergonomic", but you could take a look at the Ultimate Hacking keyboard: https://ultimatehackingkeyboard.com/ (split, ISO layout & mechanical switches, not wireless however).

I've seen this before, but at least in the order form pictures the ISO layout doesn't look any different from ANSI layout.

AFAIK, the only difference (for the UHK keyboard, at least) is that, on the ISO layout, the left-shift key is narrower, in order to make space for an extra key. This is visible for instance if you compare their US (ANSI) and UK (ISO) layout.

Maybe it is just me, but I don’t think a keyboard has ISO layout if it sticks with ANSI style enter - that pretty much is the defining feature

I think you’d really like the Dygma Raise. https://dygma.com/ It sounds like what you’ve described. My daily driver is RGBKB Sol3 and I love it more than a person should love a keyboard. https://www.rgbkb.net/products/sol-3-keyboard-prebuilt I went deep on keyboards but didn’t go the super minimalist route that I see get posted often. I type at 120wpm+ on QWERTY so “typing faster” was never the issue, just wanted to minimize pain.

Now that you mention it I do remember considering dygma. Need to recheck it.

I don’t really care about typing speed since I don’t write books or documentation for living

Like the MISTEL BAROCCO MD770?

https://mistelkeyboard.com/products/d11cf7a73da49468e2a530b4...

I can’t see a single ISO keyboard (although specs do claim they have it) nor a button to buy one

with ErgoDox, you can align the keys whatever way you please. It's split and has mechanical switches.

It has been few years since I looked at ErgoDox last time there was no support for anything but ANSI layout and I get that most of these are US based creations so naturally US ANSI is the primary layout to support, I just can't justify unlearning my own layout since I have to maintain a fleet of computers and don't want to be reliant on carrying my custom keyboard with me.

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