shot answer, probably not unless it's an accessiblity thing (missing fingers etc)
The whole 'least keys possible i'm 31337 hax0r' optimization fuckery I just find hilarious.
The whole 'least keys possible i'm 31337 hax0r' optimization fuckery I just find hilarious.
I tried out a friends glove80... it's just kinesis but still worse, there are a few things that kinesis does. It's better than the ergo-dox because keywells.. it's better than the glove 80 because of the keycap profiling. I do think the profiling on the 360 is a little worse than the older advantage 1/2 but it's pretty good. .. but like the glove 80 all the keycaps are the same height from the switch and it's not great.
(to give props advantage basically stole from maltron but the build quality on those is so so shitty.. vacuform cases sometimes)
On most typical keyboards, your thumbs only get to press one huge spacebar. (Which means for keys like shift, enter, backspace, the hands need to move, or the pinkies need to stretch).
Whereas, most of these "31337 hax0r" keyboards allow each thumb to use two or three keys each. With that, the thumbs can then use backspace/enter/etc. without the fingers having to stretch, or hands having to move.
Putting very commonly used charters on a modifier and probably two modifiers (layer+shift is common to get to a third layer) for keyboards with ~40 or under keys is connotative overhead for quite a while no matter how you cut it.
Sure, but it's a different cost, rather than an additional cost.
Any key that's not within reach of your hands at rest on home row, your hands will either need to move, or your fingers will need to stretch to reach them.
The sub-40-key keyboards trade-off the cost of a more sophisticated keymap, for the benefit of bringing the full functionality of the keyboard within reach of the hands.