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I just want a freaking vertical keyboard. I don't understand why this is so freaking hard to find. Kinesis had the Free Style 2 keyboard[1] that you had to go
by GenericDev 3y ago
I just want a freaking vertical keyboard.
I don't understand why this is so freaking hard to find.
Kinesis had the Free Style 2 keyboard[1] that you had to go out of the way to buy a vertical stand with, and it has been my go to keyboard FOR YEARS now because I just can't find any alternatives.
I used to use the Kinesis Advantage keyboards, but they mess with my carpal tunnel. As cool as they are the plastic placement for the wrist rests still mess with you. It's awful if you have carpal tunnel. And yes, everyone is saying they help, but they're still sources of aggravation because you are wresting your wrists on the plastic and compressing them. And yes, you can get some pads, but that really doesn't change the system.
I just want some g- d- vertical keyboards. And no one makes them with good layouts.
I got this crazy battlestation vertical keyboard from Safe Type [2] and I freaking HATED it because their layout puts a bunch of keys in the middle and there's an insane F-row keyset that requires me to move my hands all over the place. It's ridiculous!
How hard is it to get a vertical keyboard with a good keyboard layout?! I'm so scared my free style 2 is going to fail and I'm going to have to go back to a world with terrible keyboards. I even e-mailed Kinesis asking if they were going to go the same route of vertical keyboards and they refuse to. I'm dying here.
At this point I would love if someone made keyboard gloves that let me put them on and wear them to type so I don't have to compress any nerves, but I doubt that will ever happen. I feel like I'm nuts.
[1] https://kinesis-ergo.com/keyboards/freestyle2-keyboard/ https://kinesis-ergo.com/keyboards/freestyle2-keyboard/
[2] https://www.allthingsergo.com/safetype-keyboard/ https://www.allthingsergo.com/safetype-keyboard/
- Zizizizz 3y agohttps://www.zsa.io/moonlander/platform/ https://www.zsa.io/moonlander/platform/
- fallous 3y agoInterestingly I bought my mother-in-law a keyboard back in 1997 or so from an early auction site (not ebay) that had a release and dial that would split the keyboard and raise it in the center so you could pick any angle from 0-degrees to about 60 degrees vertical. As a transcriptionist she had dealt with carpal tunnel for years and that keyboard greatly reduced her pain. Sadly, I think it died in the early 2000s and I could never find a proper replacement. It might have been a Keytronic, but I've slept since then.
- raylad 3y agoThis one? https://www.goldtouch.com/ergonomic-keyboards/ https://www.goldtouch.com/ergonomic-keyboards/
- microtonal 3y agoYou can get a mounting plate for the Glove80 and mount it vertically. Some people do. I went through some ergonomics research and they suggest that lower angles are better than completely vertical. It differs per paper, but most comfortable angle in group studies seems to be somewhere between 20 and 45 degrees if I remember correctly (I’d have to dig up the papers again).
- chipsa 3y agoThe Keyboardio Model 100[0] has 1/4-20 threaded holes (standard tripod) in the bottom, so you can add them onto whatever crazy setup you have that uses that threading. So, you'd have to hack together a stand, probably, but once you do, you can make the stand exactly the way you want it. I've heard of people mounting the keyboard to their chair. 0: https://shop.keyboard.io/pages/model100 https://shop.keyboard.io/pages/model100