It’s definitely about comfort, but i’ve also never been faster on any other board. Gotta admit I’m not a fast typist, with around 80wpm.

I’ve been using Zilpzalp basically exclusively for over a year, at this point I don’t think I’ll ever find a more comfortable board :)

started out with an Architeuthis Dux, never regretted it :)

Addendum to 1: While QMK is nice, I personally prefer ZMK and use it even on my wired boards. So just wanna say, “forced to use” sounds a bit harsh. ZMK is a great and very capable firmware, and it does certain things better than QMK.

Well I won’t have any problems with doctors I suppose

So cool! Love the roundings, especially around the trackball 👌👌👌 And also Chicago Steno is such bliss 😌

Ergogen is so good 👌 Writing the firmware is surprisingly easy thanks to zmk / qmk :) Fingers crossed for the future work!

Sure, here you go:

so what you’re saying is… moving your arm outwards to use the mouse is more ergonomic than moving it inwards? 🤔

Yup! Very nice prints :) I got it from keeb.supply btw, not my own print. (And they are getting the prints at JLC iirc)

The blue and white one is actually the hummingbird :) And yes, that’s a resin printed case

To be quite honest, I’m not 100% sure how ergonomic this tiny thing is :D It sure is fun to type on it tho and I haven’t felt anything similar to the strain from using pain rectangles while / after using it for a few days.

Well I’ve been using it for a few days and very happy with it :)

And you’re right, it’s smaller than that! The spacing is 15mm x 15mm

It’s very much functional :) But to be fair, the perspective does a lot in this picture. Close-up:

Yup, I currently have v, z, and q on combos. You can also check my current keymap in the repo I linked above (in the example_keymaps directory).

I’ve been using this layout exclusively for a few months now, the initial learning curve was actually not that steep, since I had been on the Aptmak layout for a while before reducing it a bit to this state.

It’s minimal choc spacing (while not cutting off stuff from the switches). To be honest I didn’t expect to be able to work so well with it but here we are :D