Mechanical Keyboards

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Are you addicted to the clicking sounds of your beautiful and impressive mechanical keyboard?
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A recent addition. Atreus 62. (lemmy.world)

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Does less finger travel make a difference in the long term? For example if you go back to QWERTY do your fingers feels fatigued?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I can’t say that I am an expert on the science, but theoretically less finger travel might reduce repeated stress injury. I don’t know if it has been scientifically shown that Colemak helps reduce RSI in comparison to QWERTY.

From my personal experience, Colemak feels significantly more comfortable to type on. When I switch back to QWERTY, I feel like my fingers are all “spidery” in nature, stretching out and crawling all around the keyboard.

The design of the keyboards I type on in general also help improve ergonomics, but regardless if I typed on standard row staggered keyboards I’d still choose Colemak over QWERTY.