Kinesis Advantage360 Professional Split Mechanical Keyboard

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I really wish the home row keycaps had a greater scoop but thankfully, due to the key well, your fingers are largely led to the correct place.

A bit like the hard wrist rests on the Moonlander, without the pads is actually fine and in some ways preferable.To be honest, no keyboard matches the comfort of my macbook with the keyboard being under the level of the palms. Exactly, the laptop is the most inconvenient thing, otherwise I wouldn’t mind (and it’s actually kinda cool and a show off). Another comfort setting are the three adjustable heights you can set the Advantage360 at, from almost flat on the desk to almost perpendicular. Or perhaps Windows has upped their game in the couple of years since I last tried a Bluetooth keyboard? Separating the keywells, positions the arms at shoulder-width to keep wrists straight and perpendicular to the home row to reduce abduction and ulnar deviation.

However, if I want to only ever utilize 12 keys and do some monstrous chording setup, also an option. The original Advantage is massive and its comfortable typing shape makes for an awkward size in backpacks. I’ve been alternating days on the 360 and the Moonlander boards, and find the flatter profile of the Moonlander thumb area seems to suit me better. Refer to the Advantage360 Pro Support Page for more information regarding setting up a Github account. The all new Advantage360 Professional features the same great ergonomics as the base model, but without all the cables.I have the delete key (which is next to it in the thumb cluster) act as an extra Ctrl key when held down.

If you have some kind of arm movement problem/disability then concave wells might be the best solution, but for the general population the wells are more awkward to use in the upper rows of keys, increasing the forearm tension which controls the fingers. It always seemed daunting, learning how to type a split keypad, effectively retraining decades of bad habits. The thumb clusters include frequently-used keys such as Enter, Space, Backspace, and Delete to redistribute the workload away from your relatively weaker and overused little fingers to stronger thumbs. The keys are arranged in vertical columns (rather than staggered) to better reflect the natural motion of fingers when typing.I made a split keyboard that put the num pad in the middle since that space is normally wasted, but it wasn't very nice to use. There are plenty of pros out there that will have no knowledge or desire to grapple code just to configure their keyboard. There are 4 buttons in the center columns that have no use on the default layer — they are simply bound to 1, 2, 3, and 4. That keyboard AFAIK comes along in an own earthquake-proof suitcase and is also bundled with some other gimmicks, like wireless charging and the like. I’m not suggesting you need to be a member of Mensa to use it, or frankly I’d be screwed but it is not simple.