After developing wrist issues and plateauing at 65 WPM on traditional keyboards, I decided it was time to improve my typing form. My technique had always been a hybrid of touch typing and hunt-and-peck, heavily favoring my left hand while only using 2-3 fingers on my right.
Twenty plus years of ingrained typing habits needed a complete reset, and what better way than switching to an entirely new format? The ergonomic mechanical keyboard scene had caught my eye since college, which led me to the 42-key split Corne.
I opted for a pre-built model, and despite the current learning curve (hovering around 15 WPM), I couldn’t be happier with the decision. The only minor issue is with the tenting stands I added - they tend to slide during pinky key presses. While I have a few spare double-sided adhesive pads to experiment with, I’m still working on finding the optimal tenting solution through trial and error.
Choc brown switches Sculpted keycaps ZMK firmware
Unfortunately, I’m already eyeing other ergo mechs like dactyl, totem, and the KLOR polydactyl but I’m going to try to restrain myself, at least for a few months 🤣
Those keycaps are really nice! Is there a stl file for those?
Nothing I could find on the sellers website, unfortunately.
Googling choc sculpted keycaps got me https://www.printables.com/model/400911-kailh-choc-ergonomic-sculpted-keycaps
Colemak dh is cool
Yeah once I saw some heatmaps I was sold
Since I type for money, and its not like my wpm were anything to brag about, I figured I might as well take some time to optimize so I don’t end up hurting myself further down the line
wishing you much patience, I also did the switch to unlabelled, ortholinear and colemak DH all in one go about two years ago, and the first month is the hardest. Keep plowing through, you will be fully up to speed in 3 months and start to feel like a witch/wizard after that!
Part of the reason I did it all in one go as well was so I still had the proper muscle memory for QWERTY mechs/laptop Krebs, and I’ve read that doing it all in one go was a good way to achieve that. Are you still able to type on qwerty boards without a hitch?
I’m most likely going to be unable to actually use these for work for a few weeks. These came in on Saturday and I’ve spent about 3hrs on kebr and I’m about halfway unlocked with the letters with a target wpm set to 15 lol.
Figured I’ll use kebr for initial letter learning and then start switching to other platforms like monkeytype and one that i saw suggested with common n-grams after that
Looking forward to getting over this initial hump, but its definitely been a bit demoralizing.
I switch between conventinal qwerty and colemak dh ortholinear on the daily! The different layouts is how I keep them apart :P
15wpm is great for 3 hours! At some point u gotta take the plunge, I used to switch back to qwerty for screensharing since I didn’t want to make anybody watch me struggle to type one word for 10 seconds lol. But the sooner you start at work the sooner you will be comfortable with it. Maybe when you’ve unlocked all the letters on keybr :P
Keep it up, u got this.
Perfect, that’s exactly what I’m going for.
Yeah I’ve been playing with it a bit at work today with my mappings printed outaround me. Noticing a few that I’m not in love with (mainly symbols and some hotkeys) going to try to adhear to the miryoku mantra of hotkeys alternating sides, as I find some of the defaults I need to move my whole hand to be inefficient.
Adding these rubber feet resolved all sliding, but I’m sure if I angled the kickstands properly the first go around that it would have worked as is
Pic incase someone runs into the same issue in the future:
