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Re:Touch-typing feels good but isn’t for me by enoch_r on Tuesday April 16, 2019 @06:02PM (#19677747)
I've had a few different ergonomic/ortholinear keyboards and I really, really highly recommend checking out the Atreus keyboard if you want to never look down. It's so ridiculously small (42 keys, no number row) that you know exactly where your fingers are the entire time you're typing.

It has programmable layouts/layers but if you just stick with the defaults it's no more context-switching than modal editing. QWERTY is the base layer, next layer up does symbols, arrow keys, page up/down, and a numpad. Then on the third layer you have function keys and a few extras (e.g. insert, volume up/down). Took me a week or two to get comfortable with the first two layers, another few weeks before I felt confident with the third, and maybe 6 months in now I can't imagine ever going back to a regular keyboard.

Typing `*{@` is as easy as typing `prw` with one (thumb operated) modifier held down.

https://atreus.technomancy.us/

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Re:Touch-typing feels good but isn’t for me by ludsan on Tuesday April 16, 2019 @07:58PM (#19678428)
Similar to the Atreus is the keyboardio, which I am now on my first month of learning. https://shop.keyboard.io/

I have a Planck on order and will be the first keyboard I will be building, but wanted to buy something without having to think about which Cherry switches or keycap profile was perfect for me.

The use of layers is great, and I encourage anyone to try it. I saw someone on a youtube somewhere explain the idea succinctly and I think it's worth paraphrasing here: "Bring the keys to your fingers and not your fingers to the keys"

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