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Re:A Keyboard with Blank Keycaps Made Me an Expert Typist by sirmarksalot on Wednesday August 12, 2020 @03:41PM (#24135944)
I have a keyboard with a similar arrangement, and I've still never quite gotten used to it. I make extensive use of the Mac's built-in text editing shortcuts, and chording them all gets very confusing.

  Beginning of line: right-fn+cmd+h
  Select beginning of line: right-fn+cmd+right-shift+h
  Previous word: left-fn+option+h
  Select previous word: left-fn+option+left-shift+h
I kept telling myself it would eventually click, but I found myself still making mistakes two weeks in.
Re:A Keyboard with Blank Keycaps Made Me an Expert Typist by alpaca128 on Thursday August 13, 2020 @06:14AM (#24141730)
I guess the main difference here is that I am working with Vim and its shortcuts. Thanks to its modes and two leader keys I can use every shortcut using only one modifier.

Only being restricted to usual system-wide shortcuts I think I also would have issues, at least without custom macros. For example I defined macros for Ctrl-Tab and Ctrl-Shift-Tab so I can switch browser tabs more comfortably, but I don't see that as much more than a crutch.