that would make sense. i have had some issues too, only had to send one unit back though, which was why I think this may be better. i mostly use mine for some games and a macropad basically. i like the idea but am wondering about the long term reliability.
from there you should be fine, just need to practice more for speed. i have had a few layouts learned to about 40-90wpm on a regular keyboard, two on a characorder to 40-60wpm, and can fingerspell 20-25wpm w/ steno. learning a new layout is not that bad, it just feels weird for about a week, and you need to put in 15-20 hours on a typing site/app, practice everyday, and sleep on it. it one of those things where you don't see the gains until the next day or two. the charachorder took a little longer at first, but that was because you also have to learn the charachorder too. at 25 wpm you would be mostly building speed which is layout independent.
I would be interested to see how this compares to using a characorder, which is similar in concept but the switches are different. I feel like this would be a little easier to press.
fwiw, if any one is wondering, this or a cc would by far be the best single key entry typing experience you can get as far as comfort goes. the lack of wrist movement is incredible, your hands basically don't move all day. its much easier to stay in the zone when you don't have to worry about where your hands are, not having to reach for shortcuts, not having worry so much about keybinds or key placement because you can reach everything you need with ease.
most of these keyboards and layouts all just minimize wrist/finger movement for the most part, which this cuts down to nothing with any keyboard layout
i was going to ask, but this makes a lot more sense. my issue with the one hand boards was the number of keys some games will use in active play
i have a similar board with a qwerty layer that works the same way. it works well, but has some issues with games
this looks fantastic, I really have to learn to solder so I can make one of these I keep seeing
i block a lot of the excessive tracking, but not all ads specifically. i think its better to not go to the site at all and find a competitor that does not have as many ads. going to the site when you have that bad of an issue with it sends a bad signal to the people running the site.
this is a steno keyboard from nolltronics. there is a qwerty layer, but I only use it for games really.
most people do not have the interest in learning a lot of steno theory, but what I want to make/gauge normie perception on is one half of a steno keyboard and use this dictionary:
https://github.com/Abkwreu/plover-left-hand-modifiers/blob/main/README.md
this dictionary allows every shortcut (and almost every key) to be typed in two strokes and using only the left hand with a 10-key keyboard.
there is actually very little memorization needed. just some additional letters that are not shown mostly.
numbers are in binary, so you need to know how that works, but once you do, you can enter f-keys/numpad/numbar. you have arrow keys too.
for example (each pic/cluster is one press, you have a good bit of time to press): https://i.imgur.com/7UICbye.png
i don't really care about keyboard shortcuts anymore because they are all almost the same difficulty to input.