Model: OLKB Planck
Switches: Cherry MX Blue

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      It can be difficult to transition to. But, I went hard mode (I decided to learn touch typing rather than the blind four fingered hunt and peck I’d been doing for years), so I switched from standard qwerty to ortholinear Dvorak, so your mileage may vary.

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    Wow, when I first opened the image it was squished to 50% width, each key looked like a piano key. That was a real wtf moment.

    Beautiful looking keyboard

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    Serious question: How do you type on flat profile without having your hands hurt? I could never get use to flat keys and spherical work the best.

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      I don’t know how to answer you exactly. My hands don’t hurt. Maybe it’s because of the combo of the ortholinear keyboard and the Dvorak layout causing me to move my fingers minimally.

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        That could be it. Also mechanical keys probably play a role. I had a laptop with flat keys and within a week of use I had to start lugging my keyboard around with me.

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          Yeah, I had a MacBook once with really flat keys and no travel when you pressed a key. After an hour of using it I felt like I had been typing on concrete.

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      Not OP, but I also use flat keycaps, so I thought I’d chime in. I’m not really sure why your hands would hurt with flat keycaps, but one of the reasons I chose to use flats were to allow for easier chording with Plover.

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    This looks so inconvenient. Glad you like it, but this is 'awful taste, great execution" for me.

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    1 year ago

    Looks nice! I daily drove something like this for a couple of years, then transitioned to a split ortholinear layout, so a bit different but pretty much the same thing.

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    Has a 3d printed feel from the photo. Did you make the whole thing, case, pcb, keycaps?

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    Hot swappable? I’m wondering if the sockets are what make the keys sit slightly off square and even, couldn’t be the key caps could it?

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      All the keys being so square and uniform leads you to notice places where it’s not exactly perfect. It is annoying.

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    Like the look. I really want to give ortho a try one day. On some level, it is what keyboards should have been all along. The current shifted design was just due to technical limitations, where you needed to shift the keys to make sure old type writers could work. This day and age, it’s just a historical holdover.