My third(ish) build and favorite so far.

  • QwertyKeys Neo Ergo board
  • Keygeek Cheese V2 linear switches
  • Keykobo Dolch key caps
  • (still waiting on the palm wrest but I might carve my own)
    • ContriteErudite@lemmy.world
      2·
      13 days ago

      I’ve preferred ergo keyboards for years and just bought my first Alice last year. I love it, but have always felt that there was something about it that didn’t feel right. Your build made me realize that I’m missing a tented ergo keyboard. Thanks for the post and the parts list!

  • fvlegacy@lemmy.world
    3·
    13 days ago

    Gorgeous! Dolch is my favorite colorway and silver boards always look great.

    I’m mostly retired from the hobby at this point but I’ve always wanted a TGR Alice. Absolutely beautiful board.

  • thatsnomayoBannedB
    3·
    14 days ago

    Is there a guide for what kind of keyboard to get based on the size of your hands? How did you settle on this layout? It looks interesting. I have a habit of hammering away with bad handwriting and typing for years, I recently fixed my handwriting and removed the half-cursiveness

    • rektdeckard@lemmy.worldOP
      1·
      13 days ago

      I didn’t read much on the subject, but I have tried and owned keyboards of several sizes. At first I thought I couldn’t live without function keys and a numpad, but you stop missing them real soon once you get used to customizing layers. So I bought a TKL (80% size) board and loved it. Then I started experimenting with smaller boards and weird arrangements, and drew the line at ortho layout – not only was it not teaching me to be a better typist, it also felt like it was bad for my wrists. I don’t have carpal tunnel or RSI and hadn’t had any issues with normal layouts so I wasn’t looking for anything ergonomic until I tried a friend’s Alice keyboard. It just clicked, I felt like I could actually keep my hands on the home row, there were few enough keys I could reach them all without looking, but enough that normal typing didn’t require weird chords and stuff.

      Try some things out at Micro Center or whatever and see what you like

  • Victor@lemmy.world
    2·
    13 days ago

    Ever tried something else than QWERTY? I’m on Colemak-DH since about a year or so and it’s pretty great. 🙂 I imagine that could be great with a keyboard like this.

    • rektdeckard@lemmy.worldOP
      2·
      13 days ago

      Never have. Do you find it hard to switch back and forth if you ever have to use laptop keyboard / somebody else’s computer?

      • Victor@lemmy.world
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        13 days ago

        Great question. Not “hard”, no. 🙂 I’ve been using QWERTY for almost 40 years, so that’s pretty ingrained. Like riding a bike. Also I’m still on QWERTY on my phone.

        But, I do type slower on a regular keyboard nowadays. Partly because I changed my layout, and partly because the ZSA Voyager, which is my main keyboard, is both split and column-staggered, rather than row-staggered like most keyboards. It’s hard to go back to rowstag after getting used to colstag. Rowstag just feels so incredibly wrong. Not at all meant for a human hand. 🤖