I accidentallyed on to an etsy search for diy/3Dprinted input devices. I didn't know things had gotten so wacky. There is a charm in it.
individual images as pictured above, with links
I only included general-purpose devices to be used with a computer. There are also a lot of similar that are more particular in scope, like for gaming or music.
https://www.etsy.com/listing/1235848485
https://www.etsy.com/listing/1794595199
https://www.etsy.com/listing/1611887621
https://www.etsy.com/listing/1455788841
https://www.etsy.com/listing/1708081897
https://www.etsy.com/listing/1745070932
https://www.etsy.com/listing/4390959934
https://www.etsy.com/listing/1818650330/
https://www.etsy.com/listing/4383876994
https://www.etsy.com/listing/4369697061
https://www.etsy.com/listing/1781943947
https://www.etsy.com/listing/1515191305
https://www.etsy.com/listing/4377100365
https://www.etsy.com/listing/1721444810
https://www.etsy.com/listing/1665096354
https://www.etsy.com/listing/1756466609
Anyone using, or tried using, any of these?
Split keyboards are awesome and way more comfortable to use. I have a corne. Shift and layers on my thumbs so I don't have to use my pinkies for anything and actual shoulder width spacing, no I will not use a normal keyboard anymore.
How long did it take you to get as proficient with it as a regular keyboard? Do they have mechanical kinds? Always been interested but feel like my brain would resist the transition.
It's pretty easy to type on one out of the box, but it takes a little longer to get comfortable with layers. The nice thing is that vial makes it really easy to remap keys so you can experiment easily. Moving shift keys to the thumbs was one of my first changes, followed by moving enter to the left pinky (most layouts have enter on the right thumb, I changed it to backspace). Then I wasn't sure what to do with parentheses, so I got comfortable with space cadet shifting (parens on tap, shift on hold). You can make it a gradual process, tweaking only a couple things at a time, and then the changes feel easier to manage.
Almost all split keyboards are mechanical, as far as I know of. I use Gazzew Boba silent switches and love 'em.