I just got one of those ergonomically correct keyboards…a friend gave it to me… Have any of you used these before?? I am realizing exactly how improper my typing technique is…you really aren’t supposed to hit the"y" button with your left index finger…it’s quite a long stretch on an ergo keyboard. I have never been a very proper typer, but I’ve always been pretty quick at it…now I feel like I’m learning all over again! *!&@(#)@!!
Anybody else here have any experience with these?? My programmer boss has one and he absolutlely loves it…he couldn’t live without it (that and his Star Trek USS Enterprise mouse pad), my other boss despises them…what do you all think?
I don’t like them at all. They make it more difficult to play computer games where one hand is required on the mouse and the other on the keyboard. My typing too is not exactly perfect and it is annoying to have my finger hit an empty space instead of a button.
I absolutely love mine! When I’m not tinkering in the lab, I’m at the computer writing lab protocols & manuals. For me, the ergonomic keyboard allows me to type for hours on end with less fatigue than the traditional keyboard. It took me about a day or so to get used to the keyboard, but now I type on it faster than the straight keyboard. In fact, it feels odd to me to type on anything but an ergonomic keyboard.
I have not experienced the issues that benissimus finds annoying with this type of keyboard; however, I have been using the ergonomic keyboard for several years now.
My suggestion is not to give up on your new keyboard yet! give it a few days & you may be happily surprised. good luck!
I never though I would care about keyboards, until my pinkies and wrists started to hurt from typing. I got one of those “natural” keyboards and that helped a great deal. I use a standard keyboard at home but a “natural” one at work, and I think that change is useful, it means my wrists aren’t always in the same position.
At work, when other people sit down at my keyboard, some of them have terrible trouble. But I think it’s all a question of getting used to it. I had a hard time at first too, but after a few days of it being on the desk, I became accustomed to it. Now I don’t even think about it. The pinky pain never came back.
Someday I will experiment with a wackier ergonomic keyboard. I’d like to try a keyboard that splits in half, so you can separate right hand from left hand by as long a distance as you want. I think that might make things easier on the shoulders.
When I was a kid we didn’t have computers. So, at my school we had typing class, on a typewriter. (It’s hard for me to imagine it now, but we did all of our papers in high school on a regular typewriter, footnotes and all.) Yes, the Y key must be hit with the right hand, otherwise you get yelled at by your typing instructor.
If you’re referring to those ubiquitous wavy Microsoft Natural Keyboards, then I hate them. We had a lot of them at work, and I never liked using them, always sticking to the regular flat kind.
The only thing I do with my keyboard to make typing easier is use the Dvorak keyboard mapping. It’s so much easier/faster for me to type Dvorak than Qwerty. But it drives everyone else crazy when they want to use my computer.
And the only ergonomic style keyboard I might be inclined to try is one of those split keyboards where you can adjust the tilt horizontally and vertically. They’re just a bit more expensive than your average keyboard so I haven’t bought one yet.
I don’t much care for them. It would stop at that except I have to help people who do use them, and I’m reduced to hunt and peck typing whenever that happens. It slows me down terribly.
Has anyone invented an ergonomic two finger typing keyboard yet?
My boss has the ultimate answer, he speaks to his computer and it types for him. Until he gets a cold, then it types very strange things.
I’ve never tried one… I’d buy myself a better chair though, before I buy myself a new keyboard. But my dad thinks they are very good, he insisted on the firm buying him one.
give it a few days & you may be happily surprised. good luck!
