Hi all,
I fell into the mechanical keyboard rabbit hole from a very unusual direction. In my reckless youth I thought it was a good idea to repurpose the right Alt key (ISO AltGr) as a thumb key to type the letter E. Then I got really used to that and used this on many different cheap, non-mechanical keyboards, even laptops. Ten years later I got my first mechanical keyboard because I wanted a split with nicer thumb keys. And now I am typing on that split, it’s going great with my right thumb permanently resting on the letter E, always read to press down.
I know from seeing split ergo keycap pictures that other popular uses of thumb keys are Backspace, Shift, Ctrl or layer switches to use home-row navigation. (I also have that, it’s great!)
Now, the only sad thing is that I feel apprehension towards using laptop keyboards now. But I also sometimes like writing my diary in bed, some messages on the couch, or do some work on the train. So I went looking for a more compact, conventional looking keyboard that has at least two thumb keys… and it should be low-profile, because that’s the only thing my wrists tolerate.
Anyway, my post title was a question, so what’s your relationship to thumb keys?
