This is a really good read, thanks for sharing it! I’m currently in the process of deciding how to move forward with the sale of the keyboard I designed so this is all really relevant information for me.

Here it is! (Sorry I’m guessing imgur wasn’t really what you had in mind when you said not a centralized platform)

Honestly it was a joke that got out of hand

Oh yeah I can upload it to imgur or something

Well said

Haha it was at my wife’s family cottage for decades and we tried to sell it in a garage sale but nobody wanted it so it’s been sitting in our basement for several years. I had a SNES and N64 hooked up to it for a while but didn’t play them much so now it’s back in the basement.

Also getting a screenshot of a typing test on it was kind of a huge pain and I probably did it in the most convoluted way possible. But in the end I was super happy with how the shot turned out, especially since a friend of mine made this insanely cool video out of it.

In a good way or a bad way?

I’m almost always on Mac so I don’t need Ctrl much but it is in a layer when I do need it.

It’s honestly really useful having the three keys off to the right. You can just map them to macros or something.

I write JavaScript on the tiny ones so I have to type a lot of () and {} and stuff. It took me a little while to get used to.

Also I have them mapped so that QAZ are Esc, Tab, Shift. So all letters are accounted for on layer 0.

Even for people who do touch type, there’s a definite learning curve when you move to a 40% or lower board. I found that the muscle memory starts to build up pretty quickly so after a bit of stumbling around I got used to smaller keyboards without too much trouble. The main problem now is when I try to write code on anything larger than a 40% I make constant typos.

It started as a joke for my friend who doesn’t understand how I use a 35% but then some people seemed interested so I actually made it.

I’ve been using it for about a month now and use the QAZ keys for macros. I have tried actually using them as Q, A, and Z, too and it was actually easier than I expected.

I just never type words with those letters.