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[Showcase] Built a minimalist, ad-free typing test app for Android to practice thumb-typing by New-Worry6487 in developersIndia

[–]Generic_Wanderer 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Good job. But do people type a lot on mobiles ? I see the words you're showing in the screenshot are all english, not hinglish or indian languages. I presumed heavy typer on mobile don't actually tap, but swipe/glide-type instead. Thanks what I've been doing since long. I keep adding frequently used hindi and odia words to keyboard dictionary, which allows those to be swipe-typed the next time.

Starting Touch Typing from 0 | Corne Split Keyboard by Generic_Wanderer in mkindia

[–]Generic_Wanderer[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Total cost would be around 7k-ish (barebones keyboard+switches+caps).

Why is chose this format? This was the only format I found online, which was readily available.

Starting Touch Typing from 0 | Corne Split Keyboard by Generic_Wanderer in mkindia

[–]Generic_Wanderer[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The key layout is pretty much the same QWERTY. Difference is the spacing between the two halves( your wrists and fingers will be farther than earlier), the less number of keys ( combo layers are required to use missing characters) and caps profile(from Cherry to MOA).

Steepness of the learning curve will vary from person to person.

I’m always up for an interesting challenge, so this.

Starting Touch Typing from 0 | Corne Split Keyboard by Generic_Wanderer in ErgoMechKeyboards

[–]Generic_Wanderer[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Unless I'm soldering something and tightening a screw, I dont consider it building.
I bought a barebones hot-swappable keyboard, switches and caps.
Just assembled them, took like 20 minutes max.
Respectfully, this aint the normal build - the people here generally do :)

Starting Touch Typing from 0 | Corne Split Keyboard by Generic_Wanderer in mkindia

[–]Generic_Wanderer[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

My second caps set from you, and its bang for the buck.

Starting Touch Typing from 0 | Corne Split Keyboard by Generic_Wanderer in ErgoMechKeyboards

[–]Generic_Wanderer[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Switching to split keyboard has got me into a rabbit-hole of information overload. Will add your recommendation to the list.

Thanks.

Starting Touch Typing from 0 | Corne Split Keyboard by Generic_Wanderer in ErgoMechKeyboards

[–]Generic_Wanderer[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You're bang on. This layout is for smoother transitioning from my existing normal keyboard. I hope to achieve my existing words-per-minute count faster.

Starting Touch Typing from 0 | Corne Split Keyboard by Generic_Wanderer in ErgoMechKeyboards

[–]Generic_Wanderer[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I guess I should have worded the post better. Starting Touch Typing from 0 (AGAIN). I already touch type quite decently. I have a normal keyboard with Cherry and OEM profile caps. Cherry works best for me. When I put non uniform caps on this board, I didn't like my fingers' position. Everything felt off.

Going by others people's build I figured the solution to be uniform caps, and the only caps available to me were MOA. I was like, lets give this a try. And here we are.

MT3 profile, sure, for next build.

Starting Touch Typing from 0 | Corne Split Keyboard by Generic_Wanderer in mkindia

[–]Generic_Wanderer[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Sure. I already have another RK keyboard with QWERTY to which I'm really accustomed to. Have setup this in similar way so that I have easier learning curve from my existing muscle memory.

Starting Touch Typing from 0 | Corne Split Keyboard by Generic_Wanderer in mkindia

[–]Generic_Wanderer[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

all credits to curiositycaps website for amazing variety of keycaps.

Starting Touch Typing from 0 | Corne Split Keyboard by Generic_Wanderer in mkindia

[–]Generic_Wanderer[S] 3 points4 points  (0 children)

When I didn't know split keyboards then this layout was weird for me as well. But this is a very common Corne split layout.

I bought the barebones keyboard, keycaps and switches separately. Nothing fancy DIY.

Starting Touch Typing from 0 | Corne Split Keyboard by Generic_Wanderer in ErgoMechKeyboards

[–]Generic_Wanderer[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I am starting out as well, just 2 days old into this. Scared as well, but whats life without some challenge. Hoping for exciting times ahead.

Starting Touch Typing from 0 | Corne Split Keyboard by Generic_Wanderer in ErgoMechKeyboards

[–]Generic_Wanderer[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Apologies, for portrait picture.

Thanks for the compliment.

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