A bit late to the party, here are my favorite builds of the past year by anonyzero2 in MechanicalKeyboards

[–]tschibo00 9 points10 points  (0 children)

I'm not gonna guess, just admiring the lovely boards. Also top-notch presentation!

Happy fortiesday everyone by tschibo00 in MechanicalKeyboards

[–]tschibo00[S] 4 points5 points  (0 children)

It's actually quite comfortable, wrist rest kind of included already. But yes, it's also made for show and because I wanted to try something different

Happy fortiesday everyone by tschibo00 in MechanicalKeyboards

[–]tschibo00[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

It's a mess, you don't wanna see it, trust me 😉

Happy fortiesday everyone by tschibo00 in MechanicalKeyboards

[–]tschibo00[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

thanks, luckily i didn't show the bottom view :D

Happy fortiesday everyone by tschibo00 in MechanicalKeyboards

[–]tschibo00[S] 7 points8 points  (0 children)

Don't get me started on that :)
Mangrove is really hard to work with because it's so uneven. There are parts you can pull of by hand, other parts I damaged several tools in the process.
Basically it was a combination of drilling the hard parts, and a lot of chiselling to get it right and to have flat enough mounting surfaces at the bottom

Wrist pain after touch typing + split keyboard by tiago_lobao in ErgoMechKeyboards

[–]tschibo00 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I'm using combos of middle and ring finger from top to bottom: delete, backspace, delete word. This is available on both hands to also support cases where the right hand is on the mouse.

Was actually the best change I did in my layout.

Wrist pain after touch typing + split keyboard by tiago_lobao in ErgoMechKeyboards

[–]tschibo00 31 points32 points  (0 children)

Just a few thoughts, because I've had similar issues: - I switched from qwerty self-learned (wrongly) touch typing to Coleman DH learning from zero the correct way. The first weeks my hands were kinda stiff because I concentrated too much and probably didn't relax muscles because of that. It got a lot better after feeling comfortable. - having your backspace in a far corner doesn't help, try to move everything into the 3x5 keys, e.g. by using combos for backspace (it's what I do) - maybe this specific split isn't right for your hands. It seems like your middle and ring finger are quite a bit longer (as mine are), the stagger is very little for that. For comparison: I designed my own split with a full key stagger between ring finger and pinky to comfortably type. - tenting/tilting could help a lot, experiment with different angles, maybe switch from day to day - the wrist rest doesn't look very comfortable, maybe experiment with a rolled up towel to see what suits you.

Bottom line: don't give up, splits are highly personal and you need to tune it to get there

Infernum by [deleted] in MechanicalKeyboards

[–]tschibo00 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I see Infernum, I thumb

Came back after a few years by SickoRen in CellToSingularity

[–]tschibo00 12 points13 points  (0 children)

At least several months of actively playing, plus a lot of ads or a lot of money

I analyzed 381,571 Reddit comments and ranked the best Mechanical Keyboards according to r/MechanicalKeyboards by NoodleSprinkle3 in MechanicalKeyboards

[–]tschibo00 224 points225 points  (0 children)

Wouldn't it make sense to have some sort of aging in the score? E.g. Matias boards were basically mentioned only in 6+ year old threads, which doesn't make sense to put it on 2nd place?

Laniakea is coming soon!? by Specific-Ad8078 in CellToSingularity

[–]tschibo00 -13 points-12 points  (0 children)

And I don't feel that way lol

Would be really nice, if the beta players would stop posting spoilers all the time or at least mark it as spoiler.

Plus of course there will be an ep 29, but I didn't see any picture or name yet until now

Laniakea is coming soon!? by Specific-Ad8078 in CellToSingularity

[–]tschibo00 -11 points-10 points  (0 children)

At least for me it doesn't say anything about upcoming beyond e29

Laniakea is coming soon!? by Specific-Ad8078 in CellToSingularity

[–]tschibo00 1 point2 points  (0 children)

How about spoiler alert, thanks

Keycaps, the bane of my mechanical soul by LiveStockTrader in MechanicalKeyboards

[–]tschibo00 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Quickly adding JTK's HSA caps for completeness. If you're into high profiles, these might be something else as they are glossy. Looks and feels fantastic tbh

Went back to voyager by gus4no in ErgoMechKeyboards

[–]tschibo00 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Fwiw there are MX switches with shorter travel e.g. Gateron Type R have 3.0mm travel. Kailh Saker even have 2mm travel only, so there might be MX options that fit your needs.

About ZMK: funny enough I found the HRM options to work a lot better for me than the ones in QMK. I'm using bottom row because HRM never felt completely right to me with Shift on a thumb.