It’s definitely about comfort, but i’ve also never been faster on any other board. Gotta admit I’m not a fast typist, with around 80wpm.

I’ve been using Zilpzalp basically exclusively for over a year, at this point I don’t think I’ll ever find a more comfortable board :)

aptmak btw

started out with an Architeuthis Dux, never regretted it :)

Addendum to 1: While QMK is nice, I personally prefer ZMK and use it even on my wired boards. So just wanna say, “forced to use” sounds a bit harsh. ZMK is a great and very capable firmware, and it does certain things better than QMK.

Well I won’t have any problems with doctors I suppose

So cool! Love the roundings, especially around the trackball 👌👌👌 And also Chicago Steno is such bliss 😌

Ergogen is so good 👌 Writing the firmware is surprisingly easy thanks to zmk / qmk :) Fingers crossed for the future work!

Sure, here you go:

so what you’re saying is… moving your arm outwards to use the mouse is more ergonomic than moving it inwards? 🤔

yeah i understand that :D just saying, combos are harder to activate than single key presses

i’d rather so a+z=q, gotta have them high-frequency letters on base! but qwerty isn’t really a good fit for such reduced layouts at all 😅

Since others already posted the larger variants… I’m partial to the Rommana.

i see :) well CS is definitely my favourite choc profile, so i can see how it would also work uniformly!

oh interesting! why only r3? 👀

Awesome! Can’t wait to try it 😊

it really is very nice 😌

you got the order reversed there, get the board first to be motivated to learn typing on it! :)

I have them on almost all of my MX boards, and Chcago Steno on the choc ones :)
genuinely goated profile

so, ummm…

(obviously not final, just a quick mock-up)