Oh awesome. I've got a Glove80 some weeks ago. Trained for 30 minutes a day until I felt that I can completely switch to it as my daily driver. It's harder to adjust to that kind of keyboard than I expected. Still not as fast as I was with my normal keyboard though.
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Yeah, it is painful hahaha. I forced myself to do 2 hours today, but I’ll go for 30 minutes a day as well.
The split layout isn’t such a problem for me, as I was pretty good with 10 fingers already, but layers are difficult man…
The split layout is the best feature. The way my arms rest when typing feels so much more natural because I can adjust the distance between the two halves.
Layers are the hardest to get into. 😆 The Glove80 doesn't force me to use them, though. I was not brave enough to go fully minimalist 😬. It basically is a full sized keyboard. Only the numpad is missing. Right now I use layers only for keys I need to control my window manager.
Yep, I fell in love with it immediately haha. I was sooo close to getting the Glove80, but the idea of getting something way cheaper and being able to learn soldering while doing it really appealed to me
I might get one of the cheaper ones later because the Glove80 is not very portable. That's probably the biggest downside of it.