Sofle

Welcome! Yes, the ergo keyboard choices are overwhelming. This tour of split keyboards gives a quick overview of the sorts of hardware and firmware ergo features that split keyboards commonly have, which may help narrow down what does/doesn't interest you. For a newcomer, I suggest that a keyboard w

An AliExpress Corne or Sofle are often suggested as entry keyboards. I’d be tempted by a smaller one like the Forager. Assuming they’re following the published designs building your own firmware is worthwhile.

For those prices, you will absolutely have to build. I have little experience with 100% layout split boards, are you sure that's what you want? It seems like it would be rather difficult to craft unless you at least used a detached numpad, at least if you want it to be actually split in two. There m

Search for split keyboard in AliExpress, there are prebuilt ones like Corne, Sofle, Silakka, Cheapeno, etc. for good prices... Like 5$ on top of the materials for the keyboard, and if you don't have a soldering kit and other tools for a self build, then you are even on a plus (because a good kit is

IMHO, the Sofle is the easiest keyboard to transition to from a full keyboard. I was in the same boat and after much research decided on it. IMHO, the more keys the better as you learn what you need and what you don't. It's easy to just not use keys. I'm debating a cheap Ali Sofle Choc keyboard for

I have a Sofle from Keebart, but without the alu casing. It's decent build quality (my plastics case was clearly 3D printed but its stable enough). The support via the discord channel is good. It took a bit of time to get used to it coming from a regular full size keyboard. Shipping was really fast

I tried glove80 first for 6 months. I learned ortholinear layout. I didn't like the keywell. I liked the 6 thumb keys. I built Sofle with 6 thumb keys. Then I developed the thumb overuse injury and started to using home row mods. The layout was quite good but it was mx spaced and my thumb still didn

Oh hey, I thought you would be on vacation :o early happy Lunar New Year! Thanks for the suggestion, but I don't have the tools nor the skillset for that. The peak of my keyboard building skill is putting switches in the hot-swap socket. That's why I chose to buy the Sofle Hybrid from your store. It

Sofle is the go to beginner / fits all build imho. If you want to buy a sofle-like that you can assemble, check out Levels https://ergokeyboards.com/products/levels54-ergonomic-keyboard?variant=51184404529434 Any of the 52-60 key ergos will work fine. I don’t recommend a lily58 because the thumb clu

Unfortunately it's a rabbit hole as there are a lot of split orthos. If you like a columnar split Ortho I think a Helix would be good. However if you want a staggered-column Ortho a lily 58 or sofle may be better. Then there are what I call reduced key split orthos... Basically your choosing of layo