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

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

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

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

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

I want this keyboard very badly! My ergo journey: Generic staggered split w membrane switches on a single board and a bigass enter with PS2 connector. I used the hell out of this one until it finally gave up the ghost. Kinesis Advantage 2. Could never get used to the keywells. Mistell Borroco MD600.

I recently bought a Sofle (my first mechanical and first split). Here are my thougts after 1.5 months: Print the keyboard on a sheet of paper to see whether it fits your hands size. In retrospective, I wish that the Sofle had a more aggressive column stagger. Now, I would buy a different one (maybe

I was already using a 75% keyboard, so for me the transition is probably easier.However, with layer you can easily recreate the equivalent of numpad, and assign useful symbol or shortcut to each keyi.e. letter O is also ~ and _You may need time to arrange each symbols, but the improvement is enormou

If you want something pre-built for starters, there are many keyboards - e.g. Silakka54 and various takes on Sofle can be bought for pretty cheap and are a great way to dip your toes in columnar stagger. And then you can later move on to/build a fancier keyboard once you have a better idea of how ma