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

I have the keebart sofle pro but without aluminium casing. I chose it instead of the voyager for the same reason, i live in germany and voyager would have costed around 420Euro and i payed 260 for keebart. I wish i payed 90 extra for the alu case to feel more premium. It is light and works very well

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

Trying to answer your questions:- was it worth it ? 100%. Moving to split mechanical keyboard isn't something you'll regret, and you can get some for much cheaper than 200 euros.- How long was the learning curve? Honestly, much shorter than I thought. I started with a Sofle so it wasn't that disrupt

there is lot of that on aliexpress, i had sofle from simillar source and it works fine, corne, even Charybdis, look like someone up thee is taking/ stealing designs from github etc and they are selling assembled product, mine sofle came with firmware flashed, i just added switches and keycaps, works

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