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 :)

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.

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

same 😁 weteor’s designs are always 👌

Thank you Bubble! 💚

Got all of it through a mini-groupbuy, so just one set of components for me… I bet you’d find other people to share with, though! 😊

Afaik, there’s only a few models that you can use the switches of… Here’s some more details: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/19UCdgpzgFKxGdhGBXevc7OxsyMYAmwKew-pMzkjfXtI/htmlview

it’s aptmak plus random caps on the keys i don’t use :)

Probably more ergonomic than a non-Alice rowstagger :)

The one I got was so dusty, it was mostly scratchy… I just took off the caps and put the rest into storage for later 😅

pretty much, yea! The Gabriele used cherry MY switches iirc, and the stems are very similar :)

It’s quite the chonker 😅

huh, wouldn’t have thought another lily/sofle-like makes sense to offer, but ig i’m too far removed from commercially available layouts to really have a reasonable intuition 😅

fancy features i enjoy a lot:

• home row mods
• numpad layer
• nav layer with arrows, home, end, pg up/dn, vol/brightness controls
• backspace on combo
• ctrl+backspace on combo
• del on combo
• capsword feature
• layer-taps on all thumb keys
• vertical combos for parenthetical symbols (although that may not be very usable on rowstagger boards)

I only soldered the mcu module and the hs sockets. Usually also prefer seperate mcu board for flexibility and repairability

Oh, sure! And maybe post some pics of your own chiffs, too! 😏

it’s just the legends, i’m not typing katakana with it 😅

For getting that feeling folks often recommend printing out the layout and testing how comfortable it feels on paper (of course not gping to be 100% accurate but i’ve heard it helps a lot)