u/PeteToscano

Adjusting: Me or the Layout?

I purchased a ZSA Voyager a few weeks ago. I've been using it every day since it arrived. This is my first split/ergo/etc. keyboard and I love it. It's beautiful and solid. (Nice work, ZSA!)

I realize that switching over from a regular keyboard is going to take some time; I need to be patient and relearn what's mostly been muscle memory for decades. Initially, I went into Oryx and made a slew of changes that I felt were better for my uses. Since then, outside of a few other changes that immediately felt wrong, I've been trying to not change much, assuming that most of the frustration/annoyance is related to retraining myself and not a suboptimal layout. (Okay, I stuck with QWERTY, so a _more_ suboptimal layout. ;)

So, I ask you all, how do you tell if some of the consistent mistakes, failures to trigger combos, or tap-hold issues are simply needing more practice vs. bad layout decisions? At what point do I stop trying to drill that left paren location into my muscle memory and move it elsewhere?

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u/PeteToscano — 11 days ago