Well I say that but that was for me. Everyone’s ergonomics are different. In the end it turned out that a large source of my wrist pain was reclining my chair too far.
i feel like a split would be amazing for gaming (just put away the half you aren’t using and have all the mouse room)
but i can imagine getting annoyed and tinkering with the position too much otherwise 
sticking with my tkl for now, i like the nav cluster for editing source code, cant live without the home, end, and pgdwn keys
I don’t PC game any more. My keyboard is basically exclusively for coding.
The other thing that helped me a lot was a vertical mouse.
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Some people wrote on reddit it took them months to switch and it was a nightmare… Personally I needed a week to be as proficient as usual and a month to be more comfortable than on the ‘normal’ keyboard.
Some time ago I switched back to staggered layout and then back to ortho and I must say I prefer ortho. Btw. I should start trading assembled Planck keyboards for yoyos 
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Got some new switches and stabilizers in my home keyboard. Filmed and lubed Holy Panda X, Phantom Stabilizers, Cherry profile PBT keycaps, Z70 ultra with foam/silicone damping kit.
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thats some serious asmr loop fodder
Been using these for over 10 years. Currently using LF version with Cherry MX Quiet Red switches:
If I were buying a new one today, would probably go for the newer split version:
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does it not bug you that home row is DSA and the rest is oem/cherry?
I just gave away a Kinesis Advantage at work. I used one as my daily driver for a few months.
Apparently not. What’s the difference with the home row keys?
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They are a different profile.
https://www.reddit.com/r/MechanicalKeyboards/comments/qgbm31/keycaps_profile_pros_and_cons
It’s to work with the shape of the cups.
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Sheesh, this is the complete opposite of my keyboard.
I really need to get a set of XDA blank caps eventually. I wish it was easier to get POM keycaps in different profiles. Alice layout makes anything other than uniform profiles feel really bad imo.
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Those sound like box clicky’s, yes? Guessing jade based on sound lol. I love the box clicky switches. The Alice layout looks great, I have a bunch of extra caps and switches, I should try one out
Edit: I should have read the title of your video LOL. I have some box jades so I know and love those switches LOL. Thick click bar >>>>
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I have too many sets of switches. I’ve got hako royal true and clear, halo true, box jade and navy, box royal, the first and only clear housing mx clears, and the holy panda x’s lol
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Box jades are unreal for how satisfying they make typing.
I went straight from using cherry blues for years to these and I never wanna go back. These are actually the only non-Cherry switches I’ve ever used. They just seem so perfect to me that I’ve got no desire to try anything else.
Alice layout is super nice but it really takes a lot of adjustment to get used to, and at least imo being forced to use uniform profile caps is kinda stinky. The angle and stagger of the layout makes non-uniform profiles feel like the height is just off and it’s changing at places where it physically shouldn’t. Maybe other people can adjust to it better than me, but honestly I don’t mind XDA caps. I just really wish there were more options because everything is so ugly (I hate how my keyboard looks and desperately need new caps LOL)
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The Box Jade is a super nice switch. The extra tactility from the thick click bar, plus those double clicks makes a world of difference.
There are some really good colors of DSA out there, its another flat profile with a nice dish for the fingers. KAM is another flat profile that I havent tried yet, but looks pretty nice and I’ve seen some good ones.
I’d recommend checking out KPRepublic, KBDFans, and Novelkeys, those are some of my fav sites
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I’ve never tried KAM but DSA I think has too small of a surface area on the top of the keys. I conceptually like that they’re shorter, but the smaller top bits are just really uncomfortable.
I checked like all of the keycap websites but couldn’t really find specifically what I want (POM XDA blanks). I really like using my keyboard, and I’m definitely a mechanical keyboard fan, but all I want is more material options for blank caps in weird profiles than just PBT/ABS. I just ordered some ugly clearance sets like the ones I’m using currently to try different profiles.
Keyboard caps being so aesthetic driven also seems kinda funny to me because anybody who doesn’t use QWERTY just kinda feels like they’re left out of the game, even if they do enjoy the visual aspect of keyboards.
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I really hate that this thread revived, because now I want something else that I don’t need.
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