Re: Re: Staggered or not ???

"Giles Orr" <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.hardware.altkeyboards
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On 5/5/07, dmwhetstone <[email protected]> wrote:
> I realize I'm a bit late to this conversation, but I thought the fact
>  that you rotate your keyboard is interesting.  When I'm typing on a
>  staggered keyboard, I rotate it about 15 degrees counter-clockwise.  I
>  find that it puts the keys in line with my right hand, at the expense
>  of my left.  I don't know why, but I find this to be more comfortable.

I can tell you exactly why I do the same thing: I'm left-handed and
I've had a lot of problems with carpal tunnel in my right (weaker)
wrist.  When I'm stuck on a straight keyboard - I use an "ergonomic"
one at home - I tend to rotate the keyboard to straighten out my right
wrist which needs the help considerably more than my left.  What also
helped was stopping wearing a watch when I'm typing: again, being
left-handed, I wore it on the right.  Resting my wrist on the band was
probably not helpful.

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