Re: Kinesis Spacebar Difficulties

I have two Kinesis Advantage keyboards, one at work and one at home -
so I use them all day every day.  I've never found anything wrong with
the positioning of the space bar - I find it more "natural" than that
on a standard keyboard.  That is, I lay my fingers onto the home row
and my thumb naturally drops onto the spacebar.  How does the back
space feel?  It's mirror image.  My first thought on this is that the
keyboard somehow snuck past quality assurance with the space key
higher than it should be.  Look closely at the layout of the back
space compared to the space bar, and compare the "feel" of the two.

Another possibility that occurs to me (although unlikely) is that
you're not curling your fingers enough - just a thought.  The Kinesis
calls for the fingers to be more curled than on a traditional
keyboard.  Try positioning your hands with your palms closer to the
home row perhaps?

Hope this helps.

On 5 January 2011 07:41, S Bjornstad <[email protected]> wrote:
> My mother has some difficulties with using a computer, mostly neck and shoulder pain. She thought she would try a Kinesis Contoured keyboard to see if it helped. In general, she seems to love the keyboard, but the spacebar is giving her trouble--namely, it feels a bit too high and not at the right angle, and her thumb starts to hurt after a little while. Naturally, it's a slightly different position than the spacebar on a normal flat keyboard.
>
> Out of curiosity, I picked up the board and tried it out for a while, and lo and behold, I had the same problem--my thumb started hurting after using it for only a few minutes. In general, I love this keyboard, but if this continues there's no way either of us can use it.
>
> So, to people who have used the Kinesis keyboard:
> 1) Did you have any similar problems (or any sort of discomfort like this) when you started using this keyboard?
> 2) Did said problems go away, or what did you do to fix them?
> 3) Have you ever heard of other people with the same problem? I couldn't find any similar complaints after a little bit of Google searching.
>
> Thanks for your feedback!

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