MechaniKeebs

aight i want one of these real bad, who's interested in a group buy if i'm building? 

hoping to keep landed cost under $150/each. 

https://youtu.be/YwsutNf1WRA&t=334

If Caden is excited about a new keyboard, it's gonna be a banger.

This is a 5 column staggered ergo split wireless keyboard, and he's offering to assemble??

I'm in for my first new keeb since the NovaTouch TKL I got in 2016!

father, husband, css golfer, ux engineer, silently defining variables as /sdv sdv.wtf

oh man, the swag on the TOTEM is *filthy*

clean? compact? classy? cuh-check. 

are there sick Corne builds? absolutely! its probably the most popular layout in the entire split keeb universe!

but the TOTEM is hot by *default*

it's 4 fewer keys than a 6-column Corne, but 2 more keys than the 5-column variety, and those 2 keys are pinky shifts (hallelujah!)

both are staggered columns, but TOTEM boasts a more aggressive stagger and a "splay" where the outside columns fan out instead of staying parallel

i love my Corne-ish Zen to death (i literally just built two more keyboards and i still came right back to it, mostly because it's so low-profile) but I've always wanted a more aggressive stagger. i've got gigantic hands and the quest for maximum ergo is basically a predator drive at this point.

and i've always wanted to go down to a 5-column board, but would maybe rather eat dorm room refrigerator mold than retrain decades of apostrophe muscle memory, lol

Swag comparison vs the popular Corne

https://warpcast.com/cbxm/0x95c857dd

My guess: pretty hard

Would defer to @cbxm or someone else who's made the leap

What is the learning curve for re-learning how to touch type with one of these?