Yep, inverse left-hand row stagger counts. Katana60 and µTron style.
Give it a go, but have patience. Don’t start during a particularly busy time at work, and be prepared to switch out your keyboard for a full sized one for 30 minutes when you get frustrated.
If you’re going directly from 104 keys, it’s going to be a big change. It will take time to build the muscle memory. But good luck!
Agree. I made the big mistake to switch from a full sized, but split (Microsoft Sculpt) keyboard on the German standard QWERTZ layout to a fully split ortholinear with 36 keys in Mine-Layout, with Home-Row-Mods pretty much in one go and without taking enough time per day to really train (on AgileFingers or Keybr.com). It took me more than a year to get back to barely acceptable typing speeds but I always had the feeling to be worse off if I would go back and start over.
My advise would be to change only a few things at a time and get comfortable before changing the next thing, but since you are already trying out Miryoku, I can only wish for your success (others have done a switch as big as the one I did without any problems), and to have fun with it.
Yep. I went from 104 keys to the split MS ergo keyboard, to an ErgoDox, at which point I learned Dvorak. I then gradually dropped some keys before building my own 40 key split. I’ve since dropped 4 keys off that to get down to 36, which I’ve been using as a daily driver at work for about a year. I’m just about to build a new split with 24 keys. Really not sure how well it will work, but figured I’d give it a go. Trying to find that balance between too few keys vs too much hand movement.
