Day two. I've redone the modifiers, and I think I like it, but there are several keys I consistently miss. Anything below or over from my left index finger, and oddly - the space bar. Also I'm still getting a lot of spurious keystrokes as my fingers, recognizing they're untrained, flail about madly in search of something, anything, to hit in hopes it will turn out to be the right key.
But on the whole of it, I find the split-hand design refreshing, even if I'm continually pounding the bare case with the index of the wrong hand. With practice, the correct amount of reach will become natural.
At the moment, it feels like I should move the backspace in one -- I'm using it
way more than TAB. And familiarity aside, that may be the norm for me; I'm uncertain. But what strikes me about it, is that I'm over reaching with my left thumb, and under-reaching with my right; also slamming the bare case (thank heavens for stainless steel's high hardness-rating).
My pinky finger sometimes gets confused by the columnar stagger, too. Again, practice, and so far it's nothing to dissuade me from the inherent
rightness of a two-handed, fully programmable keyboard.
I will say that the phone cord I'm using to talk between the halves is prone to getting very warm after a time sitting or typing, or presumably any halfway point in between. So: word to the wise, don't skimp on wire gauge, as heavier, will last longer.
So: that's your review of the ergodox from me. I've adjusted the keycaps so that, by and large, they're in the right spot -- modifiers & punctuation too. This helps for when I'm trying desperately to teach my left hand where the alt-key is...that's the ScrollLock key.
Also, the laughing man is 'delete' & Thundercats hold AltGr.
I suppose I should try to get a decent picture of it, now. it's almost a unicorn vomit board. Certainly when my MD blue doubleshots come in, it will purport to be such.