Is there an explanation for how a 45% keyboard works? Like, a link to how to type numbers?. Maybe I'm just retarded
the core idea is that using layers triggered by modifiers and fn keys, you can minimize the number of keys down to bare essentials and minimize how far your hands need to move to type what you need. an 8 is as easy to type on my preferred layout on 40%s as a capital K. it's a different way of typing that minimizes that "hunt-and-peck" moment when you have to be think "ah ****, is ^ on the 4 or the 6" by allowing you to construct a set of layers where you know exactly where it is without looking down. it isn't for everyone, but it's just a bit further down the road than the compromises people make when they move from like a TKL to a 60% keyboard. i write code and daily driver the keyboards that i create, and now all of my keyboards are 50% layouts or smaller. like everything in this community, it's down to preference
Where do YOU assign the last missing letters like ] or ' ?
my bottom row is punctuation on the second layer of most of my layouts, and left spacebar is always my Fn key. that way with left space and maaybe shift I can do everything I need to. I hover around 90-100WPM without difficulty. What are your layouts like?
First time sub-HHKB so having hard time imagining the best make-sense-for-myself layout while I use the missing letters quite frequently.
For me, downsizing is more to remove infrequently used keys instead of better reachability.
Maybe 'fn+right side mod = missing letter' is what I should go with.
If I didn't lose those ones, I was thinking having the left space as backspace and control keys as second layer for fn and num keys, which makes perfect sense for me.
That's why I asked you if you can add those at the very beginning of this IC.
Still Cajal is too attractive so I'm also thinking, if I don't get accustomed to this layout, let's just hang it on the wall
Are you working hard on your next 50+% board?