That’s why I have a vertical mouse and I built a split vertical keyboard!
I have tried the vertical keyboard setup but I quickly found it painful to keep my wrists off the desk (plus the two sides kept sliding…). How do you manage?
At the bottom of the photo, there are two wrist rests I built out of some spare wood and a wrist rest off of Amazon that I cut in half with a saw and then stitched/glued closed so it doesn’t look like hell.
The keyboard halves are stuck to some phone stands using an adhesive Magsafe ring, and the stands are stuck down to the black steel plate with some flat magnets and grippy silicone. The entire thing breaks down in seconds and I can store it to bring to the office. The steel plate is the most annoying thing to transport.
Happy to answer other questions!
Oh that’s clever! I will definitely try with wrist rests, thanks!
The steel plate is the most annoying thing to transport.
Yeah I can imagine. Maybe you could keep a second one on-site, that way you’d only have to move the keyboard. :)
Yeah exactly. I kept a second one on-site until I went 95% remote.
The phone stands also let me get precise adjustment on the height of the keyboards, so they feel like they’re lined up:
That’s kinda crazy until you realize it’s not.
It completely eliminated the pain in my elbow and forearm that I would get while typing on a flat keyboard
It helps, there’s no doubt. Happy for you that you were able to get rid of the pain.
For those with wrist and forearm pain they may vertical mice. My wife and I converted to them and they eliminated my pain completely.
Make* not may, oops
So we should stop using the mouse and switch to rats?
That’s a rat.
I have never had a problem with a normal mouse and keyboard. It is all the ergonomic ones that tire me out, or make me uncomfortable.
