Perhaps I misunderstand, can you explain in what sort of situations it is sub-optimal?

Thanks, u/w0lfwood for all your support!

This build is beautiful with the Chicago Steno caps. I'm printing up what I hope is the last row for mine too using your SCAD TP cutout mods.

And I had no idea idea that there is so much variety on the custom TP caps! It looks like you might have found the high quality solution for black and white caps.

I think you misunderstand, my gripe is with ops title not with 40% boards.

You can type 130 word per minute because your board has a key for each letter just like any other layout. It's not suboptimal for typing, its the same. It is however suboptimal at everything else, because it doesn't have the keys for that.

Hahaha, yes.

100% users coping

I know where all of my punctuation and symbols are and don't need to move my hands across the board to access them them. My typing gets worse on a regular board because I need to move my arms more. I remember my layouts and don't have issues with them, I make them work for me. It comes as easy as holding Shift to type a capital letter.

What's your excuse?

If you are interested in ortholinear, Drop just got the Planck rev. 7 in and it's on sale right now for $99. You'd still need switches and keycaps but it's hotswap and QMK ready and even comes with encoder support.

My vote goes for the mercutio. It's designed to be base kit compatible if you're not splitting any keys, and it's otherwise super comfy and easy to transition to. Caveat is that it's a soldered kit, but it's a very easy kit to learn on (and if the usb-c pins are intimidating, you can have it soldered on for you)

"my keyboard has nothing but letters on it" *types letters just fine*

Everyone? This sub is downright discriminatory against ten-key enjoyers

No problem! Hope you find the right 40% for you! You can also join the 40% discord server, there's loads of people there more knowledgeable than me. https://discord.gg/40percent

Will look into it !

Thanks :)

Cbkbd has the Qaz PCB, and Keebio has the Levinson which is a 40% split Ortho PCB. I've tried both and they're both are very good options.

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Not the click...the clack...

It's seriously my favorite keyboard I own. You should check out Placticity from P3DStore. It's a stacked acrylic version of the Cajal that Walletburner ran through them.

Right on both accounts!

Two and a half 40% foil taped together, pretty sure.

underneath are regular mouse switches which are easy to buy, but the 3D-printed mouse button assembly is part of the kit.

I saw that. To be honest I’m not sure how to reprogram my keyboard or if it’s even possible as it’s not got VIA. Also I’m planning on building a split keyboard soon so this is practice 😊

Are those buttons something you can purchase seperately or are they a custom component of this kit?

bonus mouse buttons, so your regular thumb buttons don't need to layer switch when you mouse with the trackpoint.

I saw someone post this this other day and it never clicked until recently. You can get away with out an numpad on a TKL!

https://preview.redd.it/wmu2m4ww7bha1.png?width=1920&format=png&auto=webp&v=enabled&s=1a17e78280784615c31667cb21cbff880785711c

Will do!

If you can't find any, PM me.