Maybe flip the numpad for left hand use?

Ayeee a short board leftie user :) I have one too and I’ve never seen anyone else use one. I’ve modded mine with cherry silent red switches and also a removable usb c cable

Love it. Numpads should always be on the left.

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the wire has to go in a slot in the middle of the stab so you can't push the stab part back in with the wire in hte way, the stab bit needs to go in and the wire needs to go back in the slot in the middle of the bit that's come out, otherwise the other side won't go up and down (the point of the stab)

well if you're going to do it that way - with tweezers, you need to push that bit of stab wire up and out the way so you can get the little bit back in - but you need to put the stab in so that the wire goes in the middle - so it's a bit of a muck about and quite difficult, but it is possible. but if you don't know what you're trying to do you may just break it completely. the best / least risk way would be to desolder the board entirely and fix it and then put it back together - but if you are not experienced desoldering can sometimes break everything entirely too! if you're UK I can fix this for you.

Highly recommend inverting the numpad so the enter, +, and 0 key are placed properly for the fingers that use them

I use a left-handed numpad layout often, and I found that inverting the numbers didn’t help me, but the 0, +, and enter keys are much better for the fingers that hit them when inverted. The top row too (and the order of numbers), but those can be reconfigured without any layout change from a regular numpad

After using a southpaw numpad for a while, I agree

...to build a road?

Get rid of Art5, stick the fingerprint sensor on the side, and include Home and End

Probably Del @ Art 5, Insert @ Del

Home @ insert, End @ fingerprint sensor

Thanks, glad to know this is made by cirque as well. Hopefully the implementation would be easy. If this part is widely available (and I'm sure it will, very soon) I'd love to have this on one of my custom boards.

I know right~~

:) Took 50 comments before finally someone noticed it 🤣

I'm really trying to find a southpaw keyboard with the perfect layout as well. I've ordered both the EPOMAKER and Mountain Everest boards (both of which yet to arrive / use)

If you're an excel poweruser, you might find a common key combo is the CTRL + <directional> and CTRL + HOME/END keys to be used quite often. For that reason, I feel like doing away with HOME/END keys it is probably quite detrimental.

The other thing is if the arrow keys are on the right, then you probably end up having your hand off the mouse anyway, which kinds of defeats the purpose of shifting numpad to the left in the first place.

I like the delete key on the top right, that's kinda interesting.

Perhaps this layout is ideal? What do you think?

Personally I really like the layout.

I use my keyboard for competitive gaming and work. Having navigational switches like Home and Insert is nice, but the problem is since I'm right-handed, and the nav cluster is on the right side, my mouse hand will sometimes hit against my keyboard when I'm quickly turning in FPS games.

I've more or less solved it by angling my keyboard so the left side is closer to the monitor than the right side, but having my nav cluster/keypad on the left side would also solve that issue.

All in all, I think it's a great setup, and I wish OEM's like Steelseries offered that layout.

Looks cool! Wouldn't underestimate the work for the fingerprint reader, talk with some experience pcb designers about it.

Why would you need a road roller for work?

So i basically I push it back in with force?

What’s wrong with the separate numpad anyway? As far as I’m concerned my separate numpad and selection of 75’s/65’s is far more convenient and beautiful than a full size

really you need to take that to pieces and put the stab back together and solder it back up again. but - if you're a real maverick you can do it with tweezers and brute force but it involves pushing the wire out under the plate until you basically can't see it and it's a real muck about. only two options really.

they look like clip in usually they just clip in though I may be mistaken

I think it might be because the two use cases you describe are fairly separate. For gaming, a smaller layout gives you more desk space, and for data entry, I can see a separate num pad as a valid investment.

Never hurts to have options, though. Looks good.

Maybe you should put the enter and stuff on the left side to inverse it

Maybe 6 set bro: Strong Spirit, Jack selectric, Silent Assassin, Pulse, Halloween Novelties and Die from Troublemind haha

I'm sold, DM me when there's a group buy.