So you bought yourself an ergonomic keyboard spending not only hundreds of dollars,
But also countless hours trying to master typing on the darn thing. But like that's fine.
I guess right you can't put a price on health.
But hold on a minute!
What happens when you're not at your regular desk?
Most of the ergonomic keyboards that we've tested have been large and cumbersome enough that you wouldn't want to travel with them.
So what you're just doomed to aggravate your repetitive strain injury?
Haha, no my friends for there is a light at the end of your carpal tunnel.
Introducing... Yogitype!
The foldable ergonomic keyboard.
But is this thing a direct path to keyboard nirvana, or is it more like downward dogs*it.
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The Yogitype comes in a bougie carrying case that will absolutely make people want to be your friend, and
Inside you'll find the base, wrist pads and the keypad set up is a snap.
At first it might seem like you're typing upside-down or something. Since you're looking at the underside of the keyboard as you type.
But actually the Yogitype is kind of like the safe type keyboard that we *clicks* checked out before.
except on steroids
The main idea of having a vertically standing keyboard like this is to prevent what's called pronation.
That's when the two bones in your forearm crisscross, pinching tissue and blood vessels
Of course though having the keys on the side makes them harder to see.
And let's be honest even the touchiest of touch typists will look at the keyboard,
sometimes. But instead of janky rearview mirrors the inward angle of the key modules allowed Yogitype's creators to implement a
much more elegant visual aid colored LEDs
And you can even switch them off if you prefer.
And this angle has some economic benefits as well helping with extension and finger relaxation.
Speaking of relaxation the included wrist pads are...
Super cushy. Easy to adjust and the best part is they slide so they don't inhibit your natural movements.
This is so much better than having to hold your arms up the whole time like on the safe type.
My only gripe is that you can't adjust their height, and I think that they're a little bit, too
Tall to fully alleviate the last economic pitfall. Ulnar Deviation
Okay, so this is all quite positive so far, but what's it like to actually type on this thing?
Well at first it wasn't too bad since they've got tactile guides for both your index
and pinky fingers. As well as this sort of inexplicable one on the
8-key. And most of the keys are in the same relative position as they are on a regular keyboard
Most of them. I mean, hey I get it this is ten keyless board and there's no room for keys on the foldable base
so you're just gonna have to get used to the more obscure keys like home and end,
Having new homes on the end.
But what about non-obscure keys? They moved the apostrophe key to no man's land and
Backspace. a key that I use a lot more than I'd like to admit, though
Probably still less than I should has been moved to right beside the P key which means that when you make a mistake
Typing on this strange new keyboard you have to rectify it by using your pinky in unfamiliar territory
Which often leads to making even more mistakes making you so
unproductive that you just end up putting the Yogitype in a bin under your desk for two weeks while you review other stuff
But Linus, backspace has to go somewhere doesn't it? Well, of course it does and
My vote is to take over some of that spacebar real estate this would not only flatten the learning curve
but also make it more ergonomic since you have way more power up here than you do with your little finger,
but I'm actually not going to stop there as is the space keys are positioned to be pressed with the base of your finger
Which works, and it's actually kind of innovative
But it does disrupt your index fingers ability to continue typing so our
Preference would be to strike the space and backspace keys with the thumb like you do on the Kinesis advantage - or the erga docks
Except that these bloody joysticks are in the way not that thumb sticks are a bad idea
Inherently, so these are for controlling the mouse cursor page scrolling and right and left clicks
You can even switch between left and right-handed mouse configurations right on the board
And I'm positive that there are some users out there who need to be able to do that from a neutral position
The problem is that the mouse is effectively unusable it has crazy
Acceleration unruly steering, and I'm not sure if our right stick is broken
But we had trouble moving it at all without highlighting everything if they insist on keeping the onboard mouse I would suggest
replacing the joysticks with
Marble-sized trackball or something like how cool would that be. One last complaint.
Did anybody else notice that the keys on this side are staggered
and the keys on this side are all aligned
WTF?
(Oh, Linus)
Anyway
Should you buy this keyboard then at about a three hundred and fifty dollars? It's $60 more than the
Awful SafeType, but is better in just about every way including the switches. This one is way less mushy
Though with that said the Advantage 2 is the same price
is mechanical and though it doesn't fold up
It is portable in the sense that all the macros and the layouts that you program onto
it are saved on board so
I wouldn't say that it sucks
but the Yogitype has enough small things wrong with it at this point that giving it our full endorsement would be
a bit of a stretch
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