I think of each layout as a kind of language I get conversant in? But my fingers haven’t forgotten 25 years of staggered column QWERTY and probably never will.
I’ve been using ortholinear for a year and split for four, but I still type about 70 wpm on my laptop.
Like, ortho just fixes bad habits re: which finger does what. On a staggered layout you’re still e.g. supposed to hit “c” with your middle finger by curling it in, but an ortho layout makes it awkward to “cheat”/compensate by tucking in your index finger.
When you go back to staggered, each finger is still responsible for the same keys, so the adaptation isn’t hard at all imo.
yeah, it’s good for me to know! losing my frame of reference for “how successful do I expect to be given my lot in life” over the past couple of years has interfered rather severely with my sense of how many boutique hobbies I expect to buy into, so I appreciate the check
that said on reflection I posted that in between disassembling the new periwinkle kailh switches I got from ebay before drop.com had a preorder page up so maybe little column b too
it’s my favorite color and the typos on the aliexpress listing were funny
The lubricant I ordered came with a stern “industrial use only” warning, a msds sheet, and something about fumes causing flu-like symptoms in humans. must be the good stuff.
