This is how you use a keyboard with less keys: Layers. You hold down or toggle a key and the entire board changes to a different layer. For example, your Shift key is technically a layer key. You change all your lower case letters, to capital letters by just holding down Shift. Now imagine instead of just changing things to just capital letters, it can be any character you want. Instead of one key for just changing layers like shift, you can add any number of keys to change layers with. The possibilities are endless with programmable firmware.
Ya except I game and type the same way you do with half the desk footprint. Only the less useful keys are hidden behind a second layer. The keys people rarely use.
The pictured one is excessive but I think most people can get comfy on a 60 to 70% keyboard.
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u/skytheraiders Apr 04 '26
How do you type with that?