Hey all, I just purchased a Moonlander and after using it for a day, I unplugged it and packed it back up because I noticed my muscle memory on my laptop was already deteriorating!

I want to be an ergomech user, but I also need to frequently use my laptop by itself with a standard keyboard. Is it possible to keep my muscle memory for both? Have any of you had success switching back and forth between a split ergo and a standard keyboard?

Any advice or reassurance is appreciated. This was a massive purchase for me and this issue has me very disheartened at the moment.

  • velociroger@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    I’d strongly recommend against different layouts for different keyboards. I tried to do this with QWERTY on my work laptop and Colemak-dh for my ergo and it just makes you worse at typing on both. I guess if you’re around 40 wpm it wouldn’t matter but there’s no way you can retain 100 wpm muscle memory on two layouts

    • RustedSwitch@lemmy.world
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      1 year ago

      Sure, I’d agree with you about switching between QWERTY and colemak, but I think this guy is just talking about different staggers. I do this -all.the.time-, and it’s no problem.