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Or, remap one of the thumb keys to space.įor the tiny Shift key problem, turn on Operating System's sticky key feature. See: Tiny Spacebar Solution to Tiny Space Bar, Tiny Shift Keyįor the tiny Space key problem, just use left thumb for it. Japanese keyboard are like that because there's little use for space or capital letter.

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In Japanese layout, the Shift key on the right is tiny, and is 2 columns more to the right than standard PC keyboard layout.In Japanese layout, the Enter key is 1 column more to the right than standard PC keyboard layout.In Japanese layout, the Space bar may not be comfortably reachable by right thumb.In Japanese layout, key columns are less staggered than US version (compare the vertical line from Q to Z).

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Happy Hacking Keyboard Type-S Happy Hacking Keyboard Pro JP Now you can play pacman while eating pizza! This is a better HHKB, even if you only type English, because: If you really want HHKB, i recommend the Japanese layout ones.

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Happy Hacking Keyboard bluetooth Happy Hacking Keyboard Pro Japanese Layout Happy Hacking Keyboard Type-S Bluetooth Version HHKB Pro 2 Type-S review (silenced Topre) Happy Hacking Keyboard Pro 2 Type S Silent vs. The “Type S” model, is a bit more silent, by adding rubber ring in the key switches.

The “model lite 2” model's key mechanism is rubber dome with electric contact. The “Professional” model of the HHKB uses Topre switch.

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Reviewed- Happy Hacking Keyboard Professional 2 HHKB Pro 2 See also the original keyboard vi is designed on atįor why the function keys are important, see: Increase Productivity Using Function Keys Right under your thumbs, 2 of them, symmetrically placed, pressed by a strong finger thumb. If you are a emacs user, the optimal position for Ctrl is the 2 big Alt key on (On unix terminal, you can backward delete by Ctrl + h and forward delete by Ctrl + d.)Įach of these key positions are actually inferior to optimal.įor example, if you are vi user, the optimal position for Escape is where the PC keyboard's CapsLock is at, or, one of the big Alt right under thumb (a design point popularized by Kinesis.). To do backward delete, you have to press Fn + Delete ⌦.

The Escape key is at above the Tab key.I presume those who like HHKB are unix users and the reason they like it is due to some key's layout. (For example, all Microsoft Keyboards around 2011. Most PC keyboards after year ~2005 have the modifier keys symmetrically positioned. The right side modifer requires you to curl your thumb deeper. If you look at the distance from F to the left Meta versus J to the right Meta, you see that they are not symmetric. īuy at amazon Non-Symmetric Position of Modifier Keys

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That's a total of 8 modifiers, all of them can be individually remapped by software on. On any $10 cheap Microsoft keyboard, you have:Ģ Ctrl, 2 Alt, 2 ❖ Window key, 1 ▤ Menu key, 1 CapsLock. (the Fn can't count here because it is hard-wired in the keyboard circuitry thus the OS doesn't see it so you can't remap them.) That's a total of 5 modifiers. On a standard $15 PC keyboard, there are 3 more modifier keys than the $260 Happy Hacking. There's Alt and Ctrl, ok, and there's Meta and Fn.

To make up the lost keys, the Control Alt Meta Super must be going strong on the HHKB. Ok, now you lost 36 keys to automate your work. Happy Hacking Keyboard lite 2, has arrow keys, but rubber dome key switch. Happy Hacking Keyboard is supposed to be used by hackers, right? No Arrow Keys! Google Pacman Sure, you can do without them, but for programers, that's another 17 programable function keys down the drain.

Of course, PrintScreen, ScrollLock, Pause keys, and the entire set of 17 keys on number-keypad are gone too. What happened to the concept of efficiency? Missing Page Navigation Keys and 20 Extra Function Keysīygone are the extremely convenient dedicated page navigation keys: Home, End, PageUp, PageDown. Then, eleven as in Seven-Eleven, and twelve, as in: twelve days of Christmas. Then, we add another digit to hit 10 in a decimal system. One, two, three, …, four, five, six, and more.Ĭontinue counting: seven, and eight and nine. Happy Hacking Keyboard model Professional 2.ĥ312×2583 Happy Hacking Keyboard Missing 12 Function Keys It is a keyboard often loved by “hackers”, and is one of the most idiotic keyboard. There is a computer keyboard, called the Happy Hacking keyboard (HHKB).