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
no my friends for there is a light at the end of your carpal tunnel
introducing yogi type the foldable ergonomic keyboard
but is this thing a direct path to keyboard nirvana
or is it more like downward dog
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the yogi type 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
setup 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 yogi type is kind of
like the safe type keyboard that we 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 criss-cross 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 yogi type'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 ergonomic
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 ergonomic 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 eight 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 a 10 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 move 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 yogi type 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 space bar 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 is actually kind of innovative but it does
disrupt your index finger's 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 2 or the ergodox except that these bloody joysticks are
in the way not that thumbsticks 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 trackballs 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
anyway should you buy this keyboard then at
about a three hundred and fifty dollars it's 60 dollars more than the
awful safe type but is better in just about every way
including the switches this one is way less mushy
though with that said the advantage too 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 yogi type has enough small things wrong with it at this point that
giving it our full endorsement would be
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