And indeed, many people are turned off by the FC660C/M because of the area at the right of the keyboard, which says: "I'm sorry I'm there only because of the arrow, so I give you two more useless keys. You then populate it with more keys, but you still know why this column is there.
#100 keyboard layout Pc#
I was considering purchasing a hand-made 22Mini-EX, which is a standard PC layout plus one column of keys on the right side, because I thought that the way the Leopold FC660C/M does it is the only way to have dedicated arrows: you shorten the Shift, put Left/Up/Dowm in the bottom corner and you need one more column for the right arrow.īut it's not a 60% anymore, and this column is there only because of the right arrow. The FC660C/M was part of my thoughts when I designed this layout. It's funny because I have got my FC660C just two days ago and I'm replying on it right now. So now I turn to the community for a reality check. I'm aware I may have missed something that would somehow break the usability of this layout.
To modify existing standard 60% boards (Poker maybe?) so your arrow keys are always accessible (they are not at this time on the Poker, you need to switch to a different mode to get the arrows, and you lose the right Shift in the process). To build a 60% keyboard that has always accessible arrows and yet uses standard keycaps, because no commercially available keyboard does this. Between parenthesis you have the functions accessible with the Fn key (which can be relocated): Here is the complete layout including the Fn layer. IMPORTANT: Notice that in the layout I'm suggesting, all the keys have the same size as on the standard keyboard.
#100 keyboard layout full#
From the statistics I have collected, "?"+"\"+"|" account for 0.31% of the keystrokes in the context of programming, which is the worst case (if you type English text, it's around 0.1%).įor reference, here is a standard PC layout (the "typewriter" cluster on a full board or TKL): and are available on the same key in combination with the Fn key. The question mark is available by shifting it. This key is and is now above the Enter key. It turns out that this key is one that is not too frequently used. One key had to be moved, that's the compromise. (it's not a chicklet keyboard, imagine Cherry keycaps here) Has all the other missing keys (F1…F12, PrtScr, ScrlLck, Pause/Break…) accessible through a Fn layer Doesn't mess with the Shift keys so touch-typing is still possible Has an arrow cluster always directly accessible (no Poker-like mode switching) Must have a standard PC layout: all the keycaps must have standard sizes Must be 60% (it's the "typewriter" cluster of a PC keyboard)
In this thread I introduce a 60% layout that fulfills the following constraints:
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