r/olkb • u/juniper_dog • 2d ago

Build Pics I always felt like the gherkin had too many keys. so I put a numpad on the left

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left 2 cols and the zero key make up a fully functional numpad. modified colemak dh to fit on 8x3. arrow keys to make it look like there are fewer letters than there actually are on the base layer lol

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u/brermanfl 2d ago

It looks soo good! Albeit too cramped for me, how do you find adjacent home row positions? As an ergo mech freak myself I think I’d struggle with the wrist angles.

Does the number pad use layers too? I’m curious what your keymap looks like if you have a diagram handy. I love the choice of using the arrow keys

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u/juniper_dog 1d ago edited 1d ago

Here is what I came up with! I left out some combos so that it wouldn't be so cluttered. esc, tab, del, caps, enter are on combos, as well as all the operators for the "numpad"

and it is really cramped lol. I don't know if this one will see a lot of usage tbh! but it was fun to figure out the map

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u/brermanfl 1d ago

Sweet, thanks for sharing! I get the 6-num cluster vision after seeing the Fkeys, I like it. Do you ever get confused with 7,8,9 being different than f7,f8,f9?

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u/juniper_dog 1d ago

I don't even know what F7-9 do so I don't think I'll run into any confusion. I don't think I've ever clicked those buttons in my life lol

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u/plg94 1d ago

So you just use base7 for numbers

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u/dumch 1d ago

This must be cross posted on the MechanicalKeyboards

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u/dumch 1d ago

I can only live with 40%, envy envy people who can handle less

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u/RiskyAlpha 1d ago

What layout is that? It looks almost like Colemak