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title: "Why use ergonomic keyboards?"
description: "Ergonomic keyboards have a number of benefits."
date: "2023-10-1"
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![argument for ergo](/keyboards/argumentforergo.jpg)

Ergonomic keyboards are a class of keyboard that do something to conform to the shape of the human body.
This class of keyboards exists because keyboards are not ergonomic. This seems like an obvious distinction but imagine if we had non-ergonomic shoes. Shoes that don't fit the shape of a human foot. Would anyone ever use a non-ergonomic shoe over an ergonomic one?

Imagine walking all day in a non-ergonomic shoe. How uncomfortable. Yet, For some reason we accept that using an uncomfortable keyboard for 8 or more hours a day is fine.

### Not for human fingers

Keyboards rows are staggered, while human fingers do up and down.

### Not for human wrists

Keyboards are flat which force wrists to pronate, over time this causes wrist issues.

### Not for human posture

Keyboards force our hands to be next to one another to type quickly. This closes our posture and forces are arms into weird angles.
