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title: "Why use ergonomic keyboards?"
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description: "Ergonomic keyboards have a number of benefits."
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date: "2023-10-1"
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Ergonomic keyboards are a class of keyboard that do something to conform to the shape of the human body.
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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?
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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.
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### Not for human fingers
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Keyboards rows are staggered, while human fingers do up and down.
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### Not for human wrists
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Keyboards are flat which force wrists to pronate, over time this causes wrist issues.
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### Not for human posture
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Keyboards force our hands to be next to one another to type quickly. This closes our posture and forces are arms into weird angles.
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