Btw, I've only seen right hand mice for this keyboard, so keep it in mind. When you use it, your hand stays in its natural position, a little bit on the side, not with the wrist forced in the awkward position to the left (if you're a righty). It also helps with RSI, but it's actually a little bit weirder than the keyboard, if you can believe it: it's round, like a half of a tennis ball and it actually works quite well. Now the Alt key on the keyboard is CMD and the Windows key on the keyboard is ALT/Option.įinally, the mouse. Since CMD and ALT/Option keys on Macs are in different positions than Windows key and Alt on Windows, I switched the keys in System Preferences/Keyboard, as you see below. MacOS solutions: CMD/Option keysīecause I use it on the Mac, I needed to do one change, though. The keyboard is also facing downwards on both sides, from the middle, so that you keep the natural position of your wrists during writing. This helps a lot, because you're not forcing your wrist up, as it happens with normal, straight keyboards. It's big enough and, more important, it's higher than the keyboard, so your fingers are, actually, a bit lower than your wrist.
One thing that makes the keyboard good for RSI prevention is the palm rest. The keyboard is basically split in the middle, so if you're a fast two hands typist, you will adjust pretty fast, but otherwise it might be a little weird. Your writing speed will likely suffer, initially, so you need to put in the effort. The shape of the keyboard takes a little bit of time to get used to it. And we have one with UK layout in case anything happens. This makes 4 keyboards in total in the last 7 years. I ordered one more expensive (for us, in Europe) from the United States. The reason? No Amazon in Europe would sell a US layout Sculpt keyboard. So here I am, with a new keyboard on my desk, albeit with a UK layout, unfortunately, since I'm really used to the US one. The first one still works quite well, but another member of my family decided she needs it. My experience with Microsoft Sculpt keyboardĤ-5 years later, I just bought my second one. He was really happy with his Microsoft Sculpt Ergonomic keyboard, so I had to try it. While I was searching for a good external keyboard for my laptop (to use while at home, at least), I found this article from Marco Arment. I solved some issues by moving my gaming sessions on consoles, but I still needed to sort out writing. It was an early symptom of RSI and I wanted to tackle the problem as early as possible. Some years ago I started to have some issues with my wrist from writing too much (and playing) on the computer. The keyboard I use: Microsoft Sculpt Ergonomic Keyboard
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