Hey all, I just purchased a Moonlander and after using it for a day, I unplugged it and packed it back up because I noticed my muscle memory on my laptop was already deteriorating!

I want to be an ergomech user, but I also need to frequently use my laptop by itself with a standard keyboard. Is it possible to keep my muscle memory for both? Have any of you had success switching back and forth between a split ergo and a standard keyboard?

Any advice or reassurance is appreciated. This was a massive purchase for me and this issue has me very disheartened at the moment.

Update: I got it back out a couple days ago and it turns out all I needed to do was use it for a day and then sleep on it so my brain could do a firmware update. I’m back at the 70wpm I was with staggered, and yet my proficiency with staggered has only dropped about 5/10wpm.

  • @muppetjones
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    21 year ago

    You can if you keep it up. I regularly switch between several physical layouts, and it’s not a problem if the keymap is the same.

    I can still use my laptop keyboard, but it’s annoying without the keymap efficiencies. But I do have Colemak DH installed as a layout. I haven’t really kept up with qwerty, but I can do it if needed (I’m using it on my phone).

    My solution was to switch to smaller, wireless boards that sit on a “bridge” over my laptop keyboard.