I’ve had a TREG unit for about a week now and I’ve had some time to get accustomed to it and get a feel for it’s strengths and weaknesses. Let me start off by saying that it is hands down the nicest feeling keyboard that I have ever used. I’m not a keyboard expert by any means and prior to the TextBlade I didn’t pay a lot of attention to what I was typing on but having used one for a while now I can say that when I get a good run going typing feels smooth, natural and effortless like nothing else I have typed on before.

The only thing for me at the moment is that I don’t always get a good run going. Other people have commented on the learning curve of the TextBlade and I have to say that there is one, but it is no linear. My experience was that it was very easy to pick up the TB and start typing. After a day or two I started to really notice the times when I got a good run - better than the rest of my typing. The next step on the learning curve is to improve the consistency of my typing to the point where I am typing smoothly most of the time and this part of the learning curve takes longer than basic typing.

I should also note that I switched to Colemak about a year ago and although I am proficient with it now, it still doesn’t feel as second nature to me as QWERTY did when I switched so this is likely contributing to my experience as well.

I suspect there will be a few readers out there that will get frustrated reading this post, if it is so good why don’t they ship it already, right? That would have been my response. I am not even going to speculate when they will ship because I just don’t know. I have had a positive experiece with my unit but I have also had to talk with waytools about some unexpected behavior as well. They will ship when they are ready and I can only hope that when it does everyone will have an even better experience than I have had.