Showman: Are you using that with a ~90° tent as your regular keyboard?



Personally, I find a tent angle of anything from about 20°70° to be comfortable (with a sweet spot in the 3550° range), depending on the other placement/angles of the two halves. 90° is too much for me.



Edit: oh wait, you have those tilted in a front/back direction, and not at all tented per se. Are you just showing us the range of motion or do you somehow type with a setup like that. If the latter can you post a video?



Hi, Jacobolus. You might have just noticed that I had the keyboard set up incorrectly in the first batch of pictures, since the axis of the keyboard needs to be rotated for it to be used in 90 degrees, which I had not initially realized. But I do typically type at the 90 degree tent. If you want to see a video, I can provide you with one. It's not particularly much different from typing at 70 degrees though, if you have tried that. It is probably slightly slower than other configs, and would obviously not be feasible for someone who is not a touch-typist (you can't see the keys, though this is no concern to me), but I find it is the most comfortable angle to type on, because your wrists are not flexed at all, but lay to their sides in their usual, neutral posture. Consider that when you're not doing anything with your hands, how do they naturally fall? Not flexed forwards, but to their sides, so tentng the keyboard vertically allows your wrists to set in a very natural, relaxed, neutral position. Thus, I think the ability to tent the keyboard to 90 degrees is a significant benefit for the Ergo Pro for some users, and it is significantly better keyboard than the other two options on the market with this capacity. The other two keyboards that go vertical are, first, "The Safetype", which is a highly unsatisfactory vertical keyboard seemingly premised on the "any keyboard will do" theory, so long as the keyboard is used in the best ergonomic position, and second, the Kinesis Freestyle, which is non-mechanical, and the Ascent kit costs upwards of $150-200, meaning that the Ergo Pro plus $20-30 tripods is both cheaper and better and the Ascent + Freestyle. I say better because the keyboard is much higher quality, and is an actual mechanical keyboard, and has built in wrist rests, and perhaps most importantly, it is also far more secure on the tripods than the kinesis is on the ascent, which would always shake during typing at high angles and high separation. Thus, I think this is the best of the 3 options on the market for pure vertical typing, and can easily be used for tenting at 30-40-50-60-70-80 degrees as well.