Mechanical Keyboard Size Comparison: 60% vs 40%

When choosing between mechanical keyboards, one of the main things you need to decide is which size to get. There are a range of different sizes which each result in their own very unique layout characteristics.

My first mechanical keyboard was a 60% size keyboard but after living with it I was still left wanting to simplify and improve on the ergonomics even more. It turns out by going smaller to 40% you can actually solve many of the main issues with normal keyboards. That is, many of the main action keys (esc, enter, backspace, tab etc) are all a long way from your home row. This means when you hit them you loose your home-row orientation - which slows you down and causes inaccuracies.

With 40% keyboards every single key on the top three rows is only ever a single key away from your home keys. This is huge for minimising the amount of movement your fingers need to do across the keyboard - which improves accuracy and ultimately speed.

The two keyboards in this video are:

Anne Pro 2 (60% size mechanical keyboard). (Available from ebay/aliexpress etc).
Ergodox Planck EZ (40% size mechanical keyboard) - https://ergodox-ez.com/pages/planck

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