The design of a keyboard

Everyone uses keyboards today. Recently the design of a keyboard has been brought to my attention when someone showed me a maltron keyboard.

Most people use keyboards like on our laptop, but they are ergonomically unfriendly, and our hands don’t like them very much. After prolonged use, they cause arthritis, carpal tunnel, and other issues that make using our hands painful.

The topic of ergonomic keyboards has been brought to me before, but the ones most people are familiar with have the exact same shape, but the keyboard is split in half, and the halves are tilted away from each other. The maltron keyboard is drastically different.

Instead of being flat, like most keyboards, the keys actually curve down, like a valley. Supposedly this relieves your fingers from reaching out for those hard to reach keys, which could cause strain in your fingers. From what I’ve heard, its much more intuitive for your fingers to use this keyboard.

What’s also interesting about the maltron keyboard is it has the maltron layout. The keys are arranged completely differently on this keyboard. A professional keyboardist took note of how frequently each key was used and designed the layout so a typist’s fingers wouldn’t have to leave home row. It’s resulted in faster, more accurate typing (on average maltron keyboard users type about 160 wpm) and less hand strain.

It isn’t sleek and modern like apple keyboards, but it is designed well ergonomically.