KeBe v2

Before you pre-order

Why the keys are where they are

• Dvorak's letters, in straight columns

  KeBe's keys sit in straight columns on an 18 by 17 mm grid, so each finger moves straight up and down its own.

• The home row does the work

  The row your fingers rest on reads A O E U I under the left hand and D H T N S under the right. Add up how often each letter turns up in English and about 71% of the letters you type land on that row. On QWERTY's A S D F G H J K L it is about 34%, so two letters in three are a reach.

• Symbols in the middle

  The - = [ ] / \ keys a standard board leaves to your right pinky sit in the two middle columns, where your pointer fingers take them: far stronger fingers than your pinkies.

• Typos fixed in the keyboard

  The firmware carries a dictionary of common misspellings and corrects a word the moment you finish it, by itself, on any computer you plug into: accomodate becomes accommodate before you look up. Fn + A switches the whole thing off.

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