Homerow is bad

This will be short.

When getting my glove80, I started with stock qwerty. This however was not something desirable, as the separate layer heights made it such that typing letters which were not meant for that finger means crossing a height barrier.

I was quickly looking for alternatives.

One such alternative was sunaku’s moergo layout, which at the time was engram layout. And had multiple layers for different things, symbols, numbers, function, mouse etc.

sunaku’s layout was great, engram is an extremely ergonomic layout. It makes a lot of sense to me. And the homerow mods, woaw that was an eye-opener. Perfect combination of everything.

After some weeks when I could type fine on engram (40wpm?) something started to bother me. The homerow mods are made me somewhat slow?

The whole idea of homerow is that you can press a homerow mod for Super, Alt, Ctrl, Shift when you press it and then something else afterwards it does the combination you want.

But the problem is timing, the delay you need to press for homerow to function ,let’s say 40ms, makes it such that you need to press the homerow key for atleast 40ms before you can press something else. This makes you do a pause when typing.

After years of typing you probably press things like: Ctrl+c super quick, to the point where you basically press them at the same time. You can of course do this aswell with homerow mods, just lower the ms needed to press down the key. But then you encounter issues where you always need to type as fast as you can. As soon as you start relaxing, the homerow won’t engage.

fin

Perhaps I couldn’t configure it correctly, but to me any delay is weird when typing. I would prefer for when i press something for it to work immediately. Having the Super, Alt, Ctrl, Shift to keys down of homerow is perfectly fine on my glove80. Using 4 rows of keys is fine and doesn’t require much more effort than only using 3 rows.

If you want to use homerow please do, and tell me how and if you got a setup working where you can type as fast as you want. And still have perfect modifiers actions.