Went all-out for my first build. First new mechanical keyboard (I have an old Dell laying around). The only reason I went for one is that it’s now quite economical to build one compared to 10 years ago as I have a 3D printer now for about 5 years and there are many more switch options. My parts cost me about €60, I went with cheap keys. Now learning Colemak.

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  • It's those little things, like your ii shortcut, that make custom keyboards so great.

    One keymap change I would suggest you at least experiment with would be duplicating your numpad on one, or both, of the primary halves.

    Not having to move your hand to use it is a great improvement, from my experience.

    Edit: You should cross-post this at r/HandwiredKeyboards.

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    For now I'm only using one layer, I already went with extra rows and column to ease my transition. First training the new layout and maybe further down the line I might look into implementing more layers.

    So far, it seems that the US layout seems to work with my keymap, so next month when ordering a new computer, I'll order it with the QWERTY US layout! (I'm in an AZERTY country) Should save me some headaches when working with VMs

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    The majority of my "layered" items are duplicates of things I have elsewhere, like having layered arrows in addition to my dedicated ones, a layered numpad in addition to the number row, etc...

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  • The keyboard is a Cosmos Keyboard with the Colemak-DH Matrix layout.
    The switches are 'Holy Panda V2 55g' replicas with 'XDA PBT Keycaps Mac'. My numpad is a 'BigNum' which I built to practice first.
    Not sure if it counts as a mod, but I've mapped the Colemak layout in QMK so I set my computer in Qwerty. Addionally, a ii gets converted to ij as it's a common character combination in Dutch.
    It's a XDA full-profile keyboard with the current QMK firmware installed.

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