day_li_ly

day_li_ly t1_j1xc22w wrote

This makes a lot of sense. Personally I never touch typed the numbers, and which hand is used for B could be largely dependent on right/left-handedness, habit, and what word you're typing at the moment.

>It's for improved ergonomics on your wrists and hands

This could be a point but I really think most people just buy alice boards because they look cool (they do).

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day_li_ly t1_ixouvbb wrote

>Biggest problem AFAIKT is the placement of the windows key

Reason to get a VIA board. But it's kind of sad that most of the budget wireless boards do not support VIA.

If you don't need wireless, Fancy Alice 66C seems like a really good option.

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day_li_ly t1_ixlo63l wrote

I use Pinyin (i.e. a romanization standard of Chinese characters) to type in an IME (input method environment). The IME suggests characters and words with that romanization from its database, which I can then select.

An average native Chinese speaker knows anywhere between 3000 and 8000 Chinese characters. For daily communication, 3000 is more than enough.

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