Yep, we totally can, and we plan to make a columnar UHK in the future. Please subscribe to our blog or mailing list, and we'll let you know.

Thanks for elaborating on this, Eric! You see, I better try agressive tenting angles instead of talking out of my ass. 🙂 It'll be an interesting experience for sure.

Sorry to hear about your tendinitis. Hope you're doing fine.

It's a pretty natural motion... pivoting at the elbow moves the hand perpendicular to the hand with a neutral wrist angle and is a very simple and natural movement. Moving side to side above a level surface is a more complex motion, though it doesn't have to fight gravity.

I found it easier to get used to than I expected. The main difficulties are making the keyboard stable at this angle, and the psychological discomfort of keys not being as comfortably visible. Arguably a close to vertical angle with the two halves of the keyboard close to hip-width apart is even more ergonomically sound. I might try that if my current keyboard was capable, but I'm not sure I'd like not being able to read the keys labels at all.

I arrived at my current position during a bout of tendinitis, btw. There is nothing like pain to give you an intuitive feel for what is and isn't neutral wrist angle! :^)

Great point, Bob! We definitely encourage modding and we'll publish DXF / DWG / PDF files of the back of the UHK so that you'll be able to fabricate your own tenting / mounting solution as easily as possible.

No problem at all! You brought up some great points and made me curious about these more agressive tenting angles. I'll definitely give them a try and there's a chance we'll develop something like it eventually.

Hi Eric,

Everyone has different hand structure and hand dimensions and typing preferences. Given the photos being shown in this blog post, you will be able to tinker with this keyboard. I'm sure you will have opportunities to create a customization that is exactly right for you. You may have to fabricate your customizations. I do not know. I'm merely saying there is a capability for customization.

I stand corrected. I wasn't aware that the Goldtouch keyboard can be tented up to 30 degrees. The Kinesis Freestyle indeed seems to be capable of such degrees which I wasn't aware about either. Thanks for the info!

I definitely understand your reasoning regarding neutral hand angles. I have yet to experience such agressive tenting angles but I'm a bit skeptical about their usability because even on small keyboards the hands move a bit above the keys and on a heavily tented keyboard the movement is not horizontal but angled or vertical. This may or may not be comfortable over the long run.

BTW sorry for my incorrect assertion of what tenting generally means in a keyboard. I was biased by what I think it *should* mean given human body mechanics (and the word tent). I'd forgotten how hard it was to find a keyboard that can do that last time I went looking.