Whats your goto method of hitting backspace?

Also, I'm thinking Space, Fun, AltGr would be better than AltGr, Space, Fun for the right hand thumb keys? I don't really use AltGr much (maybe I'm missing something and I should be?) so it seems to be a key with a great thumb position (the best on right hand) that doesn't have much use?

Possibly I haven't set mine up right though and its different to yours?

Ah ok, what are your Fun and Tab keys doing?

I loaded your seniply layout via the chrysalis app and doing that I have tab where you have your Fun key.

I also seem to have AltGr where you have your Tab key.

Is your Tab key actually producing a tab?

Do you ever press the BkSp by the k or do you find it too hard to reach?

The silent box browns really are silent, a world of difference from mx blues on my minila. They don't feel massively tactile to me though.

Do you hit ' with your ring or pinkie finger?

(Thanks for the picture by the way, that's great)

I must have changed my config at some point but forgotten to update it on github. I have just updated now, so if you get it again it should match my current setup.

My Fun key selects the Function key layer (as an alternative to holding Extend and Any)
My Tab key selects the Symbols2 layer (as an alternative to holding Any and Shift)

I've never tried silents, I'd imagine there's going to be a tradeoff between how tactile and how quiet switches can be made. I have the browns which are the intermediate choice. I'd be quite curious to try super tactile ones, maybe blues, but risks being annoying for others when I'm office based.

I use my little finger for '

Chysalis is only remapping keycodes, so despite what is shows in its UI, it doesn't really know what character would be displayed - the actual character printed will depend on the national variant you have selected in the OS. Would be nice if Chrysalis queried the OS and adapted its UI accordingly, but that's probably too much to ask. Mine also shows @ in the Chrysalis UI, but when I type it I get " as expected.

Update: It seems this is a requested feature in Chrysalis, which they have closed despite having not fixed it correctly!

One observation is that you use the #2 (extend) and #1 (symbols/numbers) a lot more than #3 (function) and #4 (misc) 'shift to layer' keys (I think)?

To that end I've swapped locations of #2 and #3 and also swapped #4 and #1.

My thumbs seem to sit more naturally on the keys toward the inside of the keyboard (key to the left of super and key to the right of enter)

So it looks like this:

What could be really nice is to have the #1 key as space for single tap and #1 when you hold it down (I think you mentioned that in a previous comment). Implementing that would mean your right thumb could do almost all its work without having to move!
Done it! It feels pretty natural.. Right thumb can sit on key 43 and generate enter (when pressed with left thumb on #2) , space on single tap and layer #1 (number/symbol) modifier when held down.

another thing that jumped out at me was how nice it feels to have g and m as homing keys, the outward pinky stretch feeling easier than an inward index finger stretch, but that would be an absolute world of pain to learn, effectively learning to touch type all over again :D

It's been a painful weekend for typing, but I can see enormous potential already :)

Seniply really is a nice bit of design, very intuitive..

Agreed that thumbs under T and N are great positions

I think it will be a while before I will get errors through being fast!

Still painfully slow at the moment ;)

dropped to about 40wpm on monkeytype with no punctuation or numbers, 20wpm with punctuation and numbers!

I'm hoping finally learning to touch type numbers properly will pay off long-term though.

I think I need to print off the layers and stick them to the wall in front of me or something for now... so much to learn, so much to memorize

An issue I probably have right now is 'stupid' thumbs in as much as I'm not used to having to be in any way accurate with them, possibly thats the motivation behind me want to stack up keys and have them move as little as possible, maybe this will change over time as they get more dexterous (hopefully)

Are you using those outer bottom row keys much? I find that anything to the left of the S column / right of the E column isn't really usable as a thumb key - thumbs are strong but unfortunately a bit slow and lacking in agility. The only small exception in my setup is the Ctrl key on the far bottom left, which I occasionally still use for Ctrl-click, but I ought try to get out of that habit. Apart from that, I only use max three thumb keys on each side.

just got a 73 on monkeytype with no punctuation, no numbers, I'm down at around 50 with punctuation and numbers. Using atreus as daily driver now..

touch-typing numbers is a really nice win, never had that before, you can't avoid it with the atreus

Just got a 77 on monkeytype

Atreus 81 on monkeytype at 98%

Hi D,

are these all settings on monkeytype that you are talking about? funbox?

monkeytype is pretty nice right, I find that I can't really go back to other ones like typeracer after using it as they feel a bit weird in comparison.

I've been typing on the atreus for about a year now and am reasonably comfortable with it. Although it is a strain on the memory having to remember where so many things are through multiple key taps.

I think your and my speeds are much of a muchness right around the 70-80 mark.

I'm not really fussed about getting any faster now. Just do monkeytype as a procrastination tool ;)

MT 82 at 100% !

yeh things have moved on since then.

now using the latest seniply layout

take a look at 'A Kmonad-based 6-layer keyboard configuration' thread in user contributions if you're interested