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Happy Hacking Keyboard (HHKB) Professional Classic in Charcoal with Printed Key Caps, and USB Type-C Connectivity. Compatible with both PC and Mac, the 60-key HHKB Pro was designed with UNIX professionals and advanced programmers with high-speed typing.
Usability of HHKB is significantly different to any other keyboard. Its ultra-compact Tenkeyless format incorporates many intentional design choices to reduce finger and wrist fatigue, whilst increasing keystroke precision and ultimately keystrokes per minute.
Originally built by developers, for developers, HHKB is highly suitable for developers, authors, journalists or other touch-typing professionals who need absolute comfort during prolonged use and tactile feedback to eliminate errors.
Precision & Throughput
The premium Topre key switches eliminate key chatter, providing ultimate precision and a silky-smooth tactile response, so you instinctively know if you have keyed an error, without losing your flow and affecting your productivity.
Comfort
Ergonomics are at the core of HHKB’s design. The ultra-compact 60-key Tenkeyless format eliminates every unnecessary, difficult to reach key. The near-symmetrical layout, cylindrical step design and the relocation of the ‘Control’ key, help your fingers feel at home on the ‘Home row’ and reduce travel distances for your fingers and hands, reducing finger and wrist fatigue or stress related injuries.
Mobility
Light weight, ultra-compact size and wide compatibility make HHKB an ideal travel companion, to use with all your modern devices, wherever you go.
Durability
Made in Japan from high quality materials and components that last. The Topre key switches are rated for a lifetime of 50 million keystrokes, we use textured PBT for our keycaps to provide durable, shine-resistant keys and dye-sublimation method to produce fade-resistant keycap legends.
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2020-05-20 New. wireless version came out.
There is a computer keyboard, called the Happy Hacking keyboard (HHKB). It is a keyboard often loved by “hackers”, and is one of the most idiotic keyboard. Let me count the ways.
Missing 12 Function Keys
It lacks 12 function keys. TWELVE of them! One, two, three, …, four, five, six, and more. Continue counting: seven, and eight and nine. Then, we add another digit to hit 10 in a decimal system. Then, eleven as in Seven-Eleven, and twelve, as in: twelve days of Christmas. Twelve programable keys down the drain! What to do if you need them? You have to press 2 keys: Fn+key. What happened to the concept of efficiency?
Missing Page Navigation Keys and 20 Extra Function Keys
Bygone are the extremely convenient dedicated page navigation keys: Home, End, PageUp, PageDown.
Of course, PrintScreen, ScrollLock, Pause keys, and the entire set of 17 keys on number-keypad are gone too. Sure, you can do without them, but for programers, that's another 17 programable function keys down the drain.
Happy Hacking Keyboard is supposed to be used by hackers, right?
No Arrow Keys!
Can you play pacman while eating pizza?
Missing Modifier Keys
Ok, now you lost 36 keys to automate your work. To make up the lost keys, the Control Alt Meta Super must be going strong on the HHKB.
There's Alt and Ctrl, ok, and there's Meta and Fn. Where's my Super and Hyper keys? On a standard $15 PC keyboard, there are 3 more modifier keys than the $260 Happy Hacking. WTF⁈
~$260 HHKB Pro, you have:
1 Ctrl, 2 Alt, 2 Meta, 2 Fn. (the Fn can't count here because usualy it is hard-wired in the keyboard circuitry thus the OS doesn't see it so you can't remap them.) That's a total of 5 modifiers.
On any $10 cheap Microsoft keyboard, you have:
2 Ctrl, 2 Alt, 2 ❖Window key, 1 ▤Menu key, 1 CapsLock. That's a total of 8 modifiers, all of them can be individually remapped by software on {Linux, Windows, Mac}.
Non-Symmetric Position of Modifier Keys
If you look at the distance from F to the left Meta versus J to the right Meta, you see that they are not symmetric. The right side modifer requires you to curl your thumb deeper.
Most PC keyboards after year ~2005 have the modifier keys symmetrically positioned. (For example, all Microsoft Keyboards around 2011. [see Microsoft Keyboards])
¿Designed for unix, vi, emacs?
I presume those who like HHKB are unix users and the reason they like it is due to some key's layout.
The Escape key is at above the Tab key. The Escape key is frequently used in vi text editor. [see Emergency vi]
The Ctrl key is to the left of A key. The Ctrl is frequently used in Emacs [see Emacs's Keybinding], and in unix terminal [see Bash keybinding].
The ⌦ Delete key is above the Enter key. There's no ⌫ Backspace key. To do backward delete, you have to press Fn+Delete. (On unix terminal, you can backward delete by Ctrl+h and forward delete by Ctrl+d.)
Each of these key positions are actually inferior to optimal. For example, if you are vi user, the optimal position for Escape is where the PC keyboard's CapsLock is at, or, one of the big Alt right under thumb (a design point popularized by Kinesis.).
If you are a emacs user, the optimal position for Ctrl is the 2 big Alt key onMicrosoft Ergonomic Keyboard right under your thumbs, 2 of them, symmetrically placed, pressed by a strong finger thumb.
See also the original keyboard vi is designed on at History of Emacs and vi Keys.
For why the function keys are important, see: Increase Productivity Using Function Keys.
Topre Key Switch Mechanism
the “Professional” model of the HHKB uses capacitive switch (Topre).
The “model lite 2” model's key mechanism is rubber dome with electric contact.
Topre capacitance switch uses rubber dome for the feel of the key, and uses capacitance as electric switch (which does not require contact of conductive material).
Some keyboard nerds love Topre, prefer it over Cherry MX, but i don't like Topre at all. It has a hit-bottom finger shock problem.
[see Guide to Keyboard Key Switch Mechanisms]
Type S
The “Type S” model, is a bit more silent, by adding rubber ring in the key switches.
Bluetooth Version
A bluetooth version came out, in 2016.
Happy Hacking Keyboard Pro Japanese Layout
If you really want HHKB, i recommend the Japanese layout ones.
This is a better HHKB, even if you only type English, because:
Smaller space bar. (you don't need a space-hogging one. see: Tiny Spacebar)
Arrow keys. Now you can play pacman while eating pizza!
Lots of thumb keys at bottom. Remap them to whatever you like.
There are issues to watch out:
In Japanese layout, key columns are less staggered than US version (compare the vertical line from Q to Z).
In Japanese layout, the Space bar may not be comfortably reachable by right thumb.
In Japanese layout, the Enter key is 1 column more to the right than standard PC keyboard layout.
In Japanese layout, the Shift key on the right is tiny, and is 2 columns more to the right than standard PC keyboard layout.
Japanese keyboard are like that because there's little use for space or capital letter. See: Tiny Spacebar
Solution to Tiny Space Bar, Tiny Shift Key
For the tiny Space key problem, just use left thumb for it. Or, remap one of the thumb keys to space.
For the tiny Shift key problem, turn on Operating System's sticky key feature. So, you don't need to hold Shift. Just press left Shift, release, then type a letter key.
If you use emacs, there's more advanced way to solve the Shift key problem. See: Emacs: toggle-letter-case
Alternatives
Mac Happy Hacking Keyboard Download
if you want spend as much as the hhkb,any of the following, i consider far better.