!rant OMG GOOD NEWS!!!!!!!! I only have tendinitis in my elbow causing pain in my hand, not carpal tunnel or arthritis 😄

I'm happy for you now but you need to prevent. For me, I went to a mini keyboard to keep my mouse reach contained. Keep in mind I'm nearly like 50 (dead lol!)

Take care of yourself.

@bighead I need to use a mechanical keyboard or i miss all the keys

@taylorviktorya I understand. A mini keyboard has all the keys. There is just no dedicated number pad

This decreases my lateral reach and keeps my elbows positioned by my torso.

@taylorviktorya @bighead
The "mini keyboard" is usually called a Ten-Key-Less Keyboard (TKL). There are plenty of TKL Keyboards from Corsair and Cooler Master. If you have special needs or want to use special switches, you might wanna build your own keyboard based off the TKL layout.

@niederschlag I'm cool. 7 usd. Done. Literally 7 dollars. Microcenter Atlanta.

@bighead gotcha... I use the 10 key. A lot. I can touch type and not look, but if i try to do that with the ones in a row, I'm frighteningly unsuccessful. If I learn to do that, though, I'll keep this in mind. Sounds a lot cheaper. 😂

My biggest thing is the mechanical keyboards tend to not have flat keys, so I can tell where they end wht I use my elbow to type, allowing me to stay between 86 and 94 wpm with maybe 2-5 errors (for normal, non-code words and syntax... coding is about 60-70).

@niederschlag thanks :) that makes sense. I was thinking @bighead was using a keyboard that had super tiny keys... lol

I use my fingers to move my mouse, and I levitate my hands above the keyboard, like a pianist. Haven't had any issues with my hands in the last 10 years ;)

@tisaconundrum so do I. But i was born with one hand. I use it. A lot. Like, for everything.

Consider buying vertical mouse.
Buy powerball and practice it. Go swimming. All of this should help.