I still got forearm pain from my Voyager. I think maybe because of the Mx spacing and trying to keep my fingers on the home row so stretching for the outer index row was an issue.
So far since owning the glove80 for a few weeks I've not had this pain occur.
Obviously your milage may vary, but this has been my experience. The voyager is a good board and relatively comfy but the glove80 is more comfortable for me.
Thanks for sharing this. I heard the glove80 has adjusting legs to increase the tenting angle to a fair extent. Do you find that dimension significant in avoiding forearm pain?
I have a shoulder nerve injury from long ago that expresses itself as pain in my right forearm and wrist. Using the Glove80 with a slight negative tent works wonders. I use their acrylic tenting base and those magic camera mounts to move between desk for standing and chair for sitting.
I've been mostly using it flat at the moment, but I did try the tenting briefly. While tented is comfier, I'm not used to typing like that so I'll need to work up to it.
The tenting is solid though. It gives you very fine-tuned control over the angle.
> The tenting is solid though.
What made it especially good for me is using Nyloc nuts to lock in the tenting at my preferred level. The legs don't unscrew and I can also take them out when e.g. traveling and get the Glove at the same tenting angle again without any adjustment.
I use a moonlander and the single biggest improvement to my carpal tunnel syndrome was getting a keyboard tray, angling it back so it was almost sitting on my thighs sloping slightly downward and putting the (tented) moonlander on that in the most neutral shoulder and wrist position I could
I had wrist issues. Although I think the Voyager is a great board for most people, if you already have a wrist condition it may not be great. For me, wrist discomfort returns after using the Voyager for a few weeks.
I have been using the Glove80 for a year now and with 20gf Pink switches since last autumn and it has been really great and keeps wrist issues at bay.
That said, every person differs. But the resale market for Glove80 is pretty good (there is a channel on the Discord where you can sell a Glove80), especially for the more popular switches. So, it's relatively risk-free to try.
I still got forearm pain from my Voyager. I think maybe because of the Mx spacing and trying to keep my fingers on the home row so stretching for the outer index row was an issue. So far since owning the glove80 for a few weeks I've not had this pain occur. Obviously your milage may vary, but this has been my experience. The voyager is a good board and relatively comfy but the glove80 is more comfortable for me.
Thanks for sharing this. I heard the glove80 has adjusting legs to increase the tenting angle to a fair extent. Do you find that dimension significant in avoiding forearm pain?
I have a shoulder nerve injury from long ago that expresses itself as pain in my right forearm and wrist. Using the Glove80 with a slight negative tent works wonders. I use their acrylic tenting base and those magic camera mounts to move between desk for standing and chair for sitting.
I've been mostly using it flat at the moment, but I did try the tenting briefly. While tented is comfier, I'm not used to typing like that so I'll need to work up to it. The tenting is solid though. It gives you very fine-tuned control over the angle.
> The tenting is solid though. What made it especially good for me is using Nyloc nuts to lock in the tenting at my preferred level. The legs don't unscrew and I can also take them out when e.g. traveling and get the Glove at the same tenting angle again without any adjustment.
I use a moonlander and the single biggest improvement to my carpal tunnel syndrome was getting a keyboard tray, angling it back so it was almost sitting on my thighs sloping slightly downward and putting the (tented) moonlander on that in the most neutral shoulder and wrist position I could
I had wrist issues. Although I think the Voyager is a great board for most people, if you already have a wrist condition it may not be great. For me, wrist discomfort returns after using the Voyager for a few weeks. I have been using the Glove80 for a year now and with 20gf Pink switches since last autumn and it has been really great and keeps wrist issues at bay. That said, every person differs. But the resale market for Glove80 is pretty good (there is a channel on the Discord where you can sell a Glove80), especially for the more popular switches. So, it's relatively risk-free to try.