Productivity for Imperfect Humans
Most distraction blockers assume the problem is accidental. They're useless when you're the one deliberately opening Reddit because the task you're avoiding is hard or unclear. Here's what works for that problem specifically.
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This is one we keep coming back to because it solves a problem most "ergonomic" keyboards only pretend to fix.
It's for anyone whose hands ache by the afternoon — gamers nursing a flare-up, remote workers stuck typing eight hours a day, or anyone who's been told "just take breaks" by a doctor who's never had to actually finish a workday. If your wrists are screaming by 3pm, this is who it's for.
The split, tented design takes the twist out of your wrist instead of just padding the spot where it already hurts. We go deeper on this in our piece on keyboards for gamers recovering from wrist and carpal tunnel pain.
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