Weird question: PC gamers, is your keyboard slanted or flat?

[Vigormortis]

Tell me you at least use a wrist rest!? If you don't, you must have X-Men, mutant tendons And I imagine the ladies love you, behind only the man with the long tongue and the man with the long...errrr....nevermind.

Nope! Nary a wrist rest in sight. I just don't get wrist pain or cramps when using my keyboard flat. In fact, the only bit of my arm that might ever get uncomfortable after long stretches of typing is my elbow.

'Course, I move my arm quite a bit while using my keyboard, especially when gaming, so that might help with the wrist.

My hand is roughly eight and a quarter inches long, from base of palm to the tip of my middle finger, and my fingers range from three to three and three quarters inches long.

I've always been, I guess you could say, nimble with my hands. It's partly a family trait. Sadly, so is arthritis. :/ But until then I can enjoy the benefits of endlessly comfortable keyboard usage, piano playing, and fiddling with tiny electronics.

And yes, I've been complimented on my...uh....finger dexterity.

 

[laggyteabag]

Slanted. Always have, always will. The only time that I can ever use a flat keyboard is when I am using a laptop, luckily, that is pretty much never.

 

[DarkhoIlow]

UUhh..I have no idea what's the difference between the two is (english not my first language so maybe that's why).

I am currently using a Corsair Vengeance K95 with the "backfeet up" to keep my keyboard raised..so I guess that's what slanted means? Or I got it all wrong.

I have a crappy chair so even with palm rest my wrists are still at the edge of the table. That and you know it's a great way to get the "mark" that shows you are a PC gamer.

 

[TheYellowCellPhone]

I put my keyboard slanted. Only after owning it for nearly a year now and having it flat, I just now realized it had the stands on the back.

I think I prefer flat. Same feeling, except flat means my wrists don't hurt as much.

 

[votemarvel]

Depends on the keyboard for me to be honest.

My old one was a monster in size and I honestly couldn't tell the difference between flat or slanted. I loved it though, had it for over ten years, and was gutted when it finally died on me.

The one I am using now is smaller in size and it just doesn't feel 'right' when lying flat. So now I am using a slanted keyboard.

 

[Chimpzy_v1legacy]

I prefer slightly slanted. Too little feels awkward, but too much makes my hands cramp up after a while. So I go for a nice middle ground.

 

[Lil devils x_v1legacy]

I prefer flat but haven't used a desk in years... I am one of those PC modders and I build my own everything into whatever I want it to be built into, play on a sectional chaise with a built in gaming rig so the keyboard itself is flat, but it rests on a nice custom pillow on my lap. My biggest pet peeve is mouse pads, I can only stand to use a sturdy leather mouse pad, if it is too flimsy or too hard I cannot stand to use it and it hurts my wrists. Keyboards need to be low profile, flat, small, and lightweight for my intended purpose. I don't want some big clunky awkward keyboard on my lap.

 

[CannibalCorpses]

I type slanted and game flat because i have had problems with my wrist from pc gaming in the past. If anything, i like my keyboard slanted the other way so i can stretch my left hand out rather than having it scrunched up and causing me pain. Control pads are better but most pc games have issues with pads bah

 

[Wulfram77]

I don't use the feet, but it's got some natural slant.

 

[DanielBrown]

Uuuh, slightly slanted I'd say. It's a shitty comes-with-the-PC keyboard I used to temporarily replace my old one that broke... like two years ago.

 

[Weaver]

Slanted of course. It reflects how I live my life: on a slight yet comfortable incline.
It's more exciting that way.

 

[pilouuuu]

I use it flat cause I read that it's better for your wrists and got used to it.

 

[Idsertian]

Up on the legs, so slanted. I remember having to use a keyboard flat one time because my sister broke one of the legs... that sucked big time.

Slanted all the way.

 

[Alcamonic]

This actually made me wonder. Why do I even run slated? I guess I just ran with it because the feet was there from the start.

OP, you have opened my eyes and given me a choice!

 

[kasperbbs]

Flat, mostly because i never even thought about it and only now i found out that my keyboard has that function.. i feel stupid, i'll try using slanted from now on, one obvious advantage that i noticed right away is that i can see the keys better this way. But i have a feeling that this wont be very comfortable for longer sessions of gaming.

 

[Callate]

...Uhhhhh....

(glances down)

...Slanted, I guess. But only very slightly so.

(glances at back of keyboard)

...Hey, look at that. It has little feet to make it more slanted.

(pulls out feet)

...Yep. Slanted.

It's a Logitech keyboard, so I guess I'm not surprised. I suspect a few degrees of slant is more beneficial for accurate typing (he says, making an extra dozen typos in the process, 'cuz, y'know, irony), though I wonder if it's really the best thing for carpal tunnel.

I will confess that at the time my purchase of this keyboard had less to do with its feature set than that my daughter had yet to scrawl on it with a Sharpie at the time.

 

[HoFT013]

Update: flat keyboard fucking sucks. Slanted, it is.

 

[VanQ]

Flat. Because I use it enough that if it was slanted I'd have carpel tunnel by now.