When Ray McEnaney types, he’s confident it’s the most efficient way possible. But it’s not typing school that’s given him this feeling. It’s his keyboard. Frustrated with the limitations of the traditional QWERTY layout, McEnaney spent the last decade designing a new one. Considering that the universal key arrangement was designed in the typewriter age — patented in 1878 — an alternative seems due. This one’s inspired by a bee.

McEnaney wasn’t satisfied with other typing options people turn to — the most prominent being Dvorak, which aims to minimize how far the fingers travel and reduce fatigue. He thought the learning curve was too great: Users need to seriously commit to becoming proficient. That’s how we get to the BeeRaider, his oddly shaped keyboard that resembles a bee in flight, with two “wings” of keys arranged on either side of a radial center. It’s a buzzy concept: The layout is larger, with the keys you need most at the center (which gives you less fatigue, McEnaney says). Keys that he considers “more useless” — including Q, K and X — are placed farther away.

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Oh hell

The keyboard we ALL use was designed to slow us down (typewriters did not get jammed this way). Now we all use QWERTY and no one will be adopting that one.

No.

hell no fack no

I doubt this has any real scientific merit. Aside from the strange shape, the layout of the keys isn't THAT different to QWERTY when you look at it.

I was going to give it a chance untile I saw that the 'o' and 'p' are now on the left hand. The middle part was a good idea though, almost like the split keyboard.