Every developer knows the subtle tax of context-switching in your physical environment. You’re deep in the flow state, writing code, when you need to select a word three lines up or trigger an Escape key in Vim or your IDE. Your right hand leaves the home row, reaches across the desk to the arrow keys or navigation cluster, makes the adjustment, and travels back to reset your home-row positioning.

Do that hundreds of times a day, and it adds up to physical strain and micro-interruptions to your concentration.

Split ergonomic ortholinear keyboards (like the Moonlander, Glove80, or Corne) solve this using layers and home-row modifiers. But what if you could get 90% of those ergonomic powers on the standard ANSI keyboard on your laptop without buying new hardware or ruining your regular typing habits?

Enter Kenkyo.

What is Kenkyo?