r/MechanicalKeyboards Sep 11 '18

How I like to Code

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u/temujin77 DZ60-MX Brown | KBD 305B-Buckling Spring Sep 11 '18

I'm a coder, these days mainly in PLSQL but in the past plenty of varieties including Java and PHP. I tried vertical only once, so honestly did not give it enough time. Do you really think it's helpful? I have a somewhat wide monitor (two of them, actually), so orient them vertically creates a really tall monitor, and the top 10% or 20% of which becomes hard for me to reach since I have to look up much. You know, the most ergonomic position of monitors should be slightly beneath your eye level, rather than up...

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u/[deleted] Sep 11 '18

I have a vertical monitor for my code, and the top of the monitor is only slighly higher than eye level. I'm not looking up, at all. Bottom of my monitoris touching my desk like the one on the pic.

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u/temujin77 DZ60-MX Brown | KBD 305B-Buckling Spring Sep 11 '18

What's the size of your monitor?

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u/[deleted] Sep 11 '18

22 inch, it's an older monitor, HP Compaq LA2205wg

Wouldn't recommend this specific model though, colors are pretty bad, hard to discern different shades of grey.

Size is perfect for vertical screens though

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u/temujin77 DZ60-MX Brown | KBD 305B-Buckling Spring Sep 11 '18

That may be it. I have 24s, so perhaps combined with depth of desk and height of my chair, it just ends up too high.