The thing about symphuny’s upside down keyboard is that there is no advantage of saving space or reaching keys easier, it’s just a fun way to break your wrist.

I can confirm that the vertical keyboard idea works best on laptop

I do tilt my keyboard a little bit but completely vertical is crazy 💀

That’s nothing. I play with my keyboard glued to my ceiling while I stand on a ladder.

Back in the olden days, when you wanted to go to LAN parties, you had to bring your pc and monitor, where you had to play in a limited table space. That meant that you had to make as much mouse space as possible by turning your keyboard vertical.

Man's gonna freak out when he hears about 60% keyboards.

Many pros tilt their keyboard because back in the old days in LANs there wasn't as much desk space and they needed to adapt.

A 45 degree tilt is right on the sweet spot

I remove my whole setup entirely so i have as much room as possible

It's people that haven't been loved as child, so they unconsciously hug their keyboard as a trauma response 🤪

Real ones have their keyboard on the floor playing it with their feet

Simple answer to that is when you play like that your whole arm is at rest since it's all in the table and for that it gives the sensation of perfect gameplay due to arm relaxation

I usually use my feet to control my keyboard, that way I have the whole desk to work with

Get these guys 60% keyboards 🗣️

Tilting or Turing your keyboard allows more room and adds comfort but the main reason is you can use keys like f and g without much movement

My setup: my monitor is 5 cm from my face, my keyboard is tiltes to 90 degrees

i like it when keys are facing the table and not the ceiling

I have my keyboard at a 45 degree angle. It's more of comfort than anything. I broke my wrist when I was younger and screws up the tendons in my hand

The last one left me hanging 😂 It got me dead 💀 * ba dum tss *

One of them acted like tilting the keyboard would shrink it

pro tip : it's 200% more efficient with a laptop

I actually turn my keyboard 45 degrees, because it's a more ergonomic position for my hand to be in when gaming using WASD. When I have it horizontal my wrist has to be bent to use WASD, but when I turn my keyboard a bit, it's in a relaxed position where my wrist is in line with the rest of my arm.

I am horrible with playing games that involve a keyboard and mouth because I’m always gonna be pressing the wrong button on the keyboard

Upside down is crazy😂

Imagine getting mopped by a random player in warzone with an upside down keyboard. I'd feel depressed.

I usually tilt my keyboard around 45 degrees, works really well

the thing ab symphunys upside down kb is that there is no advantage of saving space or reaching keys easier its js a fun way to break yr wrist

Yo, the last guy rotated his keyboard 180 degree lol

This is the common and conventional solution to having no desk room; my childhood bad habit-forming fix was to increase my mouse sensitivity to an obscene level and now I can’t change

I use mine at around 45 degree angle, just cause i feel more comfortable due to the fact that i can place my elbows wider making it just so much easier to play and relax at the same moment.

It’s just one of those things that people do to make what they’re doing look more complicated than what it actually is, and by that they also look better than what they are

Well, the main reason for this is that in the old days, desks would've been quite small, and so placing both keyboard and mouse was problematic. Nowadays we have TKL keyboards and, of course, large desks. However, professional players still use the keyboard vertically as they are just used to it) You can really see this playstyle in Counter Strike

Saw some people explain it in these comments but this started because of confined table space at LANs. I remember back in CS:S when I went to LANs they always had like 2 plastic beer pong tables per team so people had super limited space and had to tilt their keyboard to give their teammates their space and leave room for their mousepads.

When I had a full-sized keyboard I used to do this. But it started to hurt my wrist. So I bought a tenkeyless and use it normally. No more wrist pain, and still enough room for my mouse.

People used vertical keyboards when they didn’t have enough desk space at tournaments. Nobody is claiming a vertical keyboard to be better if you have the desk space to place it normally

I feel people who flip their keyboards have already gotten so used to how they play on it. They basically adjust after they figure out their layout, I believe.

I just do a slight tilt. It makes it more ergonomic to press control and some other keys. Probably 30 degrees or a bit more.

This is straight up just “EZ Carpel Tunnel”

I've played at about 45 degrees for over 10 yrs now. Since counter strike on a membrane office keyboard as a kid on mom's computer. 45-90 degrees is meta.

We used to turn the keyboard for extra space in a mini desk with a big keyboard but now 60 % keyboard already gives more space but the habit of tilting is already in our dna so we tilt the keyboard

I have desk room for horizontal but i find it more ergonomic and comfortable to have it at around a 30-50 degree angle since i sit relatively close to the monitor

From my Experience. I used to play in net cafe and having a small desk to play. So turning my keeb vertical will give me more space to flick the mouse. And if you're those who like to look very closely to the monitor. The body posture you made when playing like this will feel more comfort than playing with normal horizontal keyboard.

The guy trying to explain it is probably trying to press his keyboard against his stomach when he needs to lean forward

This doesn’t work for me because then I can no longer type quickly in all chat 😂

“I see it as a disadvantage to have my keyboard horizontal” 🤓

Sym’s upside down keyboard is jjst one of many things to add to the list of “How… in the entire shit?! Did he land BeookeAB?” 😂😂😂

Most of it comes from older LAN days (5+ years ago) where there wasn't much desk space and teammates were sitting pretty close to each other. Plus pros tend to use much lower sensitivities so they require more mouse space.

this comes from the old lan parties when you didn't have space to put your keyboard all the way horizontally.

The 2 main reasons are ergonomics, your wrist doesn’t wasn’t to sit straight and you will have a lot of issues down the line without ANY tilt on your keyboard. The second is space, primarily in old LAN settings when people shared a single table for 3-5 setups you HAD to tilt your keyboard to make sure every player had space.

I got my keyboard on my lap. I get their jig. Gotta have real estate for the mouse and beers

bro's hugging the kayboard by playing it upsidedown

Upside down keyboards are so cursed. But the only cursed thing that people try to do is doing Left handed mouse and it is so uncomfortable. You literally have to change your setup to be able to do it correctly.

As soon as you think outside the box and society gets crazy

I like to think of it the same way you would hold a guitar when playing. There's the one you'd originally do, which is put it on your right lap to play, while there's classical stance used in classical guitar playing. You're pretty much cradling the guitar between your thighs, tilting the fretboard diagonally. What this does is it allows you to reach further than usual and is relatively easier on the fingers.

i keep my keyboard normally to have optimal reach to all my keys in order to flame the enemy faster

About 20 degrees is perfect for reaching all the keys needed and feels better then playing horizontally

It is easier to do those but you need to adapt to learning, cause when your in a game, your natural gamer instincts kicks in and trys to click the horizontal keyboard u remember

I heard it’s because back at old school LANs there wasn’t enough space of the desks for everybody to play horizontally, so some had to switch to vertical. I’m assuming more new gen players are copying it just because they saw older pros do it.

QWERTY keyboards are actually designed to slow people down primarily because of its history with typewriters

When you tilt it vertically the distance from each key is still the same, so you arent reaching the keys easier, but you are feeling like you reached them easier. This can also cause a lot of wrist damage over time as it puts strain on muscles near the radius.

The thing with vertical keyboard is that there is exactly 0 room on my desk for that

Used to do this but recently stopped idk why

This only happens when you feel a need to be different when you're young. By that you eventually train yourself to make it work but make no mistake. There's no advantage

Don’t tell anyone that I use all my keyboards by turning it 360 degrees :)

bro said he reaches more keys while his wrist position remained the same

people who tilt their keyboard 90° must have less space then a new york apartment

I play with mine at about a 35-40 degree angle. It feels natural for my hand. Its worth giving a shot.

The real reason people do this is because in the old days LAN events didn’t have enough desk space so the pro players would tilt their keyboards to save space. Viewers saw the best players in the world playing this way and thought it was advantageous.

Ah... At least that upsidedown is not the upsidedown that I imagined..

I just started doing this and realized the purpose of something like a TKL. Its for sure a personal thing but best way I can explain it, is it’s like stance as in for example boxing.

The true reason is dexterity. Keeps your fingers from straining as it’s a more natural resting position for your hand and fingers

Those guys must be on the spectrum or something

Used to do this at a time I was playing a lot of LAN tournaments on CS. Back then we often had very little room on tables and to avoid bumping into team-mates we had to optimise space ahah

I've been playing like that since I started playing games. And I swear that is a lot more comfortable and easier to reach buttons.

People using a laptop: *why are we here, just to suffer*

Bro really said "MY GYATT DUDE!"

I use a slight tilt but never heard of the full tilt

I tilt my keyboard the tiniest bit since I normally sit crooked so when it's the tiniest tilted it feels straight to me

Mine is angled a bit when I’m on a desk with room enough to put it where feels most comfortable. This, however, is insane.

just reminding you that a pro CS:GO player named FASHR plays with inverted vertical axis (aka going up with your mouse means going down and viceversa) and also moves forward with the right-click mouse button instead of W. To this day that is the strangest settings I've heard of and his justification is that he played a lot of flying simulation games as a kid.

It hurts my wrist if the keyboard is in horizontal, and my table is not wide enough to fit a keyboard in vertical so i tend to put it in diagonal

I remember back on LAN 20+ years ago people had to play like this because of space. Also "reach more ieys easily" doesn't really fit. I play with nearly 70 hotkeys in WoW and have the keyboard normal.

I think we got it from school when u get so tired u tilt ur head and also ur wrist so now we are used to it

my hands are dying when its straight

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me on a laptop using the built in keyboard:

The funny bit is symphuny’s is literally insane at warzone 2

The reason for me is that it feels better when it’s in a different angle and your whole hand is on the table instead of only the fingers and wrist

this only works for people that know the keyboard without looking at it.

As long as they keep their hand aligned with their wrist, I can understand, however as soon as they cock their wrist to one side or the other that seems like an ergonomic problem.

Pretty sure it originated back in the day with cs lan events where desks were the size of school desks so you had to milk the mouse space out of it

now do keyboard control fighting game with tilted keyboard setup

Bro I write with my book like that in school

I have mine at a very wrist friendly tilt. While allowing me to reach more keys and still be able to type.

Sure like a little bit of tilt is completely fine and better than full horizontal in my opinion but full on vertical is just madness 💀

Upside down is cursed but the tilted thingy IS REALLY USEFUL bro😅😂

Actually the vertical mode is due old school lan not having enough desk space. That’s why we even have the lap keyboard from quake

the last one man.😭😭😭

just like the first claw contraoller grip when first time we saw

I just change my keybinds from WASD to IJKL so my hand is on the left side of my keyboard and I can move it farther to the left without having to lean over to it