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| Type | Practice |
| Note created | Sep 1, 2025 |
The Glove80 includes a comprehensive tenting mechanism, that consists on threaded M4 screws that makes its legs height adjustable. Simply unscrewing the legs makes the tenting a bit unstable, but the keyboard comes with some nuts and silicone o-rings that allow to make it more stable.
Since tenting is not for everyone, and depends mostly on personal preference, I’m running a one-week experiment using each half of the Glove80 in a different tenting position, to evaluate how each one feels.
Testing for tenting
On 2025-03-18, I have configured each half of my Glove80 on a different tenting configuration:
- The left half has extreme tenting using the extended M4 screws included with the keyboard: the thumb cluster’s leg is 3.5cm tall, and the top and bottom ones rest at 2.7 and 3.2 cm respectively. My palm rests on the keyboard at around 22º.
- The right half has no tenting: all the legs are completely screwed in the case and there is no elevation, my hands rests on the keyboard at around 14º.
Conclusions
The experiment ended up being several months, in which I ended up concluding that most of the time it did not matter, and the few times that did matter I preferred the untented version.
Due to Glove80’s construction, it felt like the heavily tented version was slightly more unstable and inconvenient. Also, the few I times I got wrist fatigue was solely focused on the tented wrist. I recently removed the tenting and went back to the regular flat version that comes by default.