Mechanical Keyboards

Physiotherapists tend to recommend against wrist rests. When you are typing your hands should hover, when you aren't then your hands should ideally move away from the keyboard altogether.

If you still use one anyway, rigid ones are less likely to compress veins/nerves in your wrist/hand and are more comfortable than they sound. Make sure you only rest your palm on it (and only when not typing), it's not actually a "wrist" rest (also you'll find better options searching for "palm rest" IME).

I am not a physio, this is all parroted from two physios I've talked to about wrist pain.

I do, I find the wooden one to be the most comfortable one, but haven't found a wood one since I started using a split board, so I 3d printed one.... But ran out of resin midway through, then I realized resin is not great to have in contact with the skin so I painted it... Then I realized that sweaty palms might end up removing the paint and I also wasn't sure that the paint was good for skin contact, so I glued some rubber feet on top... I still don't fully trust it so I put some paper napkins on top.... Yeah, I should really try to find some wooden split wrist rests....

BRILA is my absolute favorite. I have a Ducky One Tenkeyless keyboard and the Brila fits perfectly and makes typing comfortable.

I have a wrist rest, due to the way I type. Always resting my wrist and I needed more height. Think any cushion will do. I just use one I found one Amazon. Works well so far. I don't have the same keyboard but its around the same size as yours.

I don't, but I don't really hover all the time either. I'm an elbows on the table kinda guy. The meat of my forearm rests on the table. If I do that and face the back of my hand skywards the wrist is naturally floating off the ground without any strength used. When my fingers are resting on the keys, it is the same position except the hand slightly tilted upwards because of the thickness. My keys can resist the little additional weight of the tilted hand. If I am typing I am kind of hovering, which takes almost zero energy in this position. I don't know if my keyboard is super thick (definitely not thick like some vintages ones), but it is not thin either.

According to a blog post my Keeb.io:

Floating is probably the one to retire. Forearm support is your wrist's best friend. Wrist support is your shoulder's best friend.

The post is citing a small study of only 13 participants, but I think it's way more of value than any personal opinion from some random dude on the Internet (which includes me as well).

With that said. I'm a wrist rest person my self. I've been spending a lot of time at the computer, probably too much time at times. And I have used wrist rest exclusively for more than a decade with various mechanical keyboards.

I'm the person who uses a highly keyboard driven environment that mostly consist of text-based software. I don't use the mouse a lot, so I always rest my hands on the keyboard with the fingers on the home row (asdfjkl;).

This works for me, but you should listen to your body and what it's telling you. According to the article it doesn't seem to exist some one good thing that works for everyone. Which is probably true for most things.

However. Stay away from those tilted keyboards. They're rather popular because aesthetics. Which is stupid. Your keyboard should preferable have a negative tilt, or at least have no tilt at all.

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I use one as my wrists don't bend back very far. I'd probably like a slim mechanical board but have yet to find any intriguing switches that would be worth getting it all for.