60% keyboards (question and invitation)

[Halvar]

The percentages are all slightly off -- doesn't really matter because the general idea is what I also think it should be. Calculate the percentage, round up or down to a multiple of 5%, and you got your name ...

I don't think this has to do with the actual width of the keyboard, more with the amount of keys.
An oldschool winkeyless US fullsize keyboard has 101 keys, the HHKB Pro 2 for example has 60 this is pretty much 60,6% [60/101=59.4%] compared to the 101 Keys of the fullsize. If we Compare this to a 104 keyboard (with windows keys), a HHKB would be a 62,4% [60/104 = 57.7%] keyboard.

The HHKB Pro 2 JP with 70 Keys would be a 70,7% [70/101=69,3%] keyboard compared to a 101 and a 72,8% [70/104=67,3%] keyboard compared to the 104 keys fullsize board.

[Daniel Beardsmore]

Alexander Clauss no longer seems to have the photo on his website of some packaged food product with something like 145% pork in it … (With a caption in German to the effect of "His pocket calculator is broken")

I updated the 60% page yesterday to account for the uncertainty as to what this product is.

The first keyboard I remember seeing in this form was the Poker, and I remember wondering what all the fuss was about some "Poker" keyboard, and having to dig around to find out what it was. I seem to recall that it was marketed as a 60% keyboard even then (the EU Poker thread was probably the first place I ever posted here, briefly, before returning to geekhack until it got rootwormed — I was really hoping an ISO Poker would get the green light), but it's likely that Korea had 60% keyboards before us, and the name may have originated outside of our experience.

[cookie]

The percentages are all slightly off -- doesn't really matter because the general idea is what I also think it should be. Calculate the percentage, round up or down to a multiple of 5%, and you got your name ...

I don't think this has to do with the actual width of the keyboard, more with the amount of keys.
An oldschool winkeyless US fullsize keyboard has 101 keys, the HHKB Pro 2 for example has 60 this is pretty much 60,6% [60/101=59.4%] compared to the 101 Keys of the fullsize. If we Compare this to a 104 keyboard (with windows keys), a HHKB would be a 62,4% [60/104 = 57.7%] keyboard.

The HHKB Pro 2 JP with 70 Keys would be a 70,7% [70/101=69,3%] keyboard compared to a 101 and a 72,8% [70/104=67,3%] keyboard compared to the 104 keys fullsize board.

Just to clarify my calculations:
Lets say a 104 keys keyboard is 100% so 1 key would be.. AWWW DAMMIT! I got it

[Ekaros]

63 keys would be 60% of 105 keys... Hmm.

[Muirium]

I think my little custom 60% has 63 keys. Quite coincidentally, as I added a few to the straight Poker layout.

15+14+13+13+8=63, Cookie.