Split spacebars are surely the next big gaming keyboard trend

There are countless upgrades you could make to a gaming setup, but one small change feels like a genuine improvement: splitting the spacebar. Most keycaps are 1U, the bottom row is often 1.25U, the right shift around 2.75U, and a spacebar typically measures 6.25U.

That makes it a huge piece of real estate for a key you usually hit with a thumb. Altering the spacebar affects your whole layout. It's easy enough to remap a spacebar in software, but much harder to retrain your thumb in the heat of a game—spacebar-because-jump is practically instinct.

A split layout lets you keep the side you naturally hit as jump while programming the other half for other actions. For example, using a Wooting 60HE v2, I mapped the left half to delete because the 60% board lacks a dedicated delete key. For gaming the possibilities multiply: if you use your left thumb for space, the right half can become a chunky melee button, an in-game voice key, or something game-specific like a counter in Deadlock.

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