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And the full thing

#avalanchev4 #customkeyboard #keyboard #qmk #colemak #splitkeyboard

Wanted to show my Avalanche V4 custom split keyboard. Features blank keycaps, because I can't be bothered to find a proper keycap set with uniform profile and runs QMK.

#customkeyboard #avalanchev4 #splitkeyboard #colemak #QMK

#Question for all you #MechanicalKeyboards aficionados out there: #QWERTY or #Colemak Mod-DH?

Situation: my 10yo kid will begin mid-school in September and wants my #ErgoDash (see picture) for his own computer (that I still have to buy!).
ErgoDash is currently configured with a QWERTY layout, customized with Italian accented letters as per picture.
Should I reconfigure it to Colemak Mod-DH, instead, before giving him the keeb?

I think I've gotten the hang of it

#colemak #colemakDH #noqwerty #typing #speedtyping #ergonomics #imfastasfuckboi

Added lessons and progress tracking for the Dvorak and Colemak keyboard layouts, all bundled with the installation.

https://www.clavir.io
https://crates.io/crates/clavirio
https://github.com/alexylon/clavirio

#rust #rustlang #cli #terminal #typing #opensource #touchtyping #Dvorak #Colemak #tui #ratatui

Una de esas curiosidades que vuela la cabeza a mis alumnos de Mecanografía: por qué las letras están en ese orden en el teclado y no en cualquier otro? pues todo indica que por «fastidiar» y evitar que escribiéramos demasiado rápido con la tecnología original. Lo de escribir rápidamente la palabra «máquina de escribir» en inglés (typewriter) usando solo teclas de la fila superior para vender esta distribución suena más a leyenda urbana, pero también me gusta contarlo como curiosidad.

Es una pena que sea tan complicado cambiar a estas alturas a distribuciones mucho más sensatas como Colemak o incluso Dvorak. Mientras tanto, me conformo con mostrar una versión web interactiva.

You know #Colemak works far too well when your typos on mobile are undetectable until you read it the 6th time after posting. 😆

It’s now three years since I ditched qwerty for #Colemak full time.

No regrets (except when I need to use a Windows machine).

In other shocking events, the #debian 13 graphical installer does not provide an option for a #colemak keyboard layout?!? First time I’ve tried desktop Debian… perhaps I can configure it post-install… but if not, I may have to take on a side quest.

Unsure if I've even mentioned this anywhere before,

but I've maintain a "Steam Curator" page for the last few years, keeping a log of how well games handle custom keyboard layouts - feel free to follow it if you want to see a note on Steam Store pages telling you whether a game's keybind settings are up-to-snuff:

https://store.steampowered.com/curator/41937625-Can-You-Change-The-Keybinds

spoiler: they rarely are. )= #gaming #accessiblegaming #keyboard #mechanicalkeyboards #ergonomickeyboard #ergonomics #QMK #ZMK #keyboardlayout #Colemak #indiedev #gamedev

people using alternative layouts other than #colemak and #dvorak, what layout do you use, how is your experience with it and why did you choose it over the aforementioned ones? do you use vim or any other simmilar modal editor?

#ergo #keyboard #keyboardlayout #keyboards #workman #typing

I’m trying to learn Colemak just for the giggles. I’m coming from Qwerty so that’s fun. Any tips for learning Colemak or general tips for learning any new layout? The main resource I’ve been using is the Colemak Club site below to learn the layout. After I learn all the keys I plan to move to something like keybr.com for speeding up.

https://gnusenpai.net/colemakclub/

https://www.keybr.com/

#Colemak #Typing #Keyboard #KeyboardLayout

I was afraid to separate from #qwerty,
because I feared a lack of support for alternative layouts on my everyday apps.

Guess what!
The switch was painless thanks to people sharing there dots here and there. ☺

I share mines in return 😘 with #colemak (dh) support for: #nvim #vim #kitty #fish (vim mod) and #niri

https://github.com/pipelight/normal.nixos

I’ve been on Colemak-DH for a while now, but I’ve finally got around to looking at the specifics of my switchover and compiling a document that might be useful to folks considering switching.

You can read the deets here: https://vale.rocks/posts/typing-systems

#Colemak #Keyboards

@rudantu It will get better and better over time. 👍 #colemak #ColemakDH

switched to #colemak a couple months ago and I don't recommend it. Too much work to switch and then you'll need to remap keybinds in programs. Then there will still be places in qwerty, another device etc.

So it you want improved #ergo I recommend limiting mouse usage. Vim and vim bindings in browser has a bigger payoff with a smaller learning curve.

i just realized i've been using #colemak for more than a year... maybe it's time to switch layouts again? :02lurk: that would be my 4rd time switching layouts lol(first qwerty then dvorak but back to qwerty bcs can't C-c with left hand only, then colemak)

Ciao,
experts of #MechanicalKeyboards and #CustomLayout!
I need your opinions about a hack of #Colemak (actually #ColemakDH ) for Italian, to understand if my reasoning is correct.
What do you think about this? https://marcoxbresciani.codeberg.page/keyboards/colemak-it.html

For some odd reason I like collecting hobbies. My latest is changing my keyboard layout to #Colemak - I’m making a light-hearted attempt to blog about it over at https://braydenwise.com - any other alt keyboard layout users out there?

This is actually cool, a hand-held keyboard. Unfortunately for me, it's QWERTY. When it comes to hand-held / virtual keyboards, my muscle memory is #Colemak.

@NuclearSquid @MartignagoJerome J'utilise effectivement #colemak depuis plusieurs années 😄

@nicolas_fournier Je ne sais pas si c’est du premier degré ou pas… Mais non, le Qwerty n’a pas été inventé pour ralentir la frappe. Il a juste été pensé pour éviter les roulements, afin de ne pas coincer les marteaux sur les machines à écrire mécaniques. Comme le Dvorak.

Les dispositions ergonomiques modernes comme Colemak ou Ergo‑L, qui sont optimisées pour les claviers informatiques et non les machines à écrire, favorisent les roulements.

@ploum @NuclearSquid

#Dvorak #Bépo #Ergol #Colemak

How many words can you type using only characters on the home row of your keyboard using different layouts? Using /usr/share/dict/words on my machine:

% cd /usr/share/dict
% wc -l words
104334 words

% grep -Pci "^[asdfghjkl;-]+$" words #Qwerty
188

% grep -Pci "^[anisfdthor]+$" words #Maltron
1276

% grep -Pci "^[aoeuidhtns-]+$" words #Dvorak
2059

% grep -Pci "^[ashtgyneoi']+$" words #Workman
2415

% grep -Pci "^[arstdhneio']+$" words #Colemak
5090

Tiny Typing Tutor Tuts At Your Incorrect Shift Usage - There are a wide range of typing tutors out there that will educate you in the glo... - https://hackaday.com/2025/02/13/tiny-typing-tutor-tuts-at-your-incorrect-shift-usage/ #softwarehacks #peripherals #typingtutor #keyboard #shiftkey #colemak #dvorak #qwerty #typing #shift