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#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?

#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?

#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?

#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?

#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

I think I've gotten the hang of it

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

I think I've gotten the hang of it

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

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.

Pulled out my Alpha Geek Keyboard tonight.
#planck + #Colemak #keyboards

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

@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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

@patrick Woaw! I feel like I need this #vim plugin too!

First time I hear about #touchtyping
practice outside a navigator.

Will be dramatically useful for #colemak or #dvorak practice.

https://github.com/nvzone/typr

so I've been using an #ortholinear 40% keyboard with #colemak layout (all 3 things are a first for me) for 10 days, doing a bit of programming, and testing my typing speed every day

I'm now finally hitting 100 cpm, which is, i feel, roughly 60% of my typing speed before the switch

the first week was harsh. i knew where the keys were, but my fingers just wouldn't hit them

so I've been using an #ortholinear 40% keyboard with #colemak layout (all 3 things are a first for me) for 10 days, doing a bit of programming, and testing my typing speed every day

I'm now finally hitting 100 cpm, which is, i feel, roughly 60% of my typing speed before the switch

the first week was harsh. i knew where the keys were, but my fingers just wouldn't hit them

I've started exploring a modern #AltKeyboardLayout called #Gallium, very similar to the #Graphite layout. It is reported to have a nice flow to it, will see how it compares to the #ISRT (#Colemak based) layout that's I've been using up until now. #MechKeyboard #ErgoKeyboard

https://www.teachmaths.org/index.php/2024/10/02/gallium-keyboard-layout/

I've started exploring a modern #AltKeyboardLayout called #Gallium, very similar to the #Graphite layout. It is reported to have a nice flow to it, will see how it compares to the #ISRT (#Colemak based) layout that's I've been using up until now. #MechKeyboard #ErgoKeyboard

https://www.teachmaths.org/index.php/2024/10/02/gallium-keyboard-layout/

I've started exploring a modern #AltKeyboardLayout called #Gallium, very similar to the #Graphite layout. It is reported to have a nice flow to it, will see how it compares to the #ISRT (#Colemak based) layout that's I've been using up until now. #MechKeyboard #ErgoKeyboard

https://www.teachmaths.org/index.php/2024/10/02/gallium-keyboard-layout/

I've started exploring a modern #AltKeyboardLayout called #Gallium, very similar to the #Graphite layout. It is reported to have a nice flow to it, will see how it compares to the #ISRT (#Colemak based) layout that's I've been using up until now. #MechKeyboard #ErgoKeyboard

https://www.teachmaths.org/index.php/2024/10/02/gallium-keyboard-layout/

I've started exploring a modern #AltKeyboardLayout called #Gallium, very similar to the #Graphite layout. It is reported to have a nice flow to it, will see how it compares to the #ISRT (#Colemak based) layout that's I've been using up until now. #MechKeyboard #ErgoKeyboard

https://www.teachmaths.org/index.php/2024/10/02/gallium-keyboard-layout/

@padraig I have the ZSA Voyager, which is a very nice keyboard. I use the ISRT layout, which is a variant on Colemak-DH. You can find the layout here:
https://configure.zsa.io/voyager/layouts/jYDdw/latest/0
#mechanicalkeyboard #isrt #colemak

Hello #Colemak and #ColemakDH experts out there.
I would like to have your hints, ideas and guidelines on my thoughts.

https://marcoxbresciani.codeberg.page/keyboards/colemak-it.html

The most famous layouts are English-based, but what if I want to create something based on Italian letters frequencies?

Just hit 100+WPM on my #colemak dh keyboard after daily-driving it for 1.5 years! 🏆 I feel like I've crossed a finish line. #keeb #colemak #colemakdh #typing #electronics #keyboard

Weekly Post #13 #apple #tesla #fsd #google #podcasts #throughthelens #quote #internetheatmap #readwise #reader #anybox #pinning #tax #colemak #qwerty

https://arkoinad.com/posts/weekly_post_13.html

Projects on my plate (in no particular order; or maybe it is in priority-order):

1. My personal #Hugo / #GoHugo boilerplate (with #a11y (accessibility), #microformats, #fediverse, #IndieWeb, support)

2. #Filipino language in #Hangeul. (Temporarily calling it #FilipinoHangeul.)

So far, I've mapped the IPA phonemic between Korean #Hangul and the Filipino language.

Inspired by:
a. #CiaCial Hangeul (actually in use)
b. #TaiwaneseHangul
c. #FilipinoHanzi (Filipino language in Hanzi [Chinese script])
d. Taiwanese Kana

3. #AnsalonMUD #MUDlet client.

I'm porting our #Lua / #LuaLang scripts from #MUSHclient to MUDlet, as well as, create a new UI and other MUDlet widgets.

I like the current version of MUDlet, it has come far since I last tried it; and personally, is now better than MUSHclient. Not only that, MUDlet is cross-platform while MUSHclient is Windows only. Since I'm using #Linux, a native client is much preferred than using #WINE.

4. An update to the #Philippines Unicode Keyboard Layout.

'Was put on-hold indefinitely. There is a plan to submit a bill to the Senate and Lower House to standardised keyboards and keyboard layout for the Philippines.

Whatever becomes the “law”, will be the next update for PUKL.

Layouts planned:
* A true #Baybayin layout.
* QWERTY (with Baybayin)
* #Colemak (with Baybayin)
* #Dvorak (with Baybayin)

Standardising this will ensure that the default keyboard layout for Windows, Mac, Linux, Android, iOS, will be the one we designed for Philippine / Filipino use.

In addition to that, physical keyboards will have the same layout, instead of keys flying here and there. If we need an extra key, then we'll include an extra key (like in the Japanese and Korean keyboards).

For this project, it's going to take a long time because my country is terrible when it comes to standardisation. Imagine this, only government agencies are required to use the SI/Metric system. Everyone else can use whatever they want, SI, Metric, Imperial, Traditional, or alien. (This is another project I'm thinking of taking on much later.)

@jjasghar Oh my, default #vi key bindings from a Dvorak layout. hjkl does not quite hit the same.

(Says the #colemak #ergodox user)

I was away from home for more than 2 weeks. I just took my first typing challenge with my corne keyboard since coming back and I break my PR 💪

#MonkeyType #Corne #crkbd #colemak #SplitKeyboard

Forgot to promote the video but I have a video on kmonad which is a better solution than using xmodmap.
#kmonad #linux #windows #macos #xmodmap #colemak #dvorak #keyboard #qmk
https://youtu.be/8t5qAXsKLZg

To all my peeps that use alternative keyboard layouts, can you switch easily between your layout and a standard Qwerty layout?

**Please #boost for more feedback**

#keyboards #qwerty #MechanicalKeyboard #Colemak #workman #dvorak

After many months of using the Preonic, I switched back to the Planck. Turns out I just don't use Function keys, even when they're sitting there as a top row. I did migrate over the keycaps, though. I'm still a fan of blank keycaps, but really like the look of the Mito SA.

I'm also still using a COLEMAK layout, with some adjustments. The gory details can be found here: https://git.skj.dev/sean/qmk_firmware/src/commit/4e86e77f52fb810e0347c59c23894c98b73db58c/keyboards/planck/keymaps/ttys0/keymap.c

#MechanicalKeyboard #OLKB #Planck #Colemak #QMK

Sigue la crónica para los fanáticos de las distribuciones re teclados! Terminé de re-escribir en python, el codigo que hace un análisis demperformance en 8 distribuciones de teclado dentro de las cuales se encuentran las versiones españolas del Qwerty y Dvorak. Realizo un benchmark que es la media cuadrática de 3 factores, la distancia recorrida por los dedos, la alternancia de las manos, y la fracción de los combos de 2 y 3 letras que se ejecutan con la misma mano (izq o der) y que respetan el inbound-rolling finger motion, el movimiento hacia el interior. El indicador inbound-rolling es el promedio de ambas manos 50% cada una y luego 2-letras un peso de 66% y 3-letras un 33% por ser menos frecuentes. La alternancia computada como la cantidad de cambios consecutivos de mano, sobre el total de caracteres. La performance general inicialmente con un peso de 33% para cada indicador (distancia, alternancia, rolls), pero probe variaciones de todas formas y... spoiler alert --> gana siempre el Dvorak. El peor de todos es... spoiler alert --> Qwerty. En breve vere de correrlo con textos más grandes y variar los parámetros #dvorak #keyboard #layout #qwerty #colemak #arensito #workman #minimak #capewell #norman

So you changed your keyboard layout and you are wondering how to change it for your Linux server or your Linux Desktop. Here is the guide for you. #linux #dvorak #colemak #workman #keyboard
https://youtu.be/8FGSJfAy9rs

Bueno, volví a hacer un análisis de texto de lo que escribo, y nuevamente la distribución Dvorak Español es la más eficiente. Es imponente este teclado, pensar que fue diseñado en la década del 30 y en este test está comparado con varios más modernos, como el Colemak, Workman, y Neo2, igualmente Colemak le sigue muy de cerca. Sigue asombrándome esta obra maestra del diseño. Pueden analizar sus propios textos en esta página y compararlos con otra distribuciones. Incluí la Qwerty, para que vean lo ineficiente que es. http://patorjk.com/keyboard-layout-analyzer/#/main #dvorak #layout #colemak #workman #qwerty #neo2 #keyboard #teclado #typing

@sotneStatue @yyp @metalune Not sure if that's what @sotolf uses, but #EurKEY is pretty great:
https://eurkey.steffen.bruentjen.eu/
There is a variant of EurKEY for #Colemak-DH (https://gitlab.com/jungganz/eurkey-colemak-mod-dh) but I guess they just use the multilingual Colemak layout (https://colemak.com/Multilingual) or something custom, since they have talked about using Colemak in the past.

Hey fediverse, what #keyboard layout are you using? Vote for #qwerty #dvorak #colemak #workman and comment for other layouts.
Would love to hear your thoughts on Colemak and Workman specifically. Boosts appreciated.

Configuring the mechanical keyboard to experiment and see if the colemak mod-dh layout improves my flow a little or not.

#mechanicalkeyboard #annepro2 #colemak

I adore my #cat Lola, parlez un peu de #français , and am looking to have a kid eventually. #PokemonGo was my first Pokemon game, and I love it still. I type with #Colemak and recently overcame chronic pain in my foot with a combination of PT and #MMJ . I love #JapaneseFood and sobbed through the whole last episode of #Evangelion because I needed to hear its message that it's okay to like yourself. My favorite music is college radio, #KXLU or #KXUA , and I am a #Maximizer AMA.