![]() That is probably why it gets points for coding.Most people accept the QWERTY keyboard layout without any complaint. Then when chatting online with someone, you'll notice that characters like ':)' will be a pain due to the placement of the ' '. 'L', 'F' comes to mind but you soon get the hang of it. You will find some letters just not falling to hand as easy as they were with Colemak. Some of you will ask the question 'Why?'. Going from Colemak to Dvorak is painfully slow progress. Kinda fatigues the left hand in my opinion. I do feel that when it comes to certain words, you're literally typing with just one hand and that can get tiresome a bit. The placement of the letters is somewhat better. On a Mac, the Colemak layout shines in this area. ![]() ![]() That said, the only reason that I chose Colemak is the because of the shortcuts. But that does not mean its the best for normal typing in English although it comes a close second. Considering that Programmer Dvorak is not a standard installed layout on any OS, I guess Simplified Dvorak is the next best for coding (As IS) and does not need to be specifically installed. That said, according to it shows Programmer Dvorak & Simplified Dvorak comes a close second. But when I talk about choosing a layout for programing, I'm thinking of using it as is. I know that most people who are involved with coding would use remapped settings and stuff and that is a nice idea. Do you ever wish that you started using Colemak 1st than using Dvorak? I actually had a relatively non-technical friend decide to try Caps Lock -> Backspace (on an otherwise QWERTY board) and he's been raving about it - Thanks for the idea. Yes, I could use this modification with any layout, but it was Colemak that introduced me to the idea and it's by far my single favourite layout improvement. Modifications I'm yet to try are the US punctuation layout (better positioning of "), and flipping the number row so that the numerals are on shift. Various attempts I've made at creating an Alt-Gr layout for punctuation haven't really paid off either, since I found bending my thumb inwards to hold Alt-Gr awkward and anything else involves so much movement I might as well have pressed the original key. I didn't know this at the time, but in retrospect I don't think moving the punctuation keys is very important, beyond getting the semi-colon off home row. ![]() This was something I liked being able to do with QWERTY, so Colemak happening to share the keys was a boon in itself. I'm left-handed but taught myself to mouse with my right, so typical workflow is click > move mouse > shift-click to highlight > Ctrl-X > move mouse > click > Ctrl-V. Shortcuts! Having a bank of shortcut keys in the lower-left corner of the keyboard really helps me. By which point it's too late )Ī few things I forgot to mention in my previous post (was rushing it a bit, had dinner in the oven!): Since I haven't been doing much proper typing practice since matching QWERTY speed, practising the alternate fingering only occurs to me after I happen to type an awkward digraph. I've practised alternate fingerings for "kn"," lk" and the like, but often find that I forget to use them when concentrating on what I'm typing rather than how I'm typing it.
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