Is anyone else using a different keyboard layout?

I’m typing this with my keyboard configured in Colemak, and I’ve had it that way since yesterday. Not for any real reason, just was curious. I’m typing in strange sentences now cause I have to think about every letter. Anyone else non-qwerty and happy with it?

I have been Dvorak for almost twenty years now.

Well, my mom used to work for IBM and she’d bring back those old clickety-clack keyboards and I’d rearrange them into alphabetical order and pretend I was an uber-secretary / nuclear missile launch operator (depending on the day of week). Does that count?

Then Mavis Beacon forcibly re-educated me :frowning:

How’s Colemak working out for ya? Are you coming from a QWERTY background, and if so, any noticeable improvement thus far?

Does US/International count? I like being able to type in either English or French without changing keyboard layouts or using ALT keys for accents. I end up hitting the space bar a bit more, but it’s really not a big deal.

As an example, if I type the following two characters ’ e one after the other, I get é, but if I hit the first, then space, then the second, I get 'e. Very simple to learn.

Not me. I’d be curious to know if anybody who learned to touch-type on QWERTY could ever learn to use a different one.

I didn’t touch-type on QWERTY before I picked up Dvorak, but my husband did. His QWERTY speed is a little slower than it was, but he can still touch-type in either.

Germany’s Z isn’t where ours is, and the @ is hard to make… There’s a few others which are different. Just can’t think of them all. Need “brain food” Ah reckon! :wink:

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