# Is anyone else using a different keyboard layout? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [March 26, 2009, 10:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-anyone-else-using-a-different-keyboard-layout/490848 "2009-03-26T10:16:31Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Mojo\_Pin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/6a8cbe/32.png) [@Mojo\_Pin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mojo_Pin)\ **Post date:** [March 26, 2009, 10:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-anyone-else-using-a-different-keyboard-layout/490848/1 "2009-03-26T10:16:31Z")
I’m typing this with my keyboard configured in [Colemak](http://colemak.com/), 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? ---
**Author:** ![ENugent](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/4af34b/32.png) [@ENugent](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ENugent)\ **Post date:** [March 26, 2009, 6:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-anyone-else-using-a-different-keyboard-layout/490848/2 "2009-03-26T18:22:55Z")
I have been Dvorak for almost twenty years now. ---
**Author:** ![Reply](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/reply/32/15952_2.png) [@Reply](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Reply)\ **Post date:** [March 26, 2009, 6:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-anyone-else-using-a-different-keyboard-layout/490848/3 "2009-03-26T18:40:52Z")
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 ☹ How’s Colemak working out for ya? Are you coming from a QWERTY background, and if so, any noticeable improvement thus far? ---
**Author:** ![mnemosyne](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/c4cdca/32.png) [@mnemosyne](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mnemosyne)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2009, 2:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-anyone-else-using-a-different-keyboard-layout/490848/4 "2009-03-27T02:34:45Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![KlondikeGeoff](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/3e96dc/32.png) [@KlondikeGeoff](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KlondikeGeoff)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2009, 5:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-anyone-else-using-a-different-keyboard-layout/490848/5 "2009-03-27T17:16:00Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![ENugent](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/4af34b/32.png) [@ENugent](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ENugent)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2009, 11:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-anyone-else-using-a-different-keyboard-layout/490848/6 "2009-03-27T23:29:00Z")
> [@KlondikeGeoff](#): > > 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. ---
**Author:** ![Quasimodem](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/e274bd/32.png) [@Quasimodem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quasimodem)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2009, 11:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-anyone-else-using-a-different-keyboard-layout/490848/7 "2009-03-27T23:32:25Z")
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! 😉 Q