I've switched to the Colemak keyboard layout this August. I used to be a QWERTZ (swiss german variant of QWERTY to be exact) and later QWERTY user for many years, but felt like I should change to a ...

We go over some alternative keymaps, colemak and dvorak and make a recommendation on which one is the best and if you should ...

The standard QWERTY keyboard layout may not actually be your friend. According to popular legend, the QWERTY keyboard was created in the 1860s by a man named Christopher Latham Sholes in response to a ...

Alternative keyboards have been around for a long time, and while the traditional QWERTY keyboard won the fight, that doesn't mean the other layouts aren't worth considering. Advocates for alternative ...

If you answered yes, we have some bad news because you are probably wrong. It turns out the QWERTY layout — a keyboard that has “Q”, “W”, “E”, “R”, “T”, and “Y” as the first keys from the left on the ...

Alternative keyboard layouts like Colemak and Dvorak are nothing new; they allow easier access to more often used keys to reduce the strain placed on the hands during typing. Building on the ...

However the accented keys are definitely a real help. Zll of the accented characters in the Hungarian alphabet are vowels, so you end up using accented characters in almost every word. Click to expand ...