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 ...

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 ...

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