Colemak Keyboard Layout
Did you know that the Qwerty keyboard layout was designed to slow down your typing speed? It’s intended purpose was to prevent paper jams in typewriters, but in today’s age and technology it can be anti-productive. Starting tonight I will be going “cold turkey” and make a complete switch from Qwerty to Colemak. At one point in time I did experiment with the Dvorak keyboard layout, but I would always switch between the two layouts while programming. One of my biggest pet-peeves have always been the locations of the Ctrl+Z, Ctrl+X, Ctrl+C, and Ctrl+V shortcuts.
Colemak is still a relatively new keyboard layout, the final draft was released on January 1, 2006 but after some research I discovered that Colemak was designed to be a practical alternative, not to just Qwerty, but also intended to surpass Dvorak’s flaws.
About six months ago I read about papmech’s experience with the Colemak keyboard layout and it has been on my mind since. But why so long? I was waiting to make things harder purchase the redeveloped Das Keyboard II, or in German, ‘The Keyboard’. It features blank keys, supreme durability, mechanical gold plated key switches, a layout that is divided over several pressure zones, and most importantly no “Windows” key.
Current typing speed: ~7wpm
March 20th, 2007 at 3:51
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March 21st, 2007 at 14:32
This seems like a very interesting keyboard layout. It kinda looks like a spinoff of the qwerty layout. It looks like it’d be easy to change since it seems so similar. I’d definite try changing to it if I was able to use it no matter what computer I was at.
April 11th, 2007 at 18:25
I’m really considering switching to that layout. Seems much better to me than Dvorak (It’s got its fans, I’m just not one of them). Aside from keyboard layouts, I hit your site, and posted from my Wii again! Haha! Take that 1960’s culture!
April 19th, 2007 at 7:36
Hi! Grats on going Colemak!
I also hated the shortcut placements in Dvorak which eventually led me to Colemak. I hardly remember Dvo… who, again?
My board is a much cheaper Bzerk blank board. All the blackness of Das Keyboard, at a fraction of the price. Not a gold plate in sight, but with all the blackness who needs to see gold anyway? And durability is really overrated I believe, in the context that I never mash my keyboard in anger and by the time I get around to spilling brownish-black stuff in there no amount of durability is going to help much anyway.
June 4th, 2008 at 20:00
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