Wednesday, October 26, 2011

Colemak or Dvorak? Something better than QWERTY is welcome

I must say sorry by leave the blog alone the past weeks, but it's not as easy as I thought keep it updated, because life keeps running and sometimes I forget to go back.
But well, talking about interesting things this week I began to question the QWERTY keyboard layout, after a class in university. Of course I already knew from many years another keyboard layout (Dvorak) by a friend (Esteban Ordano), but I had never considered using it.
Finally, I don't choosed it, but also not choosed QWERTY, simply I went to Colemak. I guess everyone has their reasons for choosing each other, but my only thought few days ago was to leave the standard distribution.
But may be you can ask "what's wrong with QWERTY?" Well, as I have understood, was designed for people to write slow and avoid typewriters lock up by having their hammers hitting by themselves.
Another curious thing that I encountered, you can write perfectly "typewriter" in QWERTY without moving the hand of top row (try it :P). I don't remember well because it was, but was somewhat curious.
Colemak Keyboard Layout
Colemak I decided to go by, because it maintains a certain essence of QWERTY keyboard (as it relates to hotkeys, ctrl + [cxzvqwa] stay equal) but doing a great improve. But I'm kind of sad that there's not an optimized version for Spanish :( (as Dvorak), but hey, better than the standard is.
Over time I will tell you of my progress.
Greetings or Dpffgukdr in Colemak.

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