Keybord layouts collection

keyboard-layouts-40.md

Layouts for 40% keyboards

keyboard-layouts.md

Collection of keyboard layouts

QWERTY by Christopher Latham Sholes, 1873 (yes, without number 1 key):

2 3 4 5 6  7 8 9 - ,
Q W E . T  Y I U O P
Z S D F G  H J K L M
A X & C V  B N ? ; R

QWERTY by Remington, 1878, who bought Sholes' desing and changed it for marketing purpose with no consideration of the science behind it. Has 46 keys. It's what most of people use nowadays:

1 2 3 4 5  6 7 8 9 0 - =
Q W E R T  Y U I O P [ ] \
A S D F G  H J K L ; '
Z X C V B  N M , . /

Dvorak by August Dvorak, 1932, optimised for speed and fingers load:

! 7 5 3 1  9 0 2 4 6 8 =
? , . P Y  F G C R L /
A O E U I  D H T N S -
' Q J K X  B M W V Z

Dvorak, modern US version:

1 2 3 4 5  6 7 8 9 0 [ ]
' , . P Y  F G C R L / = \
A O E U I  D H T N S -
; Q J K X  B M W V Z

Colemak by Shai Coleman, 2006, takes QWERTY as a base and applies the Dvorak's ideas:

1 2 3 4 5  6 7 8 9 0 - =
Q W F P G  J L U Y ; [ ] \
A R S T D  H N E I O '
Z X C V B  K M , . /

Colemak Mod-DH, tuned to be more comfortable:

1 2 3 4 5  6 7 8 9 0 - =
Q W F P B  J L U Y ; [ ] \
A R S T G  K N E I O '
Z X C D V  M H , . /

Carpalx by Martin Krzywinski, fully optimized:

1 2 3 4 5  6 7 8 9 0 - =
Q G M L W  Y F U B ; [ ] \
D S T N R  I A E O H '
Z X C V J  K P , . /

Halmak by Nikolay Nemshilov, 2016, produced by some genetic algorithms:

1 2 3 4 5  6 7 8 9 0 - =
W L R B Z  ; Q U D J [ ] \
S H N T ,  . A E O I '
F M V C /  G P X K Y