Basically, which keyboard layout is your favourite? I'm going to have to go with UK QWERTY, i like it and i've been using it for so long i've practically memorised it.

What about you?

QWERTY.....

Anything else would be completely unusable for me.....

Cant touch type on something I dont know the layout of.....

ISO QWERTY - I don't think there's any non-QWERTY keyboard even out there. O.o

http://cache.gizmodo.com/assets/resources/...-keyboard-1.jpg

I use that

QWERTY. I have never seen another type actually.

QWERTY. Toungy, although I personally have never seen any non QWERTY keyboards, they do exist.

There are also abcdefg like keyboards, seen one at a flea market before.

That looks funky, it's missing more than half of the keys though...

I don't think I'd be able to type on anything except qwerty.

I've seen them in pictures, just not for real.

AZERTY



almost everyone here uses AZERTY

Yeah. French people use AZERTY. I myself use QWERTY. My Pearl will have SureType (mini-QWERTY basically). See how that works out.

~Bcloutier~

QWERTY...Never really seen anything else, except on like phones...

Oh, I don't like the mini qwerty, where it has like qw on the same button.

And I just now learned about azerty.

I use a QWERTY. I head the alphabetical one is 30% more efficient, but no one is willing to make the switch and have to learn all over again.

What the...

safetype.com





How to use it.


This thing is just weird.

I've been using a few Pearls over the last week or so and I haven't had a problem with Mini QWERTY. SureType has been bang-on for what I want, even with someone else's typing style on there.

There's also T9 (not a true keyboard style, but used by many teenage girls ). T9 is the number pad on a regular cell phone. Just adding in another "keyboard".

~Bcloutier~

QWERTY. If you have an old IBM Model M and know key placement, you can modify it into whatever the heck you want it to be. Heck--you can select a different layout and then what's printed on each key is no longer relevant. I'm using QWERTY since I'm a pretty good touch typist as it is. I know these keyboards pretty well and I can type in the pitch dark with high accuracy, and not by cheating. I just know my keyboards that well that I don't worry about hitting the wrong key--I've been doing this for well over 80% of my life--not all as a touch typist but most of it. Other than that, I have to get rid of my current keyboard. It's trash--a Microsoft (Un)Comfort(able) Curve 2000.

QWERTY
But, there are other ones which are way easier and faster, jsut don't want to learn

-Ming

QWERTY

I would consider the Dvorak layout - as it's optimised to enhance typing speed. But, I switch PCs so often, and it's meant to be impossible to still be able to touch type on both layouts. If at some point in the future I'm just using one keyboard all the time, I will switch.

On a side note, it's a (somewhat immature but) fun trick to play on someone. Switch their keyboard layout to Dvorak. Under Windows it's even possible to set up quick-key-shortcuts that allow you switch instantly between layouts, and this even works when the PC is locked. Oh what fun I've had with this one...

AZERTY, it's what almost everyone uses here.

Using some different keys than standard, like where the delete, home, and stuff like that should be.

I would be unable to switch from QWERTY: laptops and almost all other computers use it, so you're stuck with it.

QWERTY.

Only one I've ever used.

apple FTW...sorry for hating haha, just worked at a pc shop for 3 years QWERTY forever. I was using one of those world of warcraft keyboards with all the stuff on the left side...i forgot what brand it was...zboard mabey

Hehehehehe. Same here - our typing teacher thought the computers had gotten a virus or something - it took her two years to understand, and only because we told her. She almost killed us, but it was for a good cause.

I've used QZERTY and QWERTY, and I like the latter better. I found myself having lots of problems with Dvorak keyboards, however - and I'm a master of T9 typing

That's clearly not the case...

He is referring to what people use in Belgium.

I use QWERTY. I can type really fast on it (like really, really fast) and I have the entire keyboard layout memorized.

I use QWERTY and DVORAK.

I don't know how anyone uses anything other than QWERTY, I thought it was the international standard for our alphabet with minor modifications for languages with a few extra/different letters.

For me, QWERTY is the only one that makes sense to use. As a touch typist doing over 100 WPM easily, I can't get used to another keyboard layout. I've used QWERTY for too long. I hear that going from QWERTY to AZERTY isn't too hard, though.

~Bcloutier~

Ooo, please elaborate! I think it'll be a fun trick to play on family and friends

And I'm a QWERTY fan myself. Never seen or used anything else.

EDIT: Oh, and is there any keyboards that makes one hand typing quicker? Because I can only type efficiently with one hand, and I'm curious if anything is faster than QWERTY.

Same with me

I like DVORAK, but I'm alright at Qwerty

Its called a Chorded keyboard

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chorded_keyboard

You have to learn how to use it though