List of Latin-script keyboard layouts
This is a chart of alternative keyboard layouts for typing latin characters. National and specialized versions of QWERTY which do not change the letter keys are not included.
Layout | Design priorities | Base language, country | Created year | # changes from QWERTY | Backspace location | Extra arrow keys? | Programmer features? | Math and symbols? | Modifiers (#core, #aux) | Dead keys? |
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QWERTY | Typewriter operation | English, US | 1870 (approx.) | 0 | upper right | no | no | mostly no | varies | varies |
Dvorak | Ergonomics (hand alternation) | English, US | 1936 | 28 | upper right | no | varies | no | 1 main, 1 aux | varies |
Colemak | Ergonomics (total movement, combos); QWERTY learning [1] | English, US | 2006 | 17 | center left (QWERTY capslock) | no | no | no | 1 main, 1 aux | 14 aux; acute accent non-dead |
Workman | Ergonomics (lateral extension, finger-specific); QWERTY learning [2] | English, US | 2010 | 22 | center left (QWERTY capslock) | no | varies | no | 1 main, 1 aux | 14 aux; acute accent non-dead |
Neo | Ergonomics (home row, alternation) [3] | German, Germany | 2010 | 28 | top right, and shifted alternate | yes | yes (home-area shifted punctuation) | yes | 3 main | 3 main; 8 shifted; 6 aux |
Bépo | QWERTY similarity; Ergonomics (combos, home row)[4] | French, France | 2004-2006 | 29 | center left (QWERTY capslock) | no | yes (unshifted punctuation) | some | 1 main, 1 aux | 14 aux |
Asset | QWERTY similarity; Ergonomics (combos, home row)[5] | English, US | 2006 | 15 | center left (QWERTY capslock) | no | no | no | 1 main | No |
Minimak | QWERTY learning; Ergonomics (total movement, repetition) [6] | English, US | 2012 | 8 default (versions with 4 or 12 available) | center left (QWERTY capslock) | no | no | no | 1 main, 1 aux | ?? |
Qwpr | QWERTY learning; Ergonomics (total movement, repetition) [7] | English, US | 2013 | 11 | left (QWERTY tab) | yes | yes (home-area shifted punctuation) | yes | 2 main | 1 main, 2 shifted, 4 aux |
JCUKEN | Phonetic similarity to ЙЦУКЕН | International, USSR | 1919 | 30 | upper right | no | no | no | ? | ? |
Turkish (F-keyboard) | Ergonomics for Turkish (letter frequency and hand muscles) | Turkish, Turkey | 1955 | 27 | upper right | no | no | no | ? | ? |
Sources:
- http://xahlee.info/kbd/dvorak_and_all_keyboard_layouts.html
- http://colemak.com/Alternative_layouts
- https://sourceforge.net/p/qwpr/wiki/Comparison/
- ^ http://colemak.com/Easy_to_learn , http://forum.colemak.com/viewtopic.php?id=39, http://forum.colemak.com/viewtopic.php?id=254
- ^ http://www.workmanlayout.com/
- ^ http://wiki.neo-layout.org/wiki/Paradigmen
- ^ http://bepo.fr/wiki/Pr%C3%A9sentation
- ^ http://millikeys.sourceforge.net/asset/
- ^ http://www.minimak.org/faq/
- ^ https://sourceforge.net/p/qwpr/wiki/