Better keyboard layouts

[integral]

For years, I've been redesigning the keyboard because the regular keyboard layout never made any sense to me.

I recently switched to a Mac and the first thing i did was remapped some basic keys, maybe you guys would find this interesting.

• caps lock -> Speech to text
• tab -> enter
• Tild (button bellow escape key) -> backspace
• Command + tab -> screen shot

This way your left hand could always stay on the keyboard and your right hand could stay on the mouse, now you don't need to move your right hand to the keyboard as often saving a lot of time.

I used karabiner elements (mac) to remap. 

Edited Saturday at 06:54 PM by integral

[Opulence]

Caps Lock + Space → Screenshot

 

[LastThursday]

I used to use Dvorak layout for programming. I got quite proficient at it, but never as fast as qwerty. As a bonus nobody could ever get into my work laptop, even if I told them the password. Dvorak, good security, but it's over hyped for typing speed.

For a long while I also had the number keys inverted on a standard layout for programming. That meant I could use punctuation without having to constantly use the shift key. Numbers in most progamming languages are less common than punctuation, so I had those shifted.

For Windows I use Keyboard Layout Creator.