Hardware Which keyboard layout do you use?

[Chhotu uttam]

I have standard qwerty.

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qwertyuiop
asdfghjkl
zxcvbnm...

same here. Works so well for me, and it came standard with my computer :3

Same here
got it since I bought my PC

 

[Rayder]

I've never given this much thought myself. I just use the standard USA QWERTY setup. I'm not the fastest typist in the world, but I did learn touch typing in school. That was nearly 30 years ago. In hindsight, I should have payed more attention in that class. I didn't take it very seriously back then. I mean, who knew I'd be pecking away on a computer now, all those years ago?

To use some other layout would mess me up pretty badly.

 

[.Chris]

I use a USA QWERTY Keyboard.

 

[The Pi]

Standard UK layout, I hate using anything else. (I start to type like a 4 year old again)

 

[raulpica]

Italian QWERTY here. I also know quite a lot of the US keyboard layout. I'd switch to that one, if it weren't for the accented letters which are required from my native tongue

Here's what my layout looks like:
CODELowercaseÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂUppercase

\1234567890'ì |!"£$%&/()=?^
qwertyuiopè+ÂÂÂÂQWERTYUIOPé*
asdfghjklòàùÂÂÂÂASDFGHJKLç°§
ZXCVBNM;:_

 

[Mazor]

I know what you're getting at, OP, but I type fast enough not to be annoyed by what you're saying.
And I never look at the keyboard not even for special characters.

Swedish qwerty here... and I have no trouble what so ever programming and using special characters at all.
And yes, I program on a daily basis.

I only have to move my right thumb a little bit to the right to hit Alt Gr, and then I'm good to go with the special characters

I programmed in the native Swedish layout for years and it's only recently, after working at a place where almost everyone used US and I saw it in effect, that I made the switch. For me it was definitely not a case of going from slow to fast or annoyed to not annoyed, I was happy with what I had and was typing fast (of course never looking at the keyboard for any character).

Switching to US is definitely not a must, but there really is a considerable difference in speed, especially compared to layouts such as the Swedish one. For instance, moving your thumb to Alt Gr is a lot slower than not moving your thumb to Alt Gr.

QUOTE(raulpica @ Jul 14 2011, 05:08 PM)

Italian QWERTY here. I also know quite a lot of the US keyboard layout. I'd switch to that one, if it weren't for the accented letters which are required from my native tongue

You could just use US-International I mentioned in the OP.

Switching keyboard layouts is also just an Alt+Shift away in Windows once you've selected which ones you want to use.

 

[YayMii]

Fun fact: The QWERTY layout was initially designed to prevent old typewriters from jamming by placing the commonly used keys away from each other.
Theoretically, people should be able to type faster with the Dvorak layout, since it was designed to be more efficient, prevent typos, and prevent issues such as carpal tunnel syndrome. But nobody wants to make a change to something that nearly everybody's accustomed to, so we're stuck with the QWERTY layout for the most part.
I don't mind anyways, I've been using QWERTY my whole life.

 

[Sop]

qwerty

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qwertyuiop
asdfghjkl
zxcvbnm

 

[ZAFDeltaForce]

QWERTY.

It's what I've always been using, and it'd be annoying as hell to get used to another layout

 

[ThePowerOutage]

The only problem I have with typing is that some OSs and programs switch " and @

It should be like this:
Shift + 2 = "
Shift + ' = @

But tons of programs stuff it up.

 

[ProtoKun7]

The only problem I have with typing is that some OSs and programs switch " and @

It should be like this:
Shift + 2 = "
Shift + ' = @

But tons of programs stuff it up.

Because they're probably set to the US (or non-UK) keyboard, where they're reversed.

 

[raulpica]

Italian QWERTY here. I also know quite a lot of the US keyboard layout. I'd switch to that one, if it weren't for the accented letters which are required from my native tongue

You could just use US-International I mentioned in the OP.

Switching keyboard layouts is also just an Alt+Shift away in Windows once you've selected which ones you want to use.

Awesome. I'll probably switch over to it, after I get a mechanical keyboard (if I ever decide which to buy)

 

[JustChillin1414]

Standard QWERTY for me, never used anything different and probably never will.