QWERTY-Flip
27th October 2025
The better keyboard layout your fingers already know.
I would dearly love to learn a more efficient way of typing. The Dvorak and Colemak keyboards are very attractive, but the problem is that one doesn’t type consciously but rather reflexively–kinesthetic or muscle memory is the key. Once you train your fingers on a system, you literally don’t have to think about it, but ‘let your fingers do the typing’. Re-training my fingers to that degree of virtuosity would mean losing my facility with an ordinary QWERTY keyboard; that’s fine if all I do is work with my new keyboard layout, but I’m screwed if I have to go back to using the keyboard layout that everybody else uses.
I’m going to try this new method and see how it works.