Alternate keyboard layoutsEdit

On several occasions I’ve toyed with the idea of learning a new keyboard layout — first, out of an interest for speed; and second, out of a desire to reduce wrist pain and the risk of RSI as I grow older — but each time the fear that learning how to be productive in Vim with the new layout (especially with the h/j/k/l keys, which are remembered positionally rather than mnemonically) has held me back.

Below are what appear to be the main rivals.

Dvorak

• Info: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dvorak_Simplified_Keyboard
• Variants:
  • "Programmer Dvorak": http://www.kaufmann.no/roland/dvorak/

Colemak

• Site: http://colemak.com/

Workman

• Site: http://www.workmanlayout.com/

Norman

• Site: https://normanlayout.info/

Minimak

• Site: http://www.minimak.org/

Asset

• Site: http://millikeys.sourceforge.net/asset/

See also

• One Hacker News discussion on the topic: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6541167
• Yak, a genetic layout optimizer that I wrote: https://github.com/wincent/yak-layout