pinkyache said: I think you can tuck that Qwerty pre-amble somewhere else. Improve upon the design of Qwerty. Or something to do with home row typing.
Unfortunately, I don't think so. There's enough misinformation going around that a not-uncommon reaction might be "hah, but these layouts are no better than QWERTY!" Thus, I thought I should immediately list some ways in which (if the reader even takes a moment to look) QWERTY is obviously flawed.
Shortcuts section (very raw):
Colemak preserves most of QWERTY's left-side Ctrl- shortcuts, and actually improves on several others.
Green shortcuts are preserved on their QWERTY positions.
Blue shortcuts are improved from their QWERTY positions.
Ctrl-S is minutely worsened (though placed on a stronger finger). Ctrl-D and E are significantly worsened.
Though Colemak uses Backspace in the QWERTY Caps Lock position by default, using Ctrl is also possible for shortcut-intensive users.
Destructive shortcuts (e.g. Ctrl-Q, Ctrl-W, Ctrl-X) tend to be preserved.
Emacs-users may find C-r/C-s (for incremental reverse/forward search) amazing.
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