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My experience has been different. After playing with the Colemak keyboard on-and-off for about a week, It's still growing on me. My fingers move a lot less from
by tremendo 18y ago
My experience has been different. After playing with the Colemak keyboard on-and-off for about a week, It's still growing on me. My fingers move a lot less from the home row, even when switching to Spanish.
Since I also write code, it's clear to me how it isn't that great for certain languages, because it moves the semicolon to a rather inaccessible position. But for languages that do not rely on that character to end statements, it works quite well as other symbols remain in the QWERTY standard position.
Overall I find it a lot easier to learn than I thought it would be.