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  • Standard US Dvorak, but with the modification of using Caps Lock as Compose key so that I can type øæåØÆÅ when I need to.

    I made the switch in 2011, but I never bought into the typing-speed claim. Typing speed be damned, it’s just so much more comfortable this way.

    Background:
    I grew up with scandinavian keyboard layout in the 90s, but then two things happened almost at the same time:

    • I fucked up my msdos config, resulting in me having to use the default US layout
    • I became interested in coding.
      It didn’t take long to notice how much better US layout is once you need access to {, }, and @, so I became familiar with it. For a long time I swapped bac and forth depending on what I was doing. Then one day around the time when Walter White blew up Gustavo Fring it dawned on me out of the blue that qwerty was somewhat cumbersome, and I would most likely be using a keyboard recreationally and professionally for the rest of my life, so I might as well try to see if I could get used to something more comfortable.

    Downside: Took me a while to get used to it. 6 months or so. A little more than that and my typing speed was up to what it used to be.
    Upsides: More comfortable, Nobody wants to borrow my computer, and shoulder surfers have NFI what my password is based on what I’m typing.