Alex Bass
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Alex Bass

Learning An Alternative Keyboard Layout (Canary & Colemak & Dvorak)

I use Canary as my default keyboard layout (alternative to QWERTY/Dvorak/Colemak)

History (Time & WPM)

20+ years of QWERTY (120WPM)

↳ 1 Month of Dvorak (50WPM)

↳ 1 Week of Colemak (30WPM)

↳ 1 Month of Colemak-DH (80WPM)

↳ 1 Month of Canary (80WPM)

(MonkeyType Test: 60 Second English 200)

Current Stats (Feb 2nd 2023—2.5 Months In):

10 Word Test on MonkeyType:

30 Second Test on MonkeyType:

Canary Keyboard Layout

Here is the default layout as-designed to be used with Angle Mod on a Row Stagger (standard) keyboard:

w l y p k z x o u ; [ ] \
 c r s t b f n e i a '
  j v d g q m h / , .

And here is a version that can be used on Ortho keyboards (you probably aren't using this type of keyboard):

w l y p b z f o u '
c r s t g m n e i a
q j v d k x h / , .

Guide For Setting It Up

github.com/abass/karabiner-canary

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