Learning A New Keyboard Layout : Workman
The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog.
Introduction
I was thinking for a long time about changing my keyboard layout I realized that it will take a significant amount of time to get used to it. So choosing the correct one for my usage was key.
Back-story
During high-school, I was going back and forth between QWERTY and AZERTY, due to the fact that every keyboards of my school were QWERTY and I've been taught computers in France so the layout was AZERTY... At 16, I got a surgery for a rupture of the flexor tendons of my index finger. So finding a way to avoid typing stress pain was always in my mind. I did search for convenient keyboard layouts, moving from staggered to matrix and ergonomic keyboards, there was always something that were creating stress and pain to my tendons. I kept the previous QWERTY layout for years until now though. I've ended up choosing workman as the new layout but this choice results from trials and errors that I'll explain in the following section.
Reflection
This post is the first time I'm using the workman layout as a full commitment, and I must say, I still struggle with it, usual thing that happened before when I tried Colemak. But I think it will be beneficial in the long run, as it is designed to reduce finger movement. Even though my typing speed as decreased, I can feel this the typing became less painful for my tendons. Workman is specifically optimized for typing English and code, though I am French, I still am able to type accents using Linux's compose key. I'll see how it goes in the future.