Hey folks,
In 2018 i have written more code then in all the years before combined.
Now I want to become more efficient and decided to start learning to type with 10 fingers.
A bit of background:
I'm German, living in Norway. Both, the German and Norwegian language, have special characters like ä, ö, ü, å, æ and ø. For that reason I have always used a German keyboard, as it makes it easy typing text in both German and Norwegian.
For coding though, I think the German layout isn't optimal. If I compare it to US ASCII and English ISO layout, especially all those brackets, look more easier to reach (the Norwegian layout is even worth imo, so that's not an option either). Here's a picture of German keyboard layout just for reference:
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipe...llgrau.svg/842px-Tastatur_DE_hellgrau.svg.png
As I have always edited keymaps to combine German and Norwegian special characters into a single keymap, I came up with, that I could put all the characters on the regular a, o, u and e on an English keyboard. Some of them are already in place when using UTF-8 anyway, so that won't be stopping me.
In addition, there seem to be a lot more (and much better) tutorials on youtube and even software in the FreeBSD ports.
I wonder what the professional coders think? Will it support my efficiency to learn 10 finger on an English layout?
I'm definitively willing to drop 20 years of typing experience, if it helps me getting better in the long run. It will be a learning process either way.
Please share your opinions, thank you!
In 2018 i have written more code then in all the years before combined.
Now I want to become more efficient and decided to start learning to type with 10 fingers.
A bit of background:
I'm German, living in Norway. Both, the German and Norwegian language, have special characters like ä, ö, ü, å, æ and ø. For that reason I have always used a German keyboard, as it makes it easy typing text in both German and Norwegian.
For coding though, I think the German layout isn't optimal. If I compare it to US ASCII and English ISO layout, especially all those brackets, look more easier to reach (the Norwegian layout is even worth imo, so that's not an option either). Here's a picture of German keyboard layout just for reference:
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipe...llgrau.svg/842px-Tastatur_DE_hellgrau.svg.png
As I have always edited keymaps to combine German and Norwegian special characters into a single keymap, I came up with, that I could put all the characters on the regular a, o, u and e on an English keyboard. Some of them are already in place when using UTF-8 anyway, so that won't be stopping me.
In addition, there seem to be a lot more (and much better) tutorials on youtube and even software in the FreeBSD ports.
I wonder what the professional coders think? Will it support my efficiency to learn 10 finger on an English layout?
I'm definitively willing to drop 20 years of typing experience, if it helps me getting better in the long run. It will be a learning process either way.
Please share your opinions, thank you!