Every keyboard layout, explained honestly

The default layout almost everyone starts on: the baseline every other layout is measured against.

US QWERTY's British sibling: same letters, £ instead of #, and an extra ISO key for \|.

France's national layout: A/Q and Z/W swapped, numbers behind Shift, and accents living on the number row.

The German-speaking world's layout: Z and Y swap, and ä ö ü ß get keys of their own.

Spain's layout: Ñ gets a dedicated key, and áéíóú stay one dead-key tap away.

A 2006 QWERTY alternative that keeps Ctrl+Z/X/C/V in place while moving the rest onto stronger fingers.

A 2014 community refinement of Colemak that pulls D and H down into the easier-to-reach bottom-row inner columns.

Patented in 1936 to put the most common English letters on the home row under your strongest fingers.

A 2010 layout that weighs sideways finger movement as heavily as row travel: not just 'how far,' but 'how awkwardly.'

A 2022 algorithmically-generated, hand-tuned layout built for high rolls and low same-finger travel, with programmer-friendly punctuation.

The standard Cyrillic layout used across Russia and much of the former USSR: Ё lives on Backquote, Б/Ю on Comma/Period.