# An Introduction to Alternative Keyboard Layouts

**URL:** <https://forum.devtalk.com/t/an-introduction-to-alternative-keyboard-layouts/782>\
**Category:** General Learning Resources\
**Tags:** keyboards, article, sticky, keyboard-layouts\
**Created:** [12 June 2020 13:10 UTC](https://forum.devtalk.com/t/an-introduction-to-alternative-keyboard-layouts/782 "2020-06-12T13:10:20Z")\
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**Post date:** [31 October 2020 18:58 UTC](https://forum.devtalk.com/t/an-introduction-to-alternative-keyboard-layouts/782/8 "2020-10-31T18:58:04Z")

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> [@Dusty](#):
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> Workman is marketed more than it is used—it’s unclear if Workman’s creator even uses it currently (I tried Workman but the same-finger bigrams killed it for me)

Thanks Dusty! I think I’m going to try Colemak DHm before Workman then and maybe not bother with Colemak-DH at all (I’ll need to update my votes in this poll: [Poll: Which keyboard layout do you use?](https://forum.devtalk.com/t/poll-which-keyboard-layout-do-you-use/3334) I should add a link to this thread there too as your write-up is the best I’ve seen on layouts!)

My plan when my Moonlander arrives is:

- Try it with qwerty… and hope I hate it 😆 that will force me to switch it to C-DHm.
- Try to learn all the keys as per your article
- Hope I can make the change, haha!

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