u/Phrygiaddicted

after getting a corne for the sake of my wrists and back, and feeling like an illiterate child mashing keys in a fighting game for quite some time, a thought occured to me, to look at my standard row-staggered keyboard and look where the keys actually were in relation to the column staggered one.

the default layout of a corne and almost all ortho/colstag boards i see start the first column with QAZ and yet, on a normal keyboard Z sits below W and A is betwen QW and Z. this is displayed easily on other ros, such as V being directly below T, not R.

i noticed most of my typing errors were coming from the bottom side of the keyboard especially in transitions from the top to bottom of the board through a typing training app.

after shifting the bottom row along aso that the columns were now QA\ WSZ and B fell onto the right side of the keyboard my typing improved significantly and immediately, presumably because the keys were far closer to where the rowstagger muscle memory expects them to be within reason.

did take a small amount of getting used to, as B is notably typed with both fingers situationally most of the time, but i think the superior alignment of the top and bottom rows of columns with a colstag vs rowsag is worth putting B on the right.

just a thought, if you are struggling to type on such a cornish keyboard after switching from a normal row stagger. feels like da wae.