Arensito VS Colemak Mod-DH

Arensito

Designed by a programmer, for programming. Named for its home position letters. Also known as Hallingstad's layout, for its inventor.

Colemak Mod-DH

Colemak Mod-DH is a minor modification to the Colemak alternative keyboard layout, moving the heavily-used 'D' & 'H' keys to the bottom row assignments for both index fingers.

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Arensito

Website: pvv.org
Categories: #Video Presentation #Office & Productivity #Keyboards #Text Editors

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Colemak Mod-DH

Website: colemakmods.github.io
Categories: #Office & Productivity #Video Presentation #Keyboards #Tool

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Category Popularity

0-100% (relative to Arensito and Colemak Mod-DH)

Colemak Mod-DH

Video Presentation

36 36%

Video Presentation

64% 64

Office & Productivity

42 42%

Office & Productivity

58% 58

Keyboards

30 30%

Keyboards

70% 70

Tool

100 100%

Tool

0% 0

User comments

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Social recommendations and mentions

Based on our record, Colemak Mod-DH seems to be more popular. It has been mentiond 43 times since March 2021. We are tracking product recommendations and mentions on various public social media platforms and blogs. They can help you identify which product is more popular and what people think of it.

Arensito mentions (0)

We have not tracked any mentions of Arensito yet. Tracking of Arensito recommendations started around Mar 2021.

Colemak Mod-DH mentions (43)

Workman Layout for Vim
Last year during a couple month break I had between jobs I decided I would learn a new keyboard layout as it was something I always wanted to do, but never wanted to commit to the learning process while I still needed to be proficient at typing. I chose to learn Colemak-DH [0]. Before learning I was around a 75-80 WPM Qwerty touch typist. I went all in and did a lot of heavy practice. It took me around a week to... - Source: Hacker News / 24 days ago
Suggest a layout for 5 column and 3 row split keyboard
I’ve learned a lot from Seniply and Miryoku, both designed to take advantage of small keyboards. They both default to Colemak-DH, which is good. Source: 11 months ago
Placement of letters on the index finger: lateral stretch vs. DSFBs
u/stevep99’s Colemak-DH mod is built with just this observation, and though many are fine with the vanilla Colemak, I think DH/m is a smart mod. It is a common concern, shared by the BEAKL layouts (Xay Voong and u/iandoug) and others. My first letter-on-thumb foray was with RSTHD, which I still think is brilliant, but even better with D<->P swapped, for this reason. Source: 12 months ago
True and related.
QWERTY layout? In 2023? For job that requires a lot of typing? Colemak Mod-DH. Source: almost 1 year ago
Layout suggestions to someone who is not good at any layout yet.
In comparison, the layout is a relatively minor effect, but the choice of layout can reduce finger travel and awkward finger motions, which is good. Colemak DH is a solid and popular choice. See also A guide to alt keyboard layouts. Source: about 1 year ago