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Maltron Letter Layout VS Colemak

Compare Maltron Letter Layout VS Colemak and see what are their differences

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Maltron Letter Layout logo Maltron Letter Layout

Also known as "Malt" for short.

Colemak logo Colemak

Colemak is a modern keyboard touch typing layout designed to be a practical improvement on QWERTY and Dvorak layouts.
  • Maltron Letter Layout Landing page
    Landing page //
    2020-01-17
  • Colemak Landing page
    Landing page //
    2022-03-26

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Switching To Colemak: My Experiences And FAQ

More videos:

  • Review - 5 Years of Colemak - Good choice? My experience
  • Review - Colemak/Custom Keyboard Layout – Is It Worth It?

Category Popularity

0-100% (relative to Maltron Letter Layout and Colemak)

Maltron Letter Layout

Colemak

Video Presentation
36 36%
Video Presentation
64% 64
Keyboards
36 36%
Keyboards
64% 64
Office & Productivity
41 41%
Office & Productivity
59% 59
Tool
100 100%
Tool
0% 0

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Social recommendations and mentions

Based on our record, Colemak seems to be more popular. It has been mentiond 36 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.

Maltron Letter Layout mentions (0)

We have not tracked any mentions of Maltron Letter Layout yet. Tracking of Maltron Letter Layout recommendations started around Mar 2021.

Colemak mentions (36)

  • Why the Dvorak keyboard didn't take over the world (2014) [video]
    Anecdotally, I gave Dvorak a try and became somewhat proficient, but ultimately reverted back to QWERTY for one reason: keyboard shortcuts! Control-C|V|Z are all transformed into either two-handed shortcuts or right-handed shortcuts. In either case, I can't copy/paste while selecting text with the mouse (since I'm right-handed). I now use Colemak (https://colemak.com/) which doesn't have this issue and I'm quite... - Source: Hacker News / 11 months ago
  • Not all keyboard layouts are born equal...
    Like, well, the original US layout, or Colemak. Suddenly, all those "hard-to-type" special characters and shortcuts start to make sense... Source: 12 months ago
  • Anyone have experience with Neovim and Colemak or Devorak keyboard layout?
    I started out using colemak.vim from the https://colemak.com webpage. Rather quickly I found that there were some things that I didn't like about the configuration, so I started modifying it. Eventually I had enough changes that I uploaded a fork of the configuration:. Source: about 1 year ago
  • Anyone have experience with Neovim and Colemak or Devorak keyboard layout?
    For reference, here's the keyboard layout: https://colemak.com/. Source: about 1 year ago
  • Change the alphabet so it matches the order on the QWERTY keyboard. Everything that is currently organized in alphabetical order must be changed.
    Lets change all new keyboards to the Colemak layout, and change the order of the Alphabet to match. Source: about 1 year ago
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What are some alternatives?

When comparing Maltron Letter Layout and Colemak, you can also consider the following products

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.

Carpalx QGMLWY - A Carpalx variant with V fixed in its QWERTY position.

Programmer Dvorak - Almost Dvorak, optimized for programming tasks. This layout retains the classic Dvorak number order.

NeO - NeO is a powerful outliner built for OS X.

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

Carpalx QGMLWB - Carpalx is a modifiable keyboard layout system that is based on applying a quantitative model of typing effort. QGMLWB is the fully optimized layout for letters.

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