I want to improve my touch typing skills on Linux. I’m curious:
- What tool or program would you recommend for learning touch typing on Linux?
- For someone whose native language isn’t English, would you recommend learning on their native keyboard layout or switching to the US QWERTY layout for programming purposes?
1·20 hours ago- Can’t help you there as I learned on a manual typewriter years before I saw a computer.
- Editing on Vim/Neovim is really only good on US qwerty layout. It doesn’t matter too much on Emacs unless the layout you chose is missing the symbols for your programming language or you’re using evil mode. I had a hard time on a Latin American layout and switched to a “US international, no dead keys” layout. I can type in Spanish quite easily with this layout, it is Right-Alt pressed with e to get é for example. And I use the same layout for programming. The Latam layout I typed 'e to get é but the dead key single quote meant I had to type quote followed by a space to get a quote while programming. I had to change the physical keyboard to a US layout one to get everything right. Without doing that [ and ctrl-[ were on different keys, for example. It took some searching in the shops to find one but it was very much worth it.