Layouts & Languages

  • Klavaro Urdu Typing

    Short answer: Klavaro offers an Urdu keyboard layout and an Urdu interface language, so learners in Pakistan — this site’s fourth-largest audience — and in India can practise Urdu typing inside a structured, free tutor instead of drilling random text alone. Urdu is written right-to-left in a Nastaliq-style script, which makes layout familiarity and steady…

  • QWERTZ Typing Guide

    Short answer: QWERTZ is the standard keyboard layout in Germany, Austria, Switzerland and parts of Central and Eastern Europe, and Klavaro includes it among its built-in layouts. Its signature differences from QWERTY are the swapped Y and Z positions and dedicated keys for the umlauts Ä, Ö and Ü plus ß — exactly the characters…

  • AZERTY Typing Guide

    Short answer: AZERTY is the standard keyboard layout in France and Belgium, and Klavaro includes AZERTY among its built-in layouts, so French-speaking typists can learn touch typing on the layout they actually use — including typing accented characters such as é, è, à and ç directly. This guide, written in English for AZERTY users who…

  • Learn Colemak

    Short answer: Colemak is an alternative keyboard layout released in 2006 by Shai Coleman, designed to be easier to switch to than Dvorak: only 17 keys change position compared with QWERTY, and the common shortcuts for undo, cut, copy and paste — Z, X, C and V — stay exactly where they are. Its gains,…

  • Learn Dvorak

    Short answer: Dvorak is an alternative keyboard layout designed so the most frequent English letters sit on the home row and the hands alternate as you type. Many people switch hoping for greater comfort and less finger travel. Whether it makes you universally faster than QWERTY is debated — there is no conclusive scientific proof…