How to suggest a custom keyboard layout for Microsoft for worldwide use?

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How to suggest a custom keyboard layout for Microsoft for worldwide use?

 

I made a good one. Much better than QWERTY. How to share it with humanity and make a worldwide alternative to QWERTY?

 

Let’s think, what the ideal keyboard layout may be… The more frequently used letters are in the middle and under the fingers, and the rare ones are in hard-to-reach places. Marked with bulges for the index fingers are from top important letters. That’s for example how ЙЦУКЕН is organized.

 

However in QWERTY, the letters are arranged in a completely idiotic order that historically developed in the days of typewriters, and in our time its dominance has no reason. A little specifics. The most frequent letters of English: E and T -- in the third row of the left hand, O and I -- in the third row of the right hand, and the letter A is just a little better -- in the second row under the little finger of the left hand. At the same time, VIP places under the index fingers occupy such important letters as G (a very middling) and J (a very rare letter, only Q and Z are more rare). And under the little finger of the right hand is such an important symbol as a semicolon. Maybe the letters in QWERTY are arranged in such a way that some frequent combinations are located next to each other and are typed faster? Nope! In 1936, August Dvorak scientifically substantiated that if the QWERTY letters were mixed and randomly arranged, most often we’ll get a more convenient keyboard layout.

 

Dvorak and Colemak layouts moved more frequently letters to the central raw but didn’t move from sides to the center. When you use a diagonal typing hand position, which seems better for health, it became not convenient again, even top important letter A becomes hard-to-reach.

The world needs more healthy alternatives to QWERTY.

 

The layout I’m suggesting has a better letter order. It is as close to ЙЦУКЕН as possible, so it will additionally benefit Ukrainians, Russians, Mongolians, Tajiks, etc. in many ways: 1) easier switch between layouts, 2) those who learned blind-typing in Russian will automatically know blind-typing in English, no need to learn again, 3) if some country decides to move the language from Cyrillic to Latin, my layout may help a lot.

There should be some algorithms by which new layout standards get into the Windows text input services? It can't be super-difficult, after all, there are already hundreds of them (of variations of QWERTY). So, how to do it?

 

Answer 1

Hello there,

You can share your idea via the feedback hub or the Tech Community Ideas forum.

This is where community members get to share their ideas on ways we can make this community a great place for you to have product discussions, share best practices, and connect with community members. This is only for ideas for the Microsoft Tech Community website, not for other Microsoft products or services.

https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/tech-community-ideas/idb-p/Community-Feedback/status-key/RolledOut

The Feedback Hub app lets you tell Microsoft about any problems you run into while using Windows 11 or Windows 10. You can also send suggestions to help us improve your Windows experience. https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/send-feedback-to-microsoft-with-the-feedback-hub-app-f59187f8-8739-22d6-ba93-f66612949332

Hope this resolves your Query !!

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