I can't say it has any particular bearing on the usage of emacs, but within the last year or so I started using a "ortholinear" keyboard (an ergodox-ez) and fou

I can't say it has any particular bearing on the usage of emacs, but within the last year or so I started using a "ortholinear" keyboard (an ergodox-ez) and found that qwerty was uncomfortable on that with how lousy my typing form is. I tried a couple different layouts and landed on something called "middlemak"[1]. Of all the ones I tried, it really felt like the one with the least overall finger travel and awkward things to type in my day to day software development work (though there are still some odd letter combinations courtesy of english borrowing from everyone), and it's not a massive change from qwerty so a lot of muscle memory actually could carry over. Workman and Colemak both had some awkward motions or finger strains that just didn't work for me. That's been both a good and a bad in that on the one hand, I didn't have to relearn every key, but on the other, especially because I swap between middlemak on the external keyboard and qwerty on the built-ins I'm sometimes mistyping because the qwerty key is one key over from where the middlemak version is. But at least for how my brain works, having that familiarity made sticking with the learning curve a lot easier. I also can't speak for how it feels on a "normal" staggered keyboard since I only use it on the ergodox but I don't have a reason to think it would feel worse. If it helps, this is the keymap I use on the ergodox[2]. [1]: https://www.reddit.com/r/Middlemak/ https://www.reddit.com/r/Middlemak/ [2]: https://configure.zsa.io/ergodox-ez-st/layouts/wzKWq/latest/0 https://configure.zsa.io/ergodox-ez-st/layouts/wzKWq/latest/...