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Bepo keyboard layout

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Have you ever wondered where the querty layout we use every day comes from?

The history of bepo

To know the history of bepo, you have to go back in time. What you need to know is that at the base the azerty is nothing other than the French adaptation of the querty, the English keyboard layout. Small anecdote in passing rather heavy with meaning, the first company to have developed the querty was called "Typewriter". During their first presentation they wanted the letters of the company to be placed on the first line. It gives you an idea of ​​the thought given to the choice of keys. Then the first keyboards began to roll off production lines, the first establishments began to sell the first keyboards.

In 1922, a professor of education at the University of Washington began to study the problems of the querty and sought to find the most suitable layout, which limited the movements of the fingers and simplified the writing of text. In 132 the Dvorak was born. A much more ergonomic layout, which even saves an average of 20% typing speed. A few years later, researchers looked at the work of August Dvorak in order to develop his French adaptation under a free license: Le Bépo.

Bépo characteristics

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This provision was designed to facilitate the use of French and computer languages.
Limits tendonitis, more intuitive, more ergonomic writing. Also suitable for writing English. Since the fingers move less, the use of the keyboard also makes a little less noise.

If you want to install the layout, you can go to this page (Take the bépo-azerty layout to keep the shortcuts you use on azerty, otherwise they change). Like all the other layouts, you can install it on your operating system even if you already have an azerty keyboard, you can also switch the layout relatively easily if someone needs to use your pc (shortcut win + space on windows, control + space on mac).

My personal experience

I've been using this keyboard layout for over 3 years now. I will not recommend it to everyone. But if you spend a lot of time writing on your keyboard, chances are, learning this layout is one of the best things you can do. It takes time at first. It took me 6 months to really master it. But the game is worth the effort. I'm very happy to have started relatively early.

Today I can write more than 100 words per minute (I hardly reached 80 on azerty). This is useful when I need to write down information that is given to me orally. This is practical in many situations elsewhere. Writing text uses my brain much less, it has become instinctive. You could even say it's satisfying to write and after a while you get used to doing something else at the same time. We really feel that this provision has been well thought out. It's fast, it's simple, and it's fun. Personally, I am convinced.

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