Your Path to Keyboard Heaven
Discover tips, layouts, and optimization strategies that make typing feel natural, comfortable, and even fun.
This website is dedicated to helping you find your personal best typing experience — whether you use QWERTY, a local language layout, or an alternative keyboard layout.
Below, you’ll find seven steps that can guide you toward your own version of keyboard heaven, starting with small, high‑impact tweaks and gradually moving toward deeper customization. Feel free to skip or mix steps as you like — every improvement counts.
The menu at the top leads to detailed guides and extended information that go beyond the basic seven optimization steps. Explore those topics after familiarizing yourself with the seven suggested steps below for the best overview.
The Seven Steps to Keyboard Heaven
At the moment the links below point to three articles published on kbd.news. In the future the information will be merged and extended on this website.
| Step 1 | Navigation & Shortcut layer | May the force be with you |
| Step 2 | Symbol layer | Easy Access for your most used symbols ?!$_é… |
| Step 3 | Bottom or Home Row Mods | Modifier keys at your finger tips |
| Step 4 | Shift → easy to reach | Put Shift to a comfortable key position |
| Step 5 | Symbol layer – Part 2 | Even more space for symbols |
| Step 6 | One-shot layer keys | Getting rid of held-key combos for text input |
| Step 7 | Alternative keyboard layout | Select, adapt or create your custom keyboard layout |
| Bonus | Hardware | Keyboard selection guide |