There is no such a thing as the best keybindings configuration

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Every one of us using keyboards for a daily typing in almost every device that we use. Starting from obvious once like phones, tablets, then going through ATMs, ordering panels in restaurants, in government institutions, banks, offices, train stations, ... and finally ending back again to regular personal computers. In my beginnings of the engineering career, when I was discovering what the computer really is, how it works, and learning all those new electronic and digital knowledge. At that time I wasn't wondering about the keyboards. First, no one in my kids' neighborhood (except me) were interested with it, so I discover it on my own, in my free time. Simply by using a lot of different PC/laptops and its keyboards. At the time I didn't realize it, then years goes by, and after all those years, now I think there is no such thing as the best keybindings config. Yeah, controversial, I know, and it's good - but let me explain why I believe this is especially true by giving you few reasons. As you see, keyboard sound simple, but if you use it every single day, for long time, people tend to optimize own processes over the time simply by find the shortcuts and some best practices. In my case, it was the process of typing itself. After years I realized that for some group of people, the keyboard will always be just a keyboard - like my parents, or a lady in the government institution office, or a sales man on gas station - they do not care. For them this is just a thing to type, nothing more. Although if you spend so much time with it, you start realizing a couple of things:

everyone may have different writing or hardware preferences,
everyone may use different keyboards layouts (ISO, ANSI, ABNT, KS, JIS),
even if someone using similar keyboards where they live¹, they may use same keyboard layouts (e.g ISO) but they use different keys-layouts (in Poland , in Germany/Austria , in France )

For example, in USA it's ANSI. In Europe the most universal keyboard layout is ISO, but the keys-layout may differ between countries and even between cities! For example QWERTY in Poland, ↩
If you reading this, you already know I thank you many, many times before, but even now I want to Thank You again and I will never forget! That was one of the best gifts I've ever got from a friend! And until this day I still use it daily - imagine that! ❤️ ↩

There is no such a thing as the best keybindings configuration

First keyboard

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