Typing Speed Test, but for Developers

Re:Typing Speed Test, but for Developers by hronecviktor on Saturday July 18, 2026 @06:20PM (#48963027)

Dont even have to remap anything to cause issues. Case in point: we wanted to try mob programming with 2 colleagues.

I was using a 106 with US layout

Colleague #1 was using 60% with russian layout

Colleague #2 was on catalan layout

90% of the time we were just hunting for special chars

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Re:Typing Speed Test, but for Developers by mananaysiempre on Saturday July 18, 2026 @06:43PM (#48963194)

For what it’s worth, a normal (100%) Russian PC keyboard set to a Latin layout turns into a bog-standard QWERTY, with the sole exception of an ISO-style Return (like a British keyboard) but a wide left Shift and two equivalent Alt keys (like a US one). The variation among various keyboards advertised as 60% is wide enough that the Russian part really shouldn’t matter as long as you can ignore the additional labels.

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