British/Irish English keyboard layout: Shift mirrored 'N', 'M', etc keys one left, to match muscle memory for touch typists

[louiechristie]

i.e.

• holding space and 'V' should result in an an 'N'
• holding space and 'C' should result in an 'M'

That way for two handed touch typists the learning curve is easy because you just do the same movement with a different hand.

This is how XKCD's Mirrorboard does it: https://blog.xkcd.com/2007/08/14/mirrorboard-a-one-handed-keyboard-layout-for-the-lazy/

Considerations:

• This does mean '?' and '/' would need to be mapped to somewhere else - not sure where Mirrorboard puts them.
• Capital 'N' is still a pain in the hand until sticky keys are implemented

[louiechristie]

Update 2022-02-18:

I think the issue was because I use a British/Irish English keyboard.

I ended up making a British and Irish English one handed keyboard using Karibina Elements.

https://github.com/louiechristie/mirrorboard-mac-british-irish

[ohare93]

That did the trick, thanks mate. Your Karabiner Elements json file works great, even on a MacBook with a Danish keyboard! (typed all with the left hand 😉 )