Keyboard layouts
CosmicKeys ships 34 physical keyboard models for Mac and Windows: ANSI and ISO standards, QWERTY, QWERTZ, AZERTY and Dvorak letter arrangements, and standalone numeric keypads. Each page below is generated from the same layout data the typing lessons use, so the key map you see is the key map the lessons animate.
Mac keyboards
Windows keyboards
Universal numeric keypads
How to read a keyboard layout
A keyboard layout has two independent parts. The physical standard (ANSI or ISO) decides the shape of the Enter key, the width of the left Shift and how many keys the main block has. The letter arrangement (QWERTY, QWERTZ, AZERTY, Dvorak) decides which character each key produces.
ANSI keyboards, used in the United States and most of Asia-Pacific, have a wide horizontal Enter key and a wide left Shift. ISO keyboards, used across Europe and the UK, have a tall L-shaped Enter, a narrower left Shift and one extra key between Shift and Z (or Y on QWERTZ).
QWERTZ swaps Y and Z and adds umlaut keys on the right of the home row. AZERTY swaps A/Q and Z/W and puts M next to L. Dvorak keeps the physical ANSI board but rearranges the letters so the vowels sit under the left hand on the home row and the most frequent consonants under the right.
Numeric keypads differ in one key: the decimal separator. Keypads sold in the US, UK and Asia-Pacific print a dot; keypads sold in continental Europe and South America print a comma.
Practice on your own keyboard
Pick your model in CosmicKeys and every lesson, finger guide and speed test uses that exact key map.