deskthority

derp

£39 ! I would pay that to not have to use it

if it was a decent layout like qwerty or dovork i guess it would be passable

Aw, no colour version?



I first heard of this in 2005. (Everyone who writes about it ends up spending most their time talking about Qwerty vs. Dvorak. The alternative layout review's curse!) And since the official website is currently blank (good sign!) I went to the Wayback Machine and saw they were only really updating between 2005 and 2007. Guess the Keyboard Co. still has 6 left after all these years!

Here's the New Standard Keyboard's homepage back in all its glory:

http://web.archive.org/web/200707300326 ... oards.com/

LOL. I did a quick analysis on Patorjk, with Dutch text... Results: The New Standard Keyboard scores worse than Qwerty. Yet, it can be even worse - pick Carpalx "worst layout" "Hate your coworkers? Switch them to TNWMLC layout. " as carpalx says... Here are the scores (more is better):

Programmer Dvorak 66.96
Colemak 65.70
QWERTY 50.18
New Standard Keyboard 44.08
TNWMLC (Worst CarpalX layout) 26.29

For the record, here are some of the best layouts for that same text:
Samedi (my own layout) 70.07
MTGAP 68.83
Balance Twelve 68.81
Workman 64.07
Minimak 8-key 61.59