Where's the Y?

Keyboards can be very frustrating, because we humans quickly get comfy with the status quo. So far I've worked for long periods of time with Portuguese, English and Italian keyboards. At the beginning one gets surprised by the innovative places the keyboard-designer (?) decided to store some of the characters. After a while one just adapts to the change. Until now there wasn't anything big, in anyone of those keyboards, that really shocked me. Until now!
Welcome to my wild adventures with the Hungarian and specially with the super evil Czech keyboard!

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The Hungarian keyboard is not too hard to adapt and presents just two main curiosities. (1) The zero key is before the one key and not after the nine key as in all (?) other keyboards. I wonder who decided the zero should come after the nine and not before the one? Don't we learn that zero comes before one? (2) The other aspect that is annoying but more common is the switch between the Z and Y keys. The German keyboard also has the Z in place of the Y.

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The Czech keyboard features the most twisted and original way of distributing the symbols on the keys! This keyboard is bilingual since it can present itself to you in Czech (default) or in English if you select ALT+SHIFT. Lets dive on the details:(1) To use the numbers you have to use the SHIFT or go to the English mode. This is very, very annoying. (2) The Z and the Y are changed, but where with a twist! If you are in the Czech mode the Z is in the center and the Y on the left. If you are in the English mode then the Z is on the left and the Y is in the center. (3) There are some keys that have up to five symbols! They have some serious crowded key situation going on.

To make things more complicated try to type a password when you cannot see if the symbol resulted from the key combination was the desired one! I was having serious problems with this so I asked help from a Czech and surprise... even they have serious problems with their own keyboards!

I never thought I was able to develop a hate relationship with a keyboard.