Keyboard Layouts

Pick the layout that matches your physical keyboard. Key detection always uses the physical key you press, so every layout works on any keyboard — the layout only changes what is printed on the virtual keycaps and which extra keys are drawn.

Latin script

Cyrillic & Greek

Middle East

Asia

Layout and language are two different things

The language of this page and the layout of your keyboard are independent. A German speaker may well be typing on a US board, and most Thai keyboards carry both Thai and Latin legends. That is why every page of key-test.com lets you pick any layout from the “Layout” menu above the virtual keyboard, and why the pages listed here exist: each one is a tester whose keycaps match one physical layout, with a summary of how that layout differs from US QWERTY.

How the tester handles layouts

Key detection always uses the physical key your keyboard sends (the browser’s event.code), never the character your operating system produces. Press the key to the right of L and it lights up whether your system calls it ;, ö, ж or ว. Switching layouts only changes what is printed on the virtual keycaps and, for ISO, JIS and ABNT2 boards, which extra keys are drawn. Windows and Mac variants are a separate switch, so any combination works.

Not sure which layout you have?

Look at three keys: the one to the right of P, the one to the left of Z, and the shape of Enter. A tall, two-row Enter with an extra key next to the left Shift is an ISO board (most of Europe). A wide, single-row Enter is ANSI (Americas and Asia). A narrow Backspace with a ¥ key beside it is JIS. If you start typing on the tester and the characters do not match the keycaps, it will offer to switch for you.