US keyboard layout

Cheat Sheet for German keyboards

• US < DE

Alphabet

• Z < Y
• Y < Z

Punctuation

• . < . (period, full stop, dot)
• ! < ! (exclamation mark)
• ? < _ (question mark)
• , < , (comma)
• : < Ö (colon)
• ; < ö (semicolon)
• - < ß (hyphen, dash, minus)
• / < - (slash)

Quotation

• ' < ä (apostrophe)
• " < Ä (quotation mark)

Brackets

• ( < ) (open round bracket/parenthesis)
• ) < = (close round bracket/parenthesis)
• [ < ü (open square bracket)
• ] < + (close square bracket)
• { < Ü (open curly bracket/brace)
• } < * (close curly bracket/brace)

Symbols

• ~ < ° (tilde, swung dash)
• @ < " (at sign)
• # < § (number sign, hash, hashtag, octothorpe)
• $ < $ (dollar sign)
• % < % (percent sign)
• ^ < & (caret, circumflex)
• & < / (ampersand, and)
• _ < ? (underscore, underbar, low line, low dash)
• = < ´ (equals sign, equality sign)
• + < ` (plus)
• * < ( (asterisk, star)
• ` < ^ (grave, backtick, backquote)
• < < ; (less-than sign)
• > < : (greater-than sign)
• \ < # or < (backslash)
• | < ' or > (pipe, vertical bar)

Sources

• Diagram of ANSI layout: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:ANSI_Keyboard_Layout_Diagram_with_Form_Factor.svg