In Conditionals^x, Idiolect^x

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In my idiolect, the inversion is obligatory. There just may be speakers who accept it without the inversion. Both your sentences are "Second Conditional", so I'm not following the rest of the question very well. "could" neutralizes the difference between "were able to" and "would be able to". ...