Hi everyone, I’m planning to learn a different layout when I receive my Model 01. I’ve been doing research on this topic for a while now but there doesn’t seem to be many strong feelings other than QWERTY is not optimal. What I would like to know is what has your experience been with different lay…

[image] merlin: Not only that, but the data is edited, finished prose. It doesn’t measure actual typing, so no consideration is given to things like backspace, tab, enter, or cursor movement, which can figure very frequently in real use. I’m not sure that makes much of a difference. AFAIK, no…

I am using a custom layout, and I think it may be interesting to you because you seem to be from Poland :wink: and I am, too. Here’s the alphanumeric part: [keyboard-layout] (Compared with QWERTY, keys marked in red use different hand, and keys marked in yellow are moved to a different place withi…

[image] tiltowaitt: I’m not sure that makes much of a difference. AFAIK, none of the layouts discussed (save for one Colemak variant, which moves backspace) touches modifiers, etc. Good point, except that this topic is not limited solely to those layouts, since we’re discussing custom layouts…

[image] tiltowaitt: I’m not sure that makes much of a difference. AFAIK, none of the layouts discussed (save for one Colemak variant, which moves backspace) touches modifiers, etc. Indeed, that’s an important point. I started playing with keyboard layouts a long time ago (10 years?) but didn…

[image] AmigoNico: But I decided to create a layout of my own which facilitates typing common character sequences. I need to code it up, but if you are curious you can read about it here: This is a very interesting approach, and I’ll be very curious to see how it develops. It lines up with m…

[image] jan-warchol: I think the best way to judge a layout is to assign scores to ngrams instead of just keys. I guess 3-grams should be enough for good results. Indeed, the carpalx tool which Jesse linked above, analyzes typing effort in terms of 3-grams. However, it uses much different cr…

I am pretty expressly planning to do some remappings of the non-QWERTY keys, that is, i intend to retain the ‘official’ portions of QWERTY, but i anticipate attuning the others (e.g. - ctrl, bksp, cmd, space, alt, and so forth) to my own intentions. Enter is already swapped onto the butterfly key; …

i have tried dvorak, colemak, and now norman. in between i’ve always gone back to qwerty then to the new layout. i didn’t like dvorak for the alternating keys. once i got really comfortable it seemed like i was switching common pairs that i would type really fast. i like colemak but it was starti…

I had already done a bit of research about proper posture and hand placement and followed those guidelines for a few years prior to switching. I only switched to colemak because I could think of nothing else that would allow me to keep using a keyboard without experiencing pain. Colemak was great …

[image] milkypostman: norman is actually my least favorite. i think that it’s so close to qwerty that i make a lot more mistakes. i cannot explain it but i am thinking about switching away to maybe workman or to colemak-dh. I am using Norman as well. I find it very interesting that you state …

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craigdissel (Craig Disselkoen) October 25, 2017, 4:54pm 37

Indeed, the carpalx tool which Jesse linked above, analyzes typing effort in terms of 3-grams. However, it uses much different criteria than AmigoNico does. (AmigoNico - excellent writeup, by the way.)

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