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an ortholinear layout?
edit: oh wait, "keyboard layout" apparently means the software layout, not the physical layout π€¦ββοΈ
Ya just keyboard. Did dvorak for about 3 years, got up to 50 with that, now I'm on halmak.
heh, never heard about this
do you feel that it's actually that much more efficient (like their gh page says) than, say dvorak, or it is hard/too early to tell?
it promises much better energy efficiency than dvorak and much better same hand usage statistics, which sounds very cool, but as very often with custom, especially new, layouts, it has very good theoretical performance, but in real life usage it turns out that there's some previously unforeseen flaw deal breaker
the author says they learned the layout themselves, but doesn't say whether he knew any other layout other than qwerty...
Hard to say... I'm fairly sold on it because it uses both real world hand distance measurements, and a genetic algorithm to not only find the best keyboard layout possible, but to score existing ones. Its def more comfortable than dvorak or qwerty, but I also haven't tried colemak-dh or some of the other ones ppl like a lot.
The main thing I've learned is that while these alternate layouts don't make you type faster, they do make things more comfortable.
@dessalines @k_o_t on dvorak when i do super easy texts i can get up to 120 wpm!
but when there is hard writing, i go down to like 60 lol.
less than 1 percent of people can do this
ππ very fast ππ
btw do you measure this typing random words or quotes? this can have a large effect of difficulty fluctuation, at least in my experience...
Very impressive. How do you practice?
Can be physical without being "exotic" (changing languages, for example) :)