Keyboard-Heatmap VS kb-layout-evaluation

https://www.patrick-wied.at/projects/heatmap-keyboard/ Keyboard Heatmap Visualization showing character distribution on different keyboard layouts while you're typing.

Pick your own: https://www.patrick-wied.at/projects/heatmap-keyboard/

Got curious and found this: https://www.patrick-wied.at/projects/heatmap-keyboard/ Piped the US constitution into it and looked at the heat maps. Dvorak and Colemak are pretty comparable with most of the typing taking place on the home row.

I wrote a layout analyzer at some point and that was the reasoning.

And indeed quantitative studies tend to show that Colemak can be very good for other languages, for instance French: https://github.com/bclnr/kb-layout-evaluation (although you need to modify it slightly to add accented characters to reasonable spots). Interestingly enough, French variant of Qwerty (Azerty) is much worse than Colemak or anything.

A while ago I coded a little comparison between layouts to help me with that decision, you might find it useful: https://github.com/bclnr/kb-layout-evaluation

Have a look at that maybe. There's a table with the numbers at the end. You'll see that DH scores better than Colemak in this ranking method, but the difference is really quite small compared to the gain from Qwerty.

These scoring systems already exist. Here's the first one I found: https://github.com/bclnr/kb-layout-evaluation

Or in this evaluator: https://github.com/bclnr/kb-layout-evaluation

Thank you, but I already read a comparison of a whole lot of layouts, and Colemak-DHm seems to be the best layout for those who come from QWERTY