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Rommana
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APT (V1?) vs Engram
u/AlSaMoMo has an amazing Rommana (a project with u/rafaelromao?), with a slick Hands Down Neu mod. I'm working on a similar board, which will have a mod of Hands Down Vibranium, which already has even further reduced center column usage.
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Any ergo keyboards with no pinky keys?
I use boards with 30 to 36 keys, but only 28 are used most of the time, and each pinkie is responsible for a single key. I think it can't get any better than that for pinkies. Here are some pictures of my smaller board, a Rommana.
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Hotswapable Handwired Rommana
A Rommana built using 3D printed solderless hotswap sockets, twisted wire connections and preasure monted MCU. It is obviously not that stable, but it works.
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FauxBerry: Handwired Hotswap RP2040 in a FFKB case.
My next one will be a modified Rommana. But it will take some weeks to see the light.
Canary
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Confused on which finger to use for which key on Canary
https://github.com/Apsu/Canary I don't understand the sections on row stagger and angle mod. Please could someone explain in simple terms where to rest my fingers and which finger to use for each key. Thank you so much.
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2 questions that are unrelated to each other
Keyboard layouts that are worth checking out are Canary, Graphite and Semimak. From what I understand they have all been made in the last two years. I'm biased in favor of Canary as it's very similar to Colemak which made the switch easy for me and I find it really comfortable, but the only thing that really matters is your personal experience when actually typing on the layout, not all the statistics that some people obsess over endlessly.
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How are the trigram stats for Canary calculated?
At https://github.com/Apsu/Canary, it's stated that Canary has 55% of all trigrams as rolls.
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Colemak adapted for french (EU bigram)
Try Canary layout https://github.com/Apsu/Canary It is very similar to Colemak DH and having E and U at different fingers. But, E and O is now at the same finger, isn’t that an issue for French typing?
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Well-known optimized layouts
Romak also has some very nice attributes, as do poqtea and uciea. I also find Canary to have a lot of merit.
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APT (V1?) vs Engram
My current layout, Canary, wouldn't be a great fit for this board, as with the reduction of six keys from a 34-key layout, six letters would be need to be under either a combo or layer, which I'm not too comfortable with.
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Home-row mods - will I get used to it?
I use hrm with canary layout, which puts the most used keys on the home row, so that means that I tap on the hrm keys the most. And I have pretty much 0 mistakes.
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I type 120wpm qwerty... can colemak offer a significant improvement? (and will I lose my qwerty ability if I switch?)
The homepages for Semimak JQ and Sturdy include thoughts by their respective creators on the layouts' strengths and weaknesses, though surely with a little bias =) The Canary homepage has detailed description of its Colemak-inspired design.
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Where to put 'arrow' keys (hjkl) on Canary keyboard layout?
I use Canary ortho https://github.com/Apsu/Canary
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Vim + 360 Advantage + new layout?
Quick note about ortho vs column stagger vs row stagger when it comes to layouts: they generally don't make a difference, though sometimes you still want to make a change. This is most often with regards to upper + lower inner index vs howerow inner index, like on Canary (note the difference between the indexes of the ortho and the regular variant).
What are some alternatives?
engram - Arno's Engram v2.0 ("Engram") layout is an optimized key layout for touch typing in English based on ergonomic considerations, with a protocol and software for creating new, optimized key layouts in other languages.
graphite-layout - Graphite keyboard layout
APT
antithesis-layout - QWERTY antithesis keyboard layout
picachoc36 - Keyboard with low-profile Choc switches
zmk-config-corne-view
miryoku - Miryoku is an ergonomic, minimal, orthogonal, and universal keyboard layout.
oxeylyzer
keyboards - A split keyboard layout, optimized for Portuguese, English, working with numbers and software programming with VIM plugins.
qmk_firmware - keyboard controller firmware for Atmel AVR USB family
miryoku_qmk - Miryoku is an ergonomic, minimal, orthogonal, and universal keyboard layout. Miryoku QMK is the Miryoku implementation for QMK.