beakl15p VS ULKL

BEAKL is actually an acronym for Balanced Effortless Advanced Keyboard Layout. Being yet another attempt to find the most efficient and ergonomic keyboard layout, the development of this experimental layout emphasises the use of our stronger fingers (index, middle and ring finger) to lead the typing rhythm in order to achieve an overall effortless typing experience. The reason for this is that they are faster, more versatile, and less prone to fatigue (exposed through Beakl's foundational effort grid), which allows us typists to achieve high speeds with less effort when compared to layouts that disregard this point.

How is it easy to press direction with pinky and moving your finger to middle column? Link to research about effociency and comfort of typing.

You can read more about the history and theory here (https://deskthority.net/wiki/BEAKL) or on their main website.

For English text/prose, I think there might be better layouts such as [a Hands Down variant](alanreiser.com/handsdown/), BEAKL variants, etc., etc.

For more detail about the layout theory and prior revisions, visit: https://deskthority.net/wiki/BEAKL

It tries to do a lot of things, most notably finger use and finger strength. You can read more about it in these 2 link if you're interested. https://deskthority.net/wiki/BEAKL https://ieants.cc/beakl/index.php#beakl

There are many options, some of Carpalx layouts, Beakl, Engram, Halmak and HIEAMTSRN all have vowels on one side, but otherwise have very little in common and kind of take 5 different approaches to layout optimization.

Interesting. Do you have a KLA (json) profile I could download to test against the likes of BEAKL-15 etc. Other than going for a very cryptic layout like "X1 Ergolinear" (that differentiate between lower case and upper case letter layout - making it very hard to learn), I could not find layout that beats BEAKL-15 on English and programming text. And when I say text, I mean a lot of variety - not just one set of text. I took the avg wins of a lot of text. I also use BEAKL-15 with my Ergodox keyboard layout in KLA.

A layout family, see this: https://deskthority.net/wiki/BEAKL#BEAKL_15

The main Dvorak layout has been adapted for other languages: there are German, Spanish, Nordic and other variants with accents and perhaps some letter swap. Anecdotally, some people seem okay with that. Notably, this repo has English, Czech and other locales for Dvorak and according to the author, it's sufficient based on running the numbers for hand alternation and such metrics.

There are at least three alternatives off the top of my head: CShack, UCW (the website is dead, but the layout is included in Linux distros) or some international layout such as EurKEY (although it lacks combined letters with caron), and then customized versions of Dvorak or Colemak... and yes, I know a couple of people that use Compose.

I'm not convinced that it matters in practice. If anything, I'd focus on convenient access to special symbols (like ULKL).