beakl15p VS qmk_firmware

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

I agree that reduced finger movement is a crucial step in achieving typing efficiency. This is nicely solved by mod tap modifiers in QMK/ZMK[1] where key acts as a char when tapped and as a layer while pressed.

[1]: https://github.com/qmk/qmk_firmware/blob/master/docs/mod_tap...

Separate wireless controller, see the glue code at [0]

[0]: https://github.com/qmk/qmk_firmware/compare/master...nuphy-s...

If you have a keyboard that runs QMK firmware[0] with the VIA[1] feature enabled[2], then there is a convenient testing app available from the same place you customize your keys [3].

[0] https://qmk.fm/

I made a layout that I'm happy with. Spanish is my native language, so it has characters like the accents and 'ñ', but it's meant to be used for programming as well. Visual Studio uses a lot of Ctrl and Ctrl + Shift shortcuts, so I left them in the same place as the default Corne layout so I can press them both with my pinkie finger. Perhaps some of the ideas are useful to you.

Also, it would be possible to do this for the RP2040. However, it needs some work to get working. but for example: https://github.com/qmk/qmk_firmware/pull/20999

Ok, it's an ST7735, not too different from the ST7789. You should be able to get running by looking at their files in the QMK repo and going from there. You should also check their resources page.

UPDATE: after fluffing around a little bit, I have manged to fix this code: https://github.com/qmk/qmk_firmware/blob/master/keyboards/lily58/keymaps/bongocat_wpm_responsive/keymap.c and flash it successfully - it seems not to be working correctly as the cat is only hanging there and does not respond to the wmp count. If anybody spots anything wrong in the code please let me know!(C is not my language but I am a programmer, I am gonna get at it again over the weekend if I have time left)