dactyl-manuform-keymap VS keyboard_layouts

Regarding chording, you might find inspiration in the chording schemes in Ikcelaks’ Magic Sturdy, the Ardux project, and precondition's "steno-lite" combos.

I spent most of the last 2 years using variants of this but more recently I’ve switch from home row mods to one shot mods and modifier positions similar to Xah. https://github.com/precondition/dactyl-manuform-keymap

Something that made a big difference for me was home row mods. If you can use QMK to embed ctrl, shift, alt, gui into ‘long press’ on the home row it will reduce strain from overusing the pinky finger. After about 1 year of using a variation of this setup I think home row mods reducing pinky finger strain has been the most noticeable improvement although there are many more benefits to switching to something like this dactyl manuform kb. https://github.com/precondition/dactyl-manuform-keymap

How did I arrive to this keymap? It's been a journey. I used home row mods for a few months. This felt great, but with my sloppy typing I routinely got false triggers (despite IGNORE_MOD_TAP_INTERRUPT) and struggled to get my typing speed much above 60 wpm. ​In an attempt to reduce false triggers, I wrote my own (not very good) mod-tap implementation, then realized this is a hard problem. I tried Precondition "steno lite" (see the system of combos in his keymap), and worked through some lessons from Zack Brown's excellent Learn Plover site to learn a little about real steno. I've dabbled with RSTHD and BEAKL15 before going back to Dvorak.

So it's possible to have a magic key for same-finger bigrams (SFBs) as seen in Magic Sturdy.

https://github.com/Ikcelaks/keyboard_layouts/blob/main/magic...

Regarding chording, you might find inspiration in the chording schemes in Ikcelaks’ Magic Sturdy, the Ardux project, and precondition's "steno-lite" combos.

Beyond reversing, Ikcelaks's Magic Sturdy layout is a showcase of what else can be done. It is a layout where the Alternate Repeat key is placed in easy reach on the right index finger. This is the "magic" in Magic Sturdy. This key is configured to remove SFBs and type common n-grams, or potentially do anything else you want: "this key can be fully dynamic based on the last key press and need not be constrained to logically reversing that keypress." I've been trying Magic Sturdy for the past few weeks, and definitely this is a fun idea.

I've lately been experimenting with variations on Oxey's Sturdy, which is an attractive layout for an unusually strong combination of low redirects and high rolls, yet keeping SFBs and pinky use low. A very interesting mod that I'm using now is Ikcelaks's Magic Sturdy. It incorporates the Alternate Repeat Key as a "magic" key whose function is determined adaptively based on the previous key. This is leveraged to get around the highest SFBs and as a shortcut to type common n-grams.