halmak VS Keyboard-HIEAMTSRN-Optimized

Since you asked in the video about ideal keymapping, I thought I'd throw my preferred layout, Halmak, out there: check it out: https://github.com/MadRabbit/halmak. it takes into account key frequency as well as key combination frequency. I don't know if it the best layout theoretically possible but,well, I think it's neat

And now I'm actually quite interested in trying out the HALMAK layout ... https://github.com/MadRabbit/halmak ... a very recent AI optimized configuration that's apparently 134% more efficient than QUERTY.

Considered both of those plus some others, but decided that if I was going to dive in with an alternate layout I was going to go all in, so I'm stepping straight to Halmak, though obviously there's some slight adjustments to fit it down to 42 keys. Assuming that goes well, it's what I'll be putting on my lumberjacks and eventually sofle when those get built. All my staggered boards will be staying qwerty though so I have something to game on without changing every keybinding, and so that I don't render myself incapable of using other people's boards.

An AI designed keyboard layout\ (77 comments)

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.