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keyboard_layout_optimizer
- Is there a program, or website to calculate an optimal layout given input parameters?
- Is KeyboardEP good?
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Help finding layout for multiple languages
Regarding evaluating, comparing and potentially even optimizing layouts, I would recommend my keyboard layout optimizer.
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Critique my layout! Switching from Dvorak to an auto-generated layout optimized for an otholinear keyboard
I recently got a new ergonomic keyboard, after just typing on my laptop for years. I've used an ErgoDox before, so I went with the Moonlander. While configuring the keyboard and playing with the location of the spacebar, I realized that putting it on the right hand side resulted in a really bad balance between the two hands – it seemed like dvorak was way more right-hand dominant, and that was confirmed when I started looking into it. Went down the rabbit hole of alternate keyboard layouts, and found this repo: https://github.com/dariogoetz/keyboard_layout_optimizer . You can specify the physical configuration of your keyboard and provide a sample text, and it will generate layouts for you, using simulated annealing or a genetic algorithm. Here's a screenshot of the generated layout, along with Dvorak on the bottom:
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Genetically Optimized Keyboard Layout
That's very interesting. I tried a genetic algorithm myself for my optimizer. In the end, I removed the crossover part, but mainly because I did not understand, how exactly it worked :)
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Looking for optimal layout for specific key choices/Customizable layout generator
You can find the code for the evaluator here. Apart from my own set of metrics, it includes the ones used in KLAnext and also the ones from Oxey's layout playground (with some caveats).
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A little help with my overthinking please
Regarding an evaluator with support for multiple layers that can be user-configured, supports "classical" hold layers as well as one-shot layers, and modifiers on "any key" (think home-row mods), I can advertise my own evaluator/optimizer https://github.com/dariogoetz/keyboard_layout_optimizer Saves you some time on a new project ;)
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Autogenned
Identified (amongst others), by tweaked version of https://github.com/dariogoetz/keyboard_layout_optimizer
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Yet another keyboard layout evaluator/optimizer
I want to introduce a pet project of mine that I have been working on in the last year - a keyboard layout evaluator/optimizer: https://github.com/dariogoetz/keyboard_layout_optimizer
- [OC] Which language is easiest to type on the QWERTY keyboard?
kb-layout-evaluation
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How can I learn to adapt a layout?
Maybe you can get Portuguese bigrams frequency and run this: https://github.com/bclnr/kb-layout-evaluation I don’t know how different it is from French or Spanish.
- Keyboard Layout Evaluation
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26 key layout analysis
I wrote a layout analyzer at some point and that was the reasoning.
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Whats the reason y'all went OLKB?
And indeed quantitative studies tend to show that Colemak can be very good for other languages, for instance French: https://github.com/bclnr/kb-layout-evaluation (although you need to modify it slightly to add accented characters to reasonable spots). Interestingly enough, French variant of Qwerty (Azerty) is much worse than Colemak or anything.
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alternative layouts like dvorak?
A while ago I coded a little comparison between layouts to help me with that decision, you might find it useful: https://github.com/bclnr/kb-layout-evaluation
- Colemak vs Colemak-DH
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How bad is QWERTY, really? A review of the literature, such as it is
> Some forward-thinking people have set about evaluating key layouts objectively on metrics like these.
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> What If You’re Bilingual?
On that topic some might be interested in this little analysis:
- Whats the deal with Colemak and Ergo keebs?
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[OC] Which language is easiest to type on the QWERTY keyboard?
These scoring systems already exist. Here's the first one I found: https://github.com/bclnr/kb-layout-evaluation
- Guide d'achat claviers mécaniques
What are some alternatives?
Keyboard-Heatmap - Realtime Keyboard Heatmap showing the character distribution of texts - made with heatmap.js
awesome-split-keyboards - A collection of ergonomic split keyboards ⌨
argmin - Numerical optimization in pure Rust
dactyl-manuform
kbct - Keyboard keycode mapping utility for Linux supporting layered configuration
APT
programmer-colemak - Keyboard layout for programmers, based on Colemak
layout - An article about my layout and releases for its installation.
kinesis-advantage-2 - Keyboard layouts and macros for the Kinesis Advantage 2 keyboard.
oxeylyzer
BigBagKbdTrixPKL - "DreymaR's Big Bag of Keyboard Tricks" for Windows with EPKL