keyboards
A split keyboard layout, optimized for Portuguese, English, working with numbers and software programming with VIM plugins. (by rafaelromao)
Canary
Canary keyboard layout (by Apsu)
keyboards | Canary | |
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77 | 19 | |
227 | 189 | |
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9.6 | 3.7 | |
9 days ago | about 1 month ago | |
C | AutoHotkey | |
MIT License | MIT License |
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Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.
keyboards
Posts with mentions or reviews of keyboards.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-07-19.
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Split kb symbol layer for dev/vim user
I have custom alpha layers and extremely optimized symbol layers, combos and other features in my keymap. It is not designed for web development, but it is good for VIM and Java.
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Hands Down variation with only 20 keys
That made me think. If I would adapt Romak for 20 keys, it would be something like this:
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Suggest a layout for 5 column and 3 row split keyboard
But since you are a programmer, I invite you to check the fancy programmer features that I have implemented in my keymap. I still need to rework on the documentation, but you can take some inspiration from there if you decide to design your own.
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Well-known optimized layouts
Romak also has some very nice attributes, as do poqtea and uciea. I also find Canary to have a lot of merit.
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Cheapest way to try Miryoku style layout
There is also the unusual option to handwire a keyboard without soldering, as I did here, but the result might not be so reliable.
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APT (V1?) vs Engram
You can see my layout here.
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Beakl-HC - No more pinky and ring finger pain!
I started my own layout, Romak, using BEAKL as inspiration, with similar objectives, mostly making it more suitable for my home language and reducing the load on pinkies and indexes, concentrating in the middle and ring fingers instead. Another thing I did was to remove the top row key from both the central and pinkie columns. Later I also removed the bottom row key from the pinkies.
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In need for a beginner guide
My first handwired board checks all your requirements, and I have some pictures of the process, but it is not a complete guide. It might help though. And I think the FFKB case can be great for a first handwired project.
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Custom 60% layout I've been using, designed for Canadian programmers. Critiques please!
Really nice work, congrats. My custom layout is designed for both Portuguese and English, and I have some of the same ideas implemented, with similar reasoning. I also have some programming features that remind yours, but I preferred to remap hjkl instead.
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Best way to build hot swap into a handwire?
I've used two different options in my builds. You can see them in the build logs: FFKB and Rommana.
Canary
Posts with mentions or reviews of Canary.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-09-09.
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Confused on which finger to use for which key on Canary
https://github.com/Apsu/Canary I don't understand the sections on row stagger and angle mod. Please could someone explain in simple terms where to rest my fingers and which finger to use for each key. Thank you so much.
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2 questions that are unrelated to each other
Keyboard layouts that are worth checking out are Canary, Graphite and Semimak. From what I understand they have all been made in the last two years. I'm biased in favor of Canary as it's very similar to Colemak which made the switch easy for me and I find it really comfortable, but the only thing that really matters is your personal experience when actually typing on the layout, not all the statistics that some people obsess over endlessly.
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How are the trigram stats for Canary calculated?
At https://github.com/Apsu/Canary, it's stated that Canary has 55% of all trigrams as rolls.
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Colemak adapted for french (EU bigram)
Try Canary layout https://github.com/Apsu/Canary It is very similar to Colemak DH and having E and U at different fingers. But, E and O is now at the same finger, isn’t that an issue for French typing?
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Well-known optimized layouts
Romak also has some very nice attributes, as do poqtea and uciea. I also find Canary to have a lot of merit.
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APT (V1?) vs Engram
My current layout, Canary, wouldn't be a great fit for this board, as with the reduction of six keys from a 34-key layout, six letters would be need to be under either a combo or layer, which I'm not too comfortable with.
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Home-row mods - will I get used to it?
I use hrm with canary layout, which puts the most used keys on the home row, so that means that I tap on the hrm keys the most. And I have pretty much 0 mistakes.
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I type 120wpm qwerty... can colemak offer a significant improvement? (and will I lose my qwerty ability if I switch?)
The homepages for Semimak JQ and Sturdy include thoughts by their respective creators on the layouts' strengths and weaknesses, though surely with a little bias =) The Canary homepage has detailed description of its Colemak-inspired design.
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Where to put 'arrow' keys (hjkl) on Canary keyboard layout?
I use Canary ortho https://github.com/Apsu/Canary
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Vim + 360 Advantage + new layout?
Quick note about ortho vs column stagger vs row stagger when it comes to layouts: they generally don't make a difference, though sometimes you still want to make a change. This is most often with regards to upper + lower inner index vs howerow inner index, like on Canary (note the difference between the indexes of the ortho and the regular variant).
What are some alternatives?
When comparing keyboards and Canary you can also consider the following projects:
qmk-keymap - My keymap & reusable QMK gems
graphite-layout - Graphite keyboard layout
zmk-config-dactyl-manuform-4x5
antithesis-layout - QWERTY antithesis keyboard layout
iris-keyboard-keymap
zmk-config-corne-view
qmk_firmware - keyboard controller firmware for Atmel AVR USB family
oxeylyzer
miryoku - Miryoku is an ergonomic, minimal, orthogonal, and universal keyboard layout.
keygen - An(other) algorithm for generating optimal keyboard layouts.
miryoku_qmk - Miryoku is an ergonomic, minimal, orthogonal, and universal keyboard layout. Miryoku QMK is the Miryoku implementation for QMK.
keyboards vs qmk-keymap
Canary vs graphite-layout
keyboards vs zmk-config-dactyl-manuform-4x5
Canary vs antithesis-layout
keyboards vs iris-keyboard-keymap
Canary vs zmk-config-corne-view
keyboards vs qmk_firmware
Canary vs oxeylyzer
keyboards vs miryoku
Canary vs qmk_firmware
keyboards vs keygen
Canary vs miryoku_qmk