keygen
keyboards
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keygen
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The T-34/2 keyboard layout
This makes it hard to find alt layouts that feel comfortable with Vim. I've tried RSTHD, BEAKL 15, ISRT, and a couple failed attempts at designing my own layout with xsznix's optimizer. Maybe I am just picky. I currently use Dvorak, which has nice j k positions, but of course it is an old layout that is beat in many metrics by more recent layouts.
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what is the best way to lay out the keyboard keys?
There are also tools to optimise the layout based on the text & rules you like, for example: https://github.com/xsznix/keygen.
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Best keyboard layout analyzer from corpus (I bulid my own.)?
In addition to KLA, check out the ADNW Optimising keyboard layouts program (C++). If you're into Rust, look at the RSTHD keygen. Note that they all have their own peculiarities/biases and none of them should be used blindly. Understand what their various e.g. penalties are and tweak their code/configs to better match your personal needs and corpus.
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Designing a keyboard layout to use certain finger(s) less
I forked xsznix/keygen (origin of RSTHD layout), tweaked it with my own weightings as well as generally playing around with the code a bit, and here’s what came out:
- Working on an optimizer, and this layout came out
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Auto-generated keyboard layouts: Do they exist? Would they be good?
It's computationally intensive task and it takes time to optimize layout, people spend weeks on full optimizations, hours and days in more simple cases. There are several optimizers like carpalx, opt, keygen etc.
- Share your keyboard layouts, here is my iris layout
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What is the most efficient keyboard layout?
For instance the RSTHD creater has created a rust program that optimizes a layout using efforts for certain keys: https://github.com/xsznix/keygen There are other similar programs out there as well.
keyboards
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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.
What are some alternatives?
genkey - The layout analyzer and generator used to create Semimak
qmk-keymap - My keymap & reusable QMK gems
Workman - Workman keyboard layout
zmk-config-dactyl-manuform-4x5
opt - A sophisticated keyboard layout optimizer by Andreas Wettstein. Found here: 509.ch/opt.htm & adnw.de where you can also find the reference wordlists (Wortlisten) for german & english
iris-keyboard-keymap
halmak - The final version of the AI designed keyboard layout
qmk_firmware - keyboard controller firmware for Atmel AVR USB family
layout-optimisation
miryoku - Miryoku is an ergonomic, minimal, orthogonal, and universal keyboard layout.
keygen - An(other) algorithm for generating optimal keyboard layouts.
qmk-crkbd-vscode-builder - Build scripts for crkbd keymap + vscode macros