Why hjkl is still default settings for moving around?

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  • beakl15p

    BEAKL-15p keyboard layout

  • How is it easy to press direction with pinky and moving your finger to middle column? Link to research about effociency and comfort of typing.

  • Sweep

    Sweep - a small promicro based keyboard inspired by the Ferris. (by davidphilipbarr)

  • Personally I use ferris sweep and I just hold left thumb button to have arrows on right hand and I use them for neovim and helix. Nevertheless you should prioritize minimalising Same Finger Usage (SFI) and comfort, they are most important for speed and to minimize mistakes. Bare minimum, I would remap j to up and k do down, but you can also remap helix function of unei to places of hjkl and think for yourself how would you like to have them placed.

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