[OC] Which language is easiest to type on the QWERTY keyboard?

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  • Got curious and found this: https://www.patrick-wied.at/projects/heatmap-keyboard/ Piped the US constitution into it and looked at the heat maps. Dvorak and Colemak are pretty comparable with most of the typing taking place on the home row.

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  • These scoring systems already exist. Here's the first one I found: https://github.com/bclnr/kb-layout-evaluation

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    A keyboard layout optimizer supporting multiple layers. Implemented in Rust.

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