Re: 'QGMLWY' keyboard

I agree with you that some common digraphs are less easy to type than in 
Dvorak. st and ou are typed with adjacent fingers 3 and 4, which Dvorak 
would avoid. In that respect, the right hand layout could be 
considerably improved just by swapping i and o (though that would 
require also moving y for the sake of the word 'you').

Otoh I find it interesting that he groups h with the vowels, as I have 
reached the same conclusion myself that this is best.

I don't know why he has the vowels on the right. Perhaps he's 
left-handed! (Dvorak in his original patent mentions the possibility of 
reversing the keyboard for lefthanders, in order to give the heavier 
typing load to their stronger hand.)

A possibility the author apparently doesn't consider is having a key 
return two characters, e.g. th. Perhaps his code could be adapted to do 
this.

Kim Bastin


On 5/10/2010 08:43, sobjornstad wrote:
> I ran across this website, which provides a new keyboard layout, with
> keys in very different positions than Dvorak. I'm personally really
> skeptical about this (especially the position of 'u' off of the home
> row), but it claims to have the "least effort" of any layout. I tried
> typing a few common digraphs on it and found many of them to be
> extremely uncomfortable. It seems that, while he considered most of
> Dvorak's design principles, the ease of typing common letter
> sequences is not considered in the program. It seems to me that this
> may also be a problem with Colemak.
>
> Do people have other thoughts about this layout, or design in
> general?
>
> http://mkweb.bcgsc.ca/carpalx/?full_optimization
>
>
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