Carpalx QGMLWB Reviews and details

Social recommendations and mentions

• Making a Keyboard Layout

  Don’t swap to a new layout, it’s too much work to learn. Instead, swap your K and E keys. E being common but not being in your home row is responsible for a significant chunk of the inefficiency of the QWERTY layout and even if you stop here you’ve already made a huge improvement. You’ll make typos involving K and E for a few days but you’ll adapt very quickly without ever having to go through the “learning a... - Source: Hacker News / about 2 years ago

• How usable is Emacs with its default keybindings?

  Carpalx - keyboard layout optimizer. Source: about 2 years ago

• GNU nano is my editor of choice (2021)

  Is difference in number of keystrokes (keychords) not fairly convincing evidence that, at the very least, vim results in less finger effort (and therefore lower risk of RSI) than other editors? Even if you don't believe that there's a speed advantage (it's entirely plausible that the delay from cognitive processing necessary to navigate vim's more complex interface dwarfs the speed increase of pressing... - Source: Hacker News / about 2 years ago

• what is the best way to lay out the keyboard keys?

  There is a whole community dedicated to that: http://mkweb.bcgsc.ca/carpalx/. Source: over 2 years ago

• An AI designed keyboard layout

  I used the QGMLWY layout by Carpalx[0] for a year or so. The site is really interesting, worth a read. Afaik they made a list of the most common trigrams (three letter combinations) then used a genetic algorithm to optimize the layout for most of the same factors listed in OP's GitHub Readme (minimizing same finger sequences, certain kinds of movement). In the end I switched back to qwerty for 3 reasons: 1.... - Source: Hacker News / about 3 years ago

• An AI designed keyboard layout

  I have been keylogging myself for three years now and will definitely try out your approach though, looks very promising! 1. http://mkweb.bcgsc.ca/carpalx/. - Source: Hacker News / about 3 years ago

• An AI designed keyboard layout

  Wonder how this compares to QGMLWB. http://mkweb.bcgsc.ca/carpalx/?full_optimization. - Source: Hacker News / about 3 years ago

• Does anyone here use Dvorak?

  While Dvorak is a good layout, in 2021 I would always advocate using Colemak instead (at least for English typists). Colemak is: - easier to transition from QWERTY since it changes fewer keys (particularly the QAZXCVB shortcut keys) - scores marginally better than Dvorak in different models, e.g. http://mkweb.bcgsc.ca/carpalx/?colemak That said, if you're already this deep into Dvorak, I don't think the gains are... - Source: Hacker News / over 3 years ago

• Orthon layout

  Ortholinear carpalx optimization with ON adaptive key, part of RTSD family. Source: over 3 years ago

• Goldþorn keyboard layout

  Another carpalx optimized keyboard layout. Don't pour tea on it! Source: over 3 years ago

• Idea about a new layout

  So I started looking for a different layout that was not focused on the home row. But I found none, So I emailed Martin Krzywinski of carpalx and asked him if he is interested in developing a layout with the assumption of fingers resting on AWEF... Instead of ASDF... . Source: over 3 years ago

• Ask HN: Anyone Here Using Stenography

  > http://mkweb.bcgsc.ca/carpalx/ Link is dead, but it's in archive.org. Thanks for that! Really cool. I love the idea of using a model driven approach. That link is gold. Yeah, I considered learning dvorak in the early 2000s, when it was spreading like wildfire through my social group. I decided not too after having several friends gripe about the annoyance of typing on a qwerty keyboard after going dvorak.... - Source: Hacker News / over 3 years ago

• Ask HN: Anyone Here Using Stenography

  If you have some spare time, maybe try learning a new keyboard layout and be intent on learning the right fingering. I never properly learned to use all my fingers on QWERTY, but I picked up Carpalx[1] and with 1h a day of deliberate practice on TypeRacer and keybr.com[2] I managed to get to the same speed I've always typed on QWERTY (~70-90 WPM) after about a week. Since then I haven't really practiced that much... - Source: Hacker News / over 3 years ago

• Þorns I eat :D

  One of carpalx optimized keyboard layouts wiþ interesting home row pattern. Kind of edible. Source: over 3 years ago

• Colemak to Colemak DH to Soul: A story from a first-time touch typing learner

  The metrics of the layout are comparable with Colemak & Colemak DH. Notable metrics include low SFB (same finger bigram) at ~1.4%, 57% hand alternation & balanced hand usage at 48.5%/51.5%. Note that these metrics are taken from official website, so you should take them with a grain of salt and try the layouts by yourself. You can compare the layouts with an analysis tool, such as KLANext or Carpalx. Source: over 3 years ago

• 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. Source: over 3 years ago

• The T-34 keyboard layout

  If nonlinear mathematical optimization counts as machine learning, there's been at least one paper (see my other post[1] and optimization group's page[2]). Carpalx[3] is more like what you envision, but it uses simulated annealing instead of mathematical programming[4], so you can't know how far from the true optimum its solutions are. [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27428539 [2]... - Source: Hacker News / almost 4 years ago

• Dvorak vs. Colemak

  I prefer the quantitative approach taken by Carpalx [1]. This analysis finds that Dvorak and Colemak are both substantially better than QWERTY, but Colemak has the edge. [1] http://mkweb.bcgsc.ca/carpalx/?popular_alternatives. - Source: Hacker News / almost 4 years ago