Carpalx QGMLWB VS Colemak

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 1 year ago

Carpalx - keyboard layout optimizer. Source: about 1 year ago

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 / over 1 year ago

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

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 2 years ago

Anecdotally, I gave Dvorak a try and became somewhat proficient, but ultimately reverted back to QWERTY for one reason: keyboard shortcuts! Control-C|V|Z are all transformed into either two-handed shortcuts or right-handed shortcuts. In either case, I can't copy/paste while selecting text with the mouse (since I'm right-handed). I now use Colemak (https://colemak.com/) which doesn't have this issue and I'm quite... - Source: Hacker News / 11 months ago

Like, well, the original US layout, or Colemak. Suddenly, all those "hard-to-type" special characters and shortcuts start to make sense... Source: 12 months ago

I started out using colemak.vim from the https://colemak.com webpage. Rather quickly I found that there were some things that I didn't like about the configuration, so I started modifying it. Eventually I had enough changes that I uploaded a fork of the configuration:. Source: about 1 year ago

For reference, here's the keyboard layout: https://colemak.com/. Source: about 1 year ago

Lets change all new keyboards to the Colemak layout, and change the order of the Alphabet to match. Source: about 1 year ago