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 / over 1 year ago

Carpalx - keyboard layout optimizer. Source: over 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

Shortcat: https://shortcat.app/ It makes it VERY easy to keep your fingers on the keyboard almost all the time, which really helps things fly. It's an equivalent of the AceJump plugin for IntelliJ if you've used that, but it uses the accessibility tree instead of the contents of the editor. - Source: Hacker News / 5 days ago

Many MacOS users don’t know that, in almost all applications, 'Command + ?' opens the Help menu and immediately focuses a search field that allows the user to search and activate any menu command. An additional non-native but amazing (and free!) application is Shortcat (https://shortcat.app/). Among other amazing abilities, Shortcat lets the user access parts of the current application’s GUI that may not be... - Source: Hacker News / 4 months ago

MacOS actually does better in this area of keyboardless software: you have https://www.homerow.app/ and https://shortcat.app/. Not sure about linux, but I would imagine that the home of OS hackers would have something similar. - Source: Hacker News / 7 months ago

If you're on Mac try shortcat - it's solved most mouse issues for me. I use a mouse now <5% of tasks and keyboard shortcuts for the rest. Https://shortcat.app/. Source: 12 months ago

As you may or may not know, there's an app called Shortcat for Mac, which is amazingly cool: it allows you to navigate the "whole" UI using the keyboard (something like Vimium in the browser, but for all the "normal" windows). Source: about 1 year ago