qwpr VS Carpalx QGMLWB

qwpr mentions (0)

Carpalx QGMLWB mentions (18)

• 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 1 year ago

• How usable is Emacs with its default keybindings?

  Carpalx - keyboard layout optimizer. Source: about 1 year 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 / over 1 year 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: almost 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 2 years ago