Keyboard Layout Design 🔠

Here we study the efficiency of keyboard key layout (for example, QWERTY, Dvorak.), and also study layouts of languages such as Chinese, Japanese, Russian, that require special input methods.

Note: for hand health and input efficiency, the most important thing is the physical input device. Buy a keyboard with mechanical key switches first. [see Keyboard Key Switch Mechanisms] The second important thing is efficiency of shortcuts, namely, the key shortcuts layout. [see Design of Keybinding, Key Shortcut, Input-System]. The importance of letter layout comes after them.

Keyboard Layouts and Efficiency

• QWERTY

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  Dvorak Keyboard Layout
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  Ergonomic Keyboard Layouts
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  Thumb Keyboard Layouts

• Most Efficient Layout?
• Maltron vs Dvorak
• Colemak vs Workman
• Typing Multi Layouts

Layout Efficiency

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  Character Frequency Plot

• Most Efficient Layout for Numbers?
• Semicolon vs Apostrophe Frequency
• Inverted Number Row Better?
• Arrow Keys Arrangement Efficiency: vim HJKL vs IJKL

International Layouts

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  International Keyboard Layouts

Misc

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  C L Sholes XPM Layout, 1896