User:Klalkity/Layouts

I'm going to put some data here to practice making a table. How_to_use_tables for help.

I've also color coded the table thanks to List_of_colors, using a pale red and a shade of grey. Red are ones without any intended merit, and grey are ones whose performance are eclipsed by alternatives on the chart. I will revise some of my layouts later to eclipse the remaining competitors.


 * Layouts are modified for best use with my optimiser; symbols unused in my corpus such as [] and / are changed to and ?; Dvorak's non-letters are normalised to QWERTY's, backslash becomes -, etc.  The character after the parentheses is on the number row on some keyboards.
 * This is the total flat distance travelled for my quick corpus test.
 * Q1 is the amount of keys that match QWERTY's, including punctuation. The idea is that more QWERTY-ness leads to easier learning for QWERTY users.
 * Q2 is the amount of keys that stay on the same finger as QWERTY--including switching hands. For instance, if QWERTY's A is still on any pinky, it counts for this.  IMO this more accurately measures what changes on the key remain a partial familiarity, more than which ones "stay on the same hand," which I don't list.
 * This is my "Speed Index." It is an estimated WPM based on multiplying the rate of "slow" trigraphs times one WPM for them, and adding that to the "medium" trigraphs times a second WPM rate, plus the rate of the "fast" trigraphs times their own WPM.  This means that I estimate that a 78~ WPM QWERTY user should ideally reach 87~ WPM with the same abilities on many of the layouts above.  Anecdotal reports have confirmed this.
 * This is the original "Speed Index" with the benefit of using a "Th" key (denoted with the þ symbol) added to it, increasing the speed. In modern English "Th" is more common than "D"--by pressing it with a single key, you save at least 5.1% of overall typing, so 100%/94.9% * the SpI--for layouts that have a "Th" key.
 * This is the rate of "slow trigraphs." For a 100 WPM user, these are typically typed at 40-60 WPM.  The "Speed Index" calculates these to be 50 WPM.  Slow trigraphs include:  switching hands twice in the same trigraph; using the same finger twice in the same trigraph; using a "far" index reach from a hand that has already been used within the trigraph--not counting home row ring finger or high left middle finger; any pinky use followed by middle finger use; any pinky use followed by index use unless the index is far enough from the pinky; several other things...
 * This is the rate of "fast trigraphs." For a 100 WPM user, these are typically 160-190 WPM.  The "Speed Index" calculates these to be 170 WPM.  Fast trigraphs include:  2 consecutive, same hand keys flow inward, ending on the index finger; several other (not implemented) things...