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Jameson Quinn — Fri, 15 Mar 2013 04:45:29 -0000

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 I'd heard about Dvorak, and I decided to make the switch. But even after about a week, I still didn't like it at all; especially the L and apostrophe keys seem to me especially poorly-placed (or maybe I just have short pinkies).

-I looked into it some more, and I began to learn about various alternative layouts. In particular, Asset and the (Carpalx partial)[http://mkweb.bcgsc.ca/carpalx/?partial_optimization]/(carpalxq)[http://jumpedthesynapse.blogspot.com/2007/07/carpalxq.html] inspired me to see that the 80/20 rule applied; a good layout could give over 80% of the ergonomic and speed advantages, with under 20% of the retraining effort. However, neither of those existing solutions had the international support I was looking for, and also I thought I could do even better, so I decided to design my own. One resource which was useful was typeit.org, where I could easily see which accented characters were needed for over 20 languages.
+I looked into it some more, and I began to learn about various alternative layouts. In particular, Asset and the [Carpalx partial](http://mkweb.bcgsc.ca/carpalx/?partial_optimization)/[carpalxq](http://jumpedthesynapse.blogspot.com/2007/07/carpalxq.html) inspired me to see that the 80/20 rule applied; a good layout could give over 80% of the ergonomic and speed advantages, with under 20% of the retraining effort. However, neither of those existing solutions had the international support I was looking for, and also I thought I could do even better, so I decided to design my own. One resource which was useful was typeit.org, where I could easily see which accented characters were needed for over 20 languages.

 This work would not have been possible without tools like Portable Keyboard Layout and [Frank Grießhammer's keyboard-layouts tool](https://github.com/adobe-type-tools/keyboard-layouts). Also, [Keyboard Layout Analyzer](http://patorjk.com/keyboard-layout-analyzer/) is pretty darn cool.

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Jameson Quinn — Fri, 15 Mar 2013 04:43:56 -0000

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 I looked into it some more, and I began to learn about various alternative layouts. In particular, Asset and the (Carpalx partial)[http://mkweb.bcgsc.ca/carpalx/?partial_optimization]/(carpalxq)[http://jumpedthesynapse.blogspot.com/2007/07/carpalxq.html] inspired me to see that the 80/20 rule applied; a good layout could give over 80% of the ergonomic and speed advantages, with under 20% of the retraining effort. However, neither of those existing solutions had the international support I was looking for, and also I thought I could do even better, so I decided to design my own. One resource which was useful was typeit.org, where I could easily see which accented characters were needed for over 20 languages.

-This work would not have been possible without tools like Portable Keyboard Layout and [Frank Grießhammer's keyboard-layouts tool](https://github.com/adobe-type-tools/keyboard-layouts).
+This work would not have been possible without tools like Portable Keyboard Layout and [Frank Grießhammer's keyboard-layouts tool](https://github.com/adobe-type-tools/keyboard-layouts). Also, [Keyboard Layout Analyzer](http://patorjk.com/keyboard-layout-analyzer/) is pretty darn cool.

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Jameson Quinn — Fri, 15 Mar 2013 04:39:58 -0000

I'd heard about Dvorak, and I decided to make the switch. But even after about a week, I still didn't like it at all; especially the L and apostrophe keys seem to me especially poorly-placed (or maybe I just have short pinkies).

I looked into it some more, and I began to learn about various alternative layouts. In particular, Asset and the (Carpalx partial)[http://mkweb.bcgsc.ca/carpalx/?partial_optimization]/(carpalxq)[http://jumpedthesynapse.blogspot.com/2007/07/carpalxq.html] inspired me to see that the 80/20 rule applied; a good layout could give over 80% of the ergonomic and speed advantages, with under 20% of the retraining effort. However, neither of those existing solutions had the international support I was looking for, and also I thought I could do even better, so I decided to design my own. One resource which was useful was typeit.org, where I could easily see which accented characters were needed for over 20 languages.

This work would not have been possible without tools like Portable Keyboard Layout and Frank Grießhammer's keyboard-layouts tool.