DH mod is great! I have to admit that. After just several hours of training I'm typing with almost no errors and just about 5 wpm slower.
Index fingers feel great relief. Most awkward words for now are: home, them, hand, had. But new "the" and "ing" flies out already. Reliefs of the day are: the, going, thing.
"me" is now typed like "he" before, but I never realized that letter "m" is actually quite rare in English. It is sure happens rarer than "h" and "d" and feels like it is rarer than "g" (while it is actually not :)) Anyway the classic Colemak D and H position is quite good, so putting G and M which are more frequent than V and K looks reasonable. What is about B in former G position, this is no-brainer, I got used to it already.
Glad to hear about your positive experience, ckofy!
The M is the only key I had slight misgivings about, but is easily outweighed by having the H in the far superior position. So many bigrams/trigrams are improved, as you have found! You are right about "ing", even though the G is in the central column, it's somehow is easier to access it when the previous key was on the other side, making "ing" quite comfortable. M and G have similar frequencies (around 2-3%), which is about right for centre column keys. I found B being on the top row took a while to get used to, but it certainly beats having it in the default (non-angle-mod) position!
]]>Good point about the LShift with Angle-Z! It's in fact somewhat of a selling point. I'll see if I can use it.
]]>The argument for Steve's DH mod vs mine is whether you think the down-and-in positions are about as good as the down-and-out (haha!) ones. I do. That's on a normal staggered keyboard obviously; on those matrix boards the down-and-in positions are even worse than the inwards trench positions so Steve's mod is a no-brainer on those. But I don't like matrix keyboards anyway, unless they have finger curvature incorporated; even then, I prefer to work with my existing laptop keyboard etc.
]]>@steve99 can you remind me what finger you use for your mod-dh 'd' and 'v'
both left index or middle and index?
what was the argument for swapping the v and the d again?
(i'm using dreymar version so have vd rather than dv)
D and V are both left index.
With the left hand attacking the keyboard angle-mod style, the index finger naturally slides down from the home key (T) to the key left-and-below of T (i.e, the Qwerty C key). So, my argument is that this key is much superior to the V key and deserves a frequent letter, hence the D. This makes words which end -DS excellent to type. In fact typing DS is almost the same as TS.
In other words, to me, the best keys are the ones highlighted in red:
both left index or middle and index?
what was the argument for swapping the v and the d again?
(i'm using dreymar version so have vd rather than dv)
]]>If you are using my DH mod, then I'd add "the" and "nds" are lovely trigrams!
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