Oo, it's a complex bit of humor Piotr. Not sure I can explain it to you easily, really, but here goes:
• "Drop the bass" is an expression from pop music, look it up
• It's often used in word jokes such as "Why can't dubsteppers work in chemistry labs? Because they keep dropping the base!"
• In this case, CarpalX choses to focus on "penalty" over "base" which sets his layouts apart from other optimized layouts; Colemak seems similarly optimized but with lower "base" and higher "penalty"
• Thus, one may say that CarpalX drops the base, and make a silly joke about it!
The reason for CarpalX focusing on penalty over base is that stroke can also be optimized.
]]>One thing we can agree on, is that our dawg CarpalX knows how to drop the base.
What does dris means?
]]>Okay, now stroke-penalty looks weird too! :-D
]]>I didn't mean better than Colemak, but better than its poor position in that diagram. The other diagrams illustrate it though: Dvorak is a bit high on base, in the middle of the heat on penalty and okay on stroke. So on the base-penalty diagram, it doesn't shine.
I thought you asked why dvorak didn't enter the curve, not better than colemak.
]]>Not sure why Dvorak doesn't do better, though. It's a decent layout (but moves way too many keys!).
The only thing in which Dvorak is better than Colemak is hand alternation. Base and penalty have nothing to to with hand alternation.
]]>Sure. But it still depends heavily on a mostly subjective weighting of base vs various penalties! So the exact numbers don't hold too much significance really.
Some algorithms like Fitt's estimate the actual time cost of actions. They give more objective results, but probably can't quite tell you which keyboard layout is the best for you nevertheless.
1. base is negative correlated with penalty (optimizing one results in other one worse)
2. penalty is correlated with stroke (optimizing one results in other one also lowered)
3. stroke is negative correlated with base (optimizing one results in other one worse)
So it's possible to improve both penalty and stroke, at cost of higher base (2 at cost of 1). So does QGMLWB.
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Some algorithms like Fitt's estimate the actual time cost of actions. They give more objective results, but probably can't quite tell you which keyboard layout is the best for you nevertheless.
]]>Also, from that curve it would seem that CarpalX's layout sacrifices base cost completely to achieve lower penalty? Which is odd, as this is his own assessments.
If base is optimized, increased penalty is much higher than optimizing penalty at cost of base. See curve and numbers at sides for scale.
]]>Not sure why Dvorak doesn't do better, though. It's a decent layout (but moves way too many keys!).
Also, from that curve it would seem that CarpalX's layout sacrifices base cost completely to achieve lower penalty? Which is odd, as this is his own assessments.
Which online analyzers are good? I only know of Patorjk's and Stevep99's that are easily available and decent. And as you hint to, Patorjk's analyzer is quite biased towards some goals that I don't quite subscribe to.
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