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]]>For a Colemak typist, that's a Colemak-type layout, just as it is a QWERTY-based layout for the Sholes crowd.
Whhhhaaat? I thought the whole point of being a touch typist is that you never look at the keys, so their position is not relevant to your brain. Heh. For myself, I have no freaking clue what keys correspond to what I actually type. I just think "I need to type 'fourteen'" and my fingers do the rest. When I think 'u' my right middle finger twitches toward the appropriate key, but if you asked me without a keyboard around, I'd have to think about it. :p
I mean, I guess someone out there is so skilled with his thumbs that he can touch-type with them, but that person surely isn't me. Hell, I can't even type QWERTY anymore after going Colemak full-time, but I have no problems with my phone's sliding keyboard.
]]>Go there, leave a comment, and we'll have colemak within the month.
]]>This shouldn't be too hard if we just tackle it..
]]>For ease of recognition, simply an alphabetic layout may be the best solution?
]]>Any Colemak typist can in reality easily recognize a QWERTY layout of course, so part of the argument will be aesthetics I suppose. :)
]]>really colemak should only rearrange alphanumeric characters and not anything else that's phone-specific.
Why? Colemak wasn't designed for phones, but for computer keyboards. But you're free to create your own variants to meet your own requirements...
FYI, thumb / E.161 keyboards have very different optimization parameters (as they are not used with 10 fingers, but usually with just one), and other layouts have been specifically optimized for that.
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The Droid already uses my ; and :, but the other stuff is kind of bizarre... really colemak should only rearrange alphanumeric characters and not anything else that's phone-specific.
]]>WANT COLEMAK. Since Android is open, I expect it to eclipse the iPhone in terms of market share very soon.
]]>Best
Alex
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