pinkieache in the other thread reminded me: check out the one-handed dvorak layouts:
It could eliminate the need for lateral movement almost entirely.
Edit: It's hard to tell whether the right-hand layout
(possibly shifted one to the left) has better digraphs. Improved ones include. ON, ES (which are even made two-handed in this case), while worsened include ER/RE,
I get the feeling that Dvorak put a lot of time into the one handed layouts, but it doesn't look that great does it? The numeral placment looks most odd.
There must be some method in the madness.
Have you statistically analylized them @lalop?
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I'm afraid I don't really know how to analyze free-handed layouts. Just glancing, it doesn't look so bad to me. The numbers have to go somewhere (though I have to wonder whether the relative placements really reflect frequency), the vowels are mostly on one side. Some common letters are in weird out-of-way places (n) would be my main complaint, I guess due to lack of space. All in all, it does resemble a squished dvorak (aside from the vowels being on the opposite side).
Edit: a real complaint might be that he didn't take the opportunity to move any of the command keys (enter,backspace,shift,ctrl,alt,altgr) closer. To be fair, some would not have existed at the time. This could be a real area for improvement.
