This website tells me this:
GERMAN
Order Of Frequency Of Single Letters: E N R I S T U D A H G L O C M B Z F W K V P J Q X Y
Most Common Digraphs: en er ch de ge ei ie in ne be el te un st di un ue se au re he it ri tz
Most Common Trigraphs: ein ich den der ten cht sch che die ung gen und nen des ben rch
Common Two-Letter Words: ab, am, an, da, er, es, ob, so, wo, im, in, um, zu, du, ja ab
Using Juli16 for German:
- German and Dutch are similar, but the U is much more used in German. It's location may be suboptimal
- digraphs and trigraphs (my assessment). Easy = bold. Normal = normal, Hard = italic
Most Common Digraphs: en er ch de ge ei ie in ne be el te un st di un ue se au re he it ri tz
Most Common Trigraphs: ein ich den der ten cht sch che die ung gen und nen des ben rch
Common Two-Letter Words: ab, am, an, da, er, es, ob, so, wo, im, in, um, zu, du, ja ab
For Dutch, it is slightly better. Yet, depite this, even for German, Juli16 scores better than Colemak, Dvorak and all other layouts in Patorjk. I compared in Patorjk Juli16 to the layouts Colemak, Dvorak and Balance 12 (which is a very good layout). For various languages. These are the winners.
For Italian: winner is Juli16
For German: winner is Juli16
For French:winner is Juli16
For Dutch: winner is Juli16
For spanish: winner is Balance12, # 2= Juli16 #3/#4 = Dvorak or Colemak
For English: winner is Balance12, # 2= Juli16 #3/#4 = Dvorak or Colemak
In case your interested, some stats for Juli16 on my corpus:
Left hand: 57% - Fingers: pinky 9% ring 10% middle 22% index 16%
Right hand: 42% - Fingers: pinky 8% ring 10% middle 12% index 14% (I am righthanded by the way; the layout is a bit skewed to the left, but not problematically so).
Inward rolls:7.5%; Outward rolls: 2.9%
Same hand:36.4%; Same finger:1.5%;
Row change:12.3% Home jump: 0.7% (home jump is on a qwerty board for instance iec or mu
For comparison, here is Colemak (on an English corpus!) :
Left hand: 46% - Fingers: pinky 8% ring 7% middle 11% index 18%
Right hand: 53% - Fingers: pinky 9% ring 10% middle 15% index 18%
Inward rolls: 4.6%; Outward rolls: 2.5%
Same hand: 42.6%; Same finger: 1.9%
Row change: 18.6%; Home jump: 1.3%
And here is Dvorak (on an English corpus!)
Left hand: 44% - Fingers: pinky 8% ring 8% middle 12% index 14%
Right hand: 55% - Fingers: pinky 11% ring 13% middle 13% index 16%
Inward rolls: 4.1%; Outward rolls: 1.3%
Same hand: 31.1%; Same finger: 3.2%
Row change: 14.4%; Home jump: 0.5%
So, my layout scores better on distance (not included here); has more rolls than Colemak and Dvorak, lower row change than both, lower same finger than both. The alternation (same hand stat.) is between Dvorak and Colemak. Dvorak favors left-right, left-right (LRLR etc), my layout favors LLRRLLRR etc. Dvorak does best on home jumps: very low. Mind that the Colemak and Dvorak stats are done with and English corpus (for which they are optimized), my stats are done with a 85% Dutch corpus, for which it is optimized. When Colemak and Dvorak are "fed" with Dutch text, they will score worse, and the gap with my optimized layout will be larger.
One of the problems for me with Colemak is the placement of D, H, G and J => index finger overload in Dutch. Dvorak is better, but has the I and D, and to a lesser degree the G, wrong. Plus, LRLRLR is too much alternation for me. Juli16 has very nice short rolls in Dutch: en ne ie ei dr tr st ts bl ou
To be perfectly clear (I am on a Colemak forum after all ;-) : Dvorak and Colemak are both way better than Qwerty, also for Dutch and German. If you don't want to go the "custom layout" route, please try both Colemak and Dvorak and pick the one you like best.
Last edited by pieter (12-Sep-2014 11:28:38)