Today's fun quiz:
What if I told you that by exchanging two keys on the standard Colemak layout would result in same-finger bigrams being reduced by a quarter?
Specifically, according to my calculations, from 1.5% to 1.1% of all bigrams...
Anyone already know - or can guess - what sorcery I am talking about?
Using Colemak-DH with Seniply.
Okay, hit us.
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Sorry I couldn't resist the tease - unfortunately the answer is not very exciting...
Swap Z with comma!
This is based on the fact if you include punctuation keys the "e," bigram is easily the most common in Colemak.
In reality though I suspect that general typing is probably not quite the same as doing analysis based on a corpus of out-of-copyright books.
I am not proposing a Z-comma swap. Comma is sufficiently common that I'd rather have in it on the stronger finger anyway. Plus it seems perverse to be moving Z!
But I thought it was an interesting little aside.
Using Colemak-DH with Seniply.
Ugh, that's nasty but interesting. The period-comma pair are a pair and can't be broken up without too much pain. Home to <>, they're sometimes used as a kind of left/right keys.
Also, that'd be two more keys moved from their QWERTY positions, which means there'd have to be a very good reason!
Moving the Z may be less bad than I used to think. After all, Undo isn't really an integral part of the Cut/Copy/Paste block. So if I were using an ANSI keyboard I might try the ZXVCB Angle swap I guess.
Yes, interesting. :-D
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