Nope, I mean portable as in possible to run from a removable drive in 'stealth mode' (i.e., without any interference with the registry or local disks), like Maté Farkas' PKL app but at a lower level if possible. This involves intercepting the system's own keyboard handling (somewhere near GetKeyboardStateEx() ?), running your own version of MapVirtualKeyEx() and then inserting the result (by SendInput() ?) I guess; but my understanding of all that is still very fuzzy. But let's move that to another topic now if it is to be discussed further; it warrants that by now.

(On a side note: As you know, you are free to remap virtual keys with the MSKLC app - just not using its' primitive GUI. You can go even further if you compile manually. I happen to like text editing myself after I discovered Vim... lucky me.)

I had the same problem with AutoHotkey.  When typing too fast, it often missed some characters that were not translated like you say, ie. I got their Qwerty equivalent.  This annoyed me so much that I switched to PKL, and I haven't had any problems ever since.

(I'm using Windows only on two PC's at work, at home it's all NetBSD/X11 which has native support for Colemak.)

I'm using vi every day with its original keybindings.  I can't afford to change them because for my job I (co-)administer >300 Linux & Solaris servers and I really don't want to install alternative configurations on each of them (and many have nvi, not vim).  But the original keybindings work just fine for me (apart from navigation, which I use the arrow keys for).

I haven't looked at it very deep or made any analysis but the period on that position? And the J on its "original" position? The comma and period are fairly often used. I wouldn't keep them there. The J is and G are on far easier to press positions.

But hey, it's all about what your typing style is and how do you feel with it.

Ive just finished making my own layout named Eaton V2:

qwym / ; pdhf-=\
raei u l tons'
zxcv j k bg,.

Does it whoop most corpi' when you also included backspace correction as it does for my own tests on http://www.andong.co.uk/dvorak/ Or by using your own home-brew layout rating program?

The position of Colemak on that curve is quite promising: Looking at it, you might think that the optimal layout is a bit down on the curve but that's rather heavily dependent on your choice of "penalty" vs "base" weightings; what's clear though is that Colemak seems both well optimized and well balanced!

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.

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.

The only thing in which Dvorak is better than Colemak is hand alternation. Base and penalty have nothing to to with hand alternation.

I thought you asked why dvorak didn't enter the curve, not better than colemak.

One thing we can agree on, is that our dawg CarpalX knows how to drop the base.

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!

Yes, I think I get that. It's still pretty much up to subjective assessments though. There's no real proof for what factors are more or less important and by how much, unfortunately.