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Offline Popkeymon

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Fitaly Keyboard Adaptation
« on: Sun, 13 March 2011, 07:54:46 »
Sure I can type with Dvorak lefty. But it would be nice to have choice rather than none.

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Offline Popkeymon

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Fitaly Keyboard Adaptation
« Reply #1 on: Mon, 14 March 2011, 00:20:11 »
The layout was set to the left side of the ordinary keyboard so that no more problem of reaching the shift key for capital letter. The finger could rest on home row with middle finger touching the pivotal key at the qwerty-f button.

The layout occupy four row including 1-6 so that all alphabet typing will not swing the whole hand over the standard keyboard.

However, I believe that the Fitaly layout is not optimised as some frequent letter such as H is placed on the top row making typing TH unnatural. I sincerely ask for your expertise for dumping the layout such as pkl for real testing and develop more alternative layout for people to choose from.

Offline hoggy

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Fitaly Keyboard Adaptation
« Reply #2 on: Mon, 14 March 2011, 01:45:51 »
I like their idea of having the space occupy a large part of the middle of the square.

It's designed to be used with one finger or a pointing device and to keep common digraphs (pairs of letters) close together.

You might want to take a look at the maltron site for letter frequencies and their one handed layout.
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