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A long time ago, I ran an amateur experiment that applied an evolutionary algorithm to the problem of keyboard layout, using a simple function of finger motion
by pklausler 11y ago
A long time ago, I ran an amateur experiment that applied an evolutionary algorithm to the problem of keyboard layout, using a simple function of finger motion across a corpus of English language text and source code. The best-performing evolved layouts all had the common vowels on the home row's left side and the common consonants on its right side. So I stuck with Dvorak for my own use, since it's easily available everywhere.
- beefman 11y agoHi! Why did you take it down? http://www.klausler.com/evolved.html http://www.klausler.com/evolved.html I wrote about it in 2002 http://lumma.org/microwave/#2002.07.09 http://lumma.org/microwave/#2002.07.09 (I learned QWERTY in 1991, switched to Dvorak in 2001, and never looked back. Which is good because switching cold-turkey caused extinction of my QWERTY ability.)