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I settled on Workman 8 years ago, as the methodology behind it seemed pretty sensible. It's definitely nicer to type on than qwerty, IMO. I do however notice oc
by 000ooo000 2y ago
I settled on Workman 8 years ago, as the methodology behind it seemed pretty sensible. It's definitely nicer to type on than qwerty, IMO. I do however notice occasionally that some words are skewed to a particular hand. It definitely doesn't plague me, nor is it enough of a bother that I have even looked at other layouts. I wonder if it's even possible to adjust the layout to improve this, or does the same problem just pop up somewhere else, so to speak.
- bbojan 2y agoI found Workman horrible for same-letter bigrams. After testing a lot of different layouts I've settled on a slightly modified Colemak-DH.
- zargon 2y agoDo you mean same-finger bigrams? I can't think of how same-letter bigrams could have an effect on layout preference.
- james2doyle 2y agoI use Workman as well. I tried Colemak (a bunch of variants) and it never sat well with me. There are some words on Workman that hammer the same hand. "People" is one that trips me up sometimes that is very common. Overall, I like Workman too
- 000ooo000 2y agoYep I know exactly what you mean. I just assume that other layouts have equivalent words that are strange/awkward to type; seems unrealistic that there's a layout out there that is perfect for every common word. In any case I don't stress too much about whether or not the layout I use is the #1 top dog. The main thing was getting off QWERTY and onto something else that uses the home row more, because QWERTY hitting that top row a lot isn't the nicest for my average-sized hands (i.e. the scissoring motion contributed to a bit of discomfort long term).