Jonas Hietala: The T-34 keyboard layout

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2021-06-07 11:00:07

A couple of months ago I started looking into ergonomical keyboards; mainly split keyboards with much fewer keys, like the 36-key Gergoplex and the 44-key Kyria. I may write another post about the reasons why, but long story short I started getting pain in my thumbs, fingers, wrist and forearm, and I thought it was time to do something about it.

Because my new shiny layout has been unchanged for more than a week, I’ve clearly found my Ultimate Layout™ and it’s time to immortalize it with a blog post!

(To be completely transparent, I’ve made a few changes to it during the time it has taken me to write this post. And I’m sure, the tweaking will never stop.)

When you start looking at it, there are tons of good and interesting layouts. For example Dvorak, Workman, Colemak Mod-DH, Hands Down, MTGAP 2.0, BEAKL (many variants) and many others…

They all have their pros and cons, and which one you prefer is highly subjective. At first I chose BEAKL 15, mostly because I liked the discussion on the now defunct BEAKL forums, and I had some strain on my right pinky that I wanted to minimize.

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