![]() ![]() The index fingers now have a more important job of pressing a few common keys, and some of their former responsibilities are now delegated to the longer middle fingers. I think, one of the biggest advantages of the layout is that the originally insanely high number (15!) of the keys pressed by the index fingers is greatly reduced, as well as their travel distance. Subjectively, it feels easier to type with Almak. QWERTY ' is now The apostrophe is much more commonly used than the semicolon, so I decided to move the apostrophe (and the quote) closer.Īs you can see, it’s not really that different from Colemak.Īccording to the Layout Analyzer, Almak is only slightly less efficient than both Colemak and Dvorak, but the Almak's finger usage is much more uniform. QWERTY P is now K I feel that with the alternative hand placement it is slightly easier to press QWERTY P than QWERTY. But it is well worth it, since it only takes about 20 minutes to get used to it, and I often use Ctrl+Insert, Ctrl+Delete, and Shift+Insert instead anyway. It interchanges the position of the Ctrl+V and Ctrl+A hotkeys, however, ruining one of the Colemak's selling points. The change also enables a couple of nice new rolls: STA-ATS and ONE-ENO (honest stats). QWERTY N is now O Letter frequency - since I won't have the pinkies on A and O anymore, I decided to move the 3rd and 4th most used letters to the place they rightly deserve, and move the V and K, the two of the least used keys, out of the way. Not having found a suitable layout, I decided to make my own, designed especially for this finger placement. ![]() It didn’t work on the nonsensical QWERTY layout, because it was designed with the limitations of the ancient typewriters in mind, but not the poor human beings who were going to continue to use this terrible layout long after both the typewriters and their limitations are gone. It worked on neither Dvorak or Colemak, because they were designed with the standard palm placement in mind. Since I started using this palm placement, I was trying to adapt it to one of the English layouts, but it didn’t work very well. I think this hand placement, even used with QWERTY, is a better way to prevent the carpal tunnel syndrome then adopting any of the good custom layouts. The wrists assume a natural position with no strain whatsoever, and even the shoulders are more relaxed because there’s no need to keep the elbows closer to one another. Unlike with the standard finger placement, when your fingers are almost perpendicular to the rows of your keyboard, here the fingers are angled roughly 45 degrees to the keyboard, which makes it easier to reach the top and bottom rows. He argues, in Russian, and I wholeheartedly agree, that by moving the palms closer to one another by one key, a typist can achieve a more natural hand and wrist position, better workload distribution among the fingers, and suffers less fatigue when typing for a long time. The idea of the alternative palm placement was originally suggested many years ago for the Cyrillic standard ЙЦУКЕН layout by Alexey Kazantsev, the developer of the touch-typing training program Stamina. I honestly think that the standard finger placement is as bad as the QWERTY layout itself. ![]()
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