Robert, I certainly agree with Philip about typing with a cat on my lap! I use "one hand for the cat, one for the mouse"...
What I don't understand in the right hand layout is the placement of the letter P. Given the English letter frequency ETAOIN SHRDLU, the letter T, N, or S would make more sense. Putting T and N in the same row with E, A O, and moving P and U would minimize row changing in typing English. An obvious idea to me if you really want a 1 handed keyboard for languages is ETAOIN <,> in the Home Row and SHRDLU<.> above it, and the remaining consonants below or to the left of the upper 2 rows of characters. Also, my life would be easier if you had dyad keys, such as <TH> or <ES> or <ED>. Again, look at the dyad frequenecy maps, but I suggest you try minimize row changing during single words as much as possible. - - - On a side note, since I am progressively losing the use of my outer fingers to osteoarthritis, Dragon 13.5 is a far better solution for me than a new keyboard. Thanks for the stimulus. Clive On Mon, Jan 26, 2015 at 11:36 AM, Philippe Verdy <[email protected]> wrote: > Very strange layout of the bottom row. > Note that if your layout is visiblly otimized for the right hand (mostly > for those that use only one hand to type; so that the left part contains > only the least used keys), > > I doubt that this really works well for typing just with one hand: those > same users will also not use more than two fingers and the 5th finger (to > the rightmost part of the keyboard) will still be hard to type. > > I dont understnd the nwhy you placed punctuations mixed beteen letters on > the left part and the media row, I would have kept them to the rightmost > part (colon/semicolon key, and single/double quotes key. > > Now if users will try to use both hands, then your left/right separation > does not work so well > And the letter C is evidently badly placed, more difficult to reach than > the letters J Z V B (for English this C keys at least should be shifted > to the middle; where it would also be more accessible for one-hand typists, > or one-finger typists) > > 2015-01-25 22:54 GMT+01:00 Robert Wheelock <[email protected]>: > >> Hello! >> >> I came up with a BRAND-NEW keyboard layout designed to make typing >> easier——named the IEAOU (ee-eh-ah-oh-oo) System—based on letter frequencies. >> >> The letters in the new IEAOU layout are arranged as follows: >> >> (TOP): Digits / Punctuation / Accents >> (MEDIAL): Q Y <:|;> W <"|'> L N D T S H <+|=> <\|!> >> (HOME): X K G F <´|`> P I E A O U >> (BOTTOM): C J Z V B M R <<|,> <>|.> <?|/> >> >> Please respond to air what you’d think of it. Thank You! >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Unicode mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://unicode.org/mailman/listinfo/unicode >> >> > > _______________________________________________ > Unicode mailing list > [email protected] > http://unicode.org/mailman/listinfo/unicode > > -- Clive P. Hohberger, PhD MBA Managing Director Clive Hohberger, LLC +1 847 910 8794 [email protected]
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