When you are drilling new keys but you absolutely do not want to look at the layout map that shows the keys you are supposed to know already.

    • galilette
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      1 year ago

      True that. I’m definitely not promoting “layout of the month” type of thing :D

      My first foray into alt layout provided some intuition of what aspects of a layout are important to me personally and how they translate to various metrics. After that I make use of analyzers to evaluate different layouts without physically trying them out. I only transitioned to my current layout after becoming relatively sure – through the analyzers – it’s something I’d stick to. I was mainly talking about this second transition being easier than learning the first one.

      Speaking of analyzers, take a look at clemenpine’s keysolve and oxey’s layout playground

      There is also an extensive alt layout document compiled by ec0vid.