How good/bad is QWERTY? Seriously.
So in my previous write-up, while highlighting the benefits of alternative and custom layouts, I declared without much evidence that QWERTY is not that bad at all, and also that it is in the top 2% of all the possible layouts. Well, like so many times in life: it depends. I did my original research many years ago - the exact value was in fact 1.82% -, but I forgot to mention that this is only valid in a special case: using my personal corpus and ruleset. It makes sense since back in the day I did this to support the design process of my own custom keymaps. Anyway, it was high time to redo my original experiment, dive in this topic a bit deeper, and reveal the logic and method behind my calculations. Spoiler alert: I was wrong! Or was I? ;) QWERTY Everyone knows QWERTY I guess. Christopher Sholes, Remington 2 typewriter, preventing jamming of type bars, path dependence, whatever. I'm not going to cover it here, check this previous write-up of mine if you are interested...
Jul 1, 2024
Time: 16:00–19:00
Location: ab+zu, Darmstadt, Germany https://www.qundg.de/ab-und-zu/
This will be our first meetup in Darmstadt! We'll meet in a friendly atmosphere in a cool location to show off and talk about our keyboards.
Do I want this? Attendance is free! Come over, chat about your hobby, bring your keyboards, try other keyboards, trade/eat/laugh/ :)
Also, we will have a talk by Wooting.nl and a raffle with cool prizes!
There will be free pizza and drinks at fair prices from the venue!
I want this! We created a Meetup group. Just join us and RSVP for the event, so we know how many people/keyboards to expect:
https://www.meetup.com/Mechanical-Keyboard-Meetup-Rhein-Main/events/233445797/
See you there!
Christian