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
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Its been 2 years since we started, so thank you for continuing to support us in listening to our podcast.
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Kevin joins me late thanks to the rain and haircuts, but we talk our way through some topics:
- Another Podcast!: https://typehype.net/threads/the-international-kit-a-new-podcast-for-the-mechanical-keyboards-community-episode-1.399/
- Unsafe behaviour: https://www.reddit.com/r/mechmarket/comments/99fpf2/comment/e4oepoq?st=JL6I6HN9&sh=b2885070
- Box Switches wrap up: https://www.reddit.com/r/MechanicalKeyboards/comments/9a20dp/received_new_stock_box_royals_and_measured_stems/
- https://www.reddit.com/r/MechanicalKeyboards/comments/98w7az/buying_box_switches_with_new_stem_mr_sleeves_gb/
- Handy Tool: https://www.reddit.com/r/MechanicalKeyboards/comments/98tfnc/time_for_another_3d_printed_switch_modding_tool/
- Handy PCB Tool: https://www.reddit.com/r/MechanicalKeyboards/comments/98po20/best_pcb_manufacturer/
- CA66 R2: https://play-keyboard.store/collections/group-buys/products/ca66-66-custom-keyboard-kit
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