Snow layout

Snow layout is ortholinear SWORD optimization. Optimization is based on frequency dictionary generated from 5 000 featured Wikipedia articles.

Snow layout

To reduce unnecessary finger movements, n and h exchange places when preceeded by t.

Load distribution

Finger distribution and typing effort take into account 26 letters and space. Empty slots are reserved for punctuation characters.

Keyboard effort ------------------------------------------------------------ k1 0.508 84.4 84.4 k1,k2 0.594 14.2 98.7 k1,k2,k3 0.602 1.3 100.0 b 0.231 17.5 17.5 p 0.371 28.1 45.6 ph 0.000 0.0 0.0 pr 0.132 35.6 35.6 pf 0.204 54.9 90.5 s 0.719 54.4 100.0 all 1.321 100.0 100.0

Typing effort is 1.321.

QMK configuration for ID75 fullgrid ortholinear QMK programmable keyboard is available for testing. It can be compiled locally as qmk compile -kb idobo -km gkbd_snow and flashed in dfu mode. JSON configuration can be viewed in QMK configurator.

March 9, 2022. Giorgi Chavchanidze.