ColemaQ

ColemaQ

(ANSI version of the layout)

~ Created by Nyfee (✿◕‿◕)

What is ColemaQ?

ColemaQ is a mod of Colemak-DH which aims to improve the typing experience by reducing SFB's and modifying punctuation placements. Variant's of ColemaQ try to give room for further improvements upon ColemaQ, however the main version of ColemaQ gives all the original benefits with only four changes from Colemak-DH.

Changes implemented

Why is the Q on the other side?

The Q change allows ; to have a better position during quotes but lessening movement of the left pinky in text and also adding a q-u bigram roll. Less distance for the left pinky while scoring better in analyzers. Similar ideas of improving bigrams are throughout the layout.

What's the rationale behind the V-K swap?

This is to break up the n-k same finger bigram found in Colemak-DH for words such as think and know. This move is only possible by removing the boundary of keeping QWERTY shortcuts in their original positions.

Why has the punctuation been rearranged?

The e-, bigram is fairly common when typing English. This mod helps to further reduce same finger bigrams. There's also reduced movement of the 'e' and 'a' columns because of the punctuation moves, regardless how seemingly small.

Symbols modification

The symbols in the top right of the keyboard have been rearranged. This makes the commonly used hyphen easier to reach. The +/= key has also been placed in a better position.

Without symbols mod Without symbols
With symbols mod With symbols