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van_dachs OP t1_jdnnhq8 wrote

Reply to comment by led_coyote in I may or may not have gone down a very slippery slope in the last few days... by van_dachs

This is why I just straight up ditched the middle keys. Biggest change for me right now is definitely backspacing with my thumb. I kinda like it, but my pinky still reaches into thin air now and then.

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led_coyote t1_jdnoa2e wrote

That might have helped. My attempt was to pretty much just move the outside columns to the middle. Esc, Tab, and backspace were a rather onerous reach, while coding. I did like having shift in the middle where both hands could reach it though. May try it again sometime with more thumb / bottom-row emphasis

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van_dachs OP t1_jdnscbr wrote

I took my usual 40 percent layout and heavily used the Miryoku layout as an inspiration to port it to 36 keys. Definitely took a bit of trial and error until I reached a point where it felt good, but I found the Miryoku layout to be a great starting point.

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