Hubris
The best keyboard layout
hubris
noun. to think out of septillions of possible combinations you came up with the best keymap
Design goals
wisdom
noun. to rig the game by defining your own measurement of best
- Homerow placement of most common English characters
- Homerow placement of 0-9
- Low same finger repetition
- Low pinky workload
- Inward rolls for a few common English bigrams (e.g. ea, ou, st, th)
- Visually symmetrical layout
Recommendations for the user
- Use with an ergonomic keyboard. I find this helps me keep things separate in my head. If I'm on a standard keyboard my brain defaults to QWERTY. If I'm on my Dactyl Manuform, or similar, I have a physical reminder I'm using Hubris.
Evaluating characteristics
You may use the KLA JSON file in this repo to test the layout and compare it to others using Keyboard Layout Analyzer.