charxii / keyboard-annealing

Simulated annealing for keyboard layouts

Keyboard Annealing

Optimizes keyboard layouts for some specific metrics

• Single Finger Bigrams
• Rolls
• 3Rolls / Onehandedness
• Alternating Hands

Install

https://github.com/charxii/Keyboard-Annealing.git
cd Keyboard-Annealing
go build

Use

Print out stats of keyboard in layouts.json as well as the optimized keyboard layouts.

./kbannealing.exe

Options

-anneal

Runs annealing process before printing out stats. This overwrites keyboards in layouts.json that starts with 000 Optimized

-folder

Uses a folder that contains monograms.txt, bigrams.txt, and trigrams.txt for data when calculating stats and annealing. This is CharFreqData/mt-quotes by default.

-text

Uses a text file that is a word list seperated by new lines to calculate n-gram data for calculating stats and annaling. Cannot be used with -folder at the same time.

-symbollock

Locks symbols to QWERTY's layout in place when annaling. Might be useful if you want to stick to having symbols on the side.