manueljlin / bopo

bopo

Alt keyboard layout optimized for Pinyin inspired by Canary:

• Slight bias on right hand that's balanced by placing space and your own shortcuts and layers on the left thumb keys (just trust me bro)
• Emphasis on 1) low sfb and 2) a crazy amount of rolls in that order
• Right section has the vowel cluster. Vowels make up 60% of the last letters of the syllables (remaining 40% being n and g) but only 2% of the initial ones. That means that more often than not, you'll start typing a syllable on the left half and finish on the right like a Steno russian roulette.
• Unlike Canary, there's more pinky usage, but it's for letters that are overwhelmingly used either zero times or once within the same syllable. Most common combined consonant pairs are ng (~55%), sh (~15%), zh (~15%) and ch (~14%) covering pretty much all of that.

Name is a pun on bépo and bopomofo
Stats from oxey's playground
Made by analyzing data published by Jun Da, Ph.D at Middle Tennessee State University

Note

If a significant part of what you write is English, especially if you are a programmer, I'd advice you not to use this, or at least swap between this and (Colemak-DH | Canary | Nerps | Sturdy | ...). It's not quite QWERTY meme tier, but much closer to that than even Dvorak.

Imagine for a second typing defmacro, match, type, const, import, ref, function, struct... Ouch.

0.4

c l m t f    q o e
z h n g b  w y i a u
s j r d k  p x     v
        ⎵  ⇧ .

0.031% sfb and ~65% total rolls seems promising

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Previous attempts that suck even more

0.3

w x j b f    l e o
z n g h t  q y a i u
s j r d k  p c     v
        ⎵  ⇧ .

0.2

w j y l m    f e r
z h n g t  q o a i u
s x b d k  p c     v
        ⎵  ⇧ .

0.1

w m j b f    l e o
z g h y t  q n a i u
s x r d k  p c     v
        ⎵  ⇧ .