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
andg
) 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%) andch
(~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.
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