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PLKeyboard Week 1

Hello! So I didn't do much in updating my corpus this week, just due to the amount of time and energy it takes, so I think I'm only going to update it every few days from random texts, discord messages, etc. Anyways, with that out of the way, let's see my top tens! Top ten words

the

and

to

i

a

he

of

it

was

you

Top ten Bigrams

th

he

an

re

in

er

nd

st

ea

ed

Top ten Trigrams

The

And

Ing

His

Ere

You

Hat

Thi

Sta

For

Top ten Letters

E

T

A

O

I

N

S

H

R

D

The image is the current layout for the PLBoard-C1 (PLBoard Concept 1). Next concept will come out next week. The image is the current layout for the PLBoard-C1 (PLBoard Concept 1). Next concept will come out next week.

This board has been tested with the cmini bot on the alt keyboard layouts discord server. Its scores were: Alternation (alt): 15.43% Rolls (rol): 39.62% (In/Out: 23.69% | 15.93%) One-handed rolls (one): 3.80% (In/Out: 3.25% | 0.55%) Roll totals (rtl): 43.42% (In/Out: 26.94% | 16.48%) Redirect (red): 5.44% (Bad: 1.09%) Same Finger Bigram (SFB): 9.86% Same Finger Skip-Gram (SFS): 8.36% (Red/Alt: 3.24% | 5.12%) Left Hand/Right Hand (LH/RH): 55.68% | 44.32%

The previous board I made ranked at

Alt: 14.20% Rol: 33.99% (In/Out: 25.22% | 8.77%) One: 3.49% (In/Out: 3.10% | 0.39%) Rtl: 37.48% (In/Out: 28.32% | 9.17%) Red: 2.79% (Bad: 0.88%) SFB: 11.76% SFS: 8.72% (Red/Alt: 1.84% | 6.89%) LH/RH: 56.52% | 43.48% In comparison, the PLBoard-C1 compared to the PLBoard-C-0.1 has:

Alt: 1.23% Rol: 5.63% (In/Out: -1.53% | 7.16%) One: 0.31% (In/Out: 0.15% | 0.16%) Rtl: 5.93% (In/Out: -1.38% | 7.31%) Red: 2.65% (Bad: 0.21%) SFB: 0.23% SFS: -0.36% (Red/Alt: 1.41% | -1.77%) LH/RH: -0.84% | 0.84% This means that it has more alts, rols, ones, rtls, and sfs. But it also has more red, bad, and sfb. Overall, I think this board would probably be nicer to use than the previous concept. Let's see what I come up with next week

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May have gotten a bit excited to do this. So this is the PLKeyboard Concept-0.1. You will get concept 1.0 on Sunday next week. I really love a few things with this board. For example, typing "Love." Although it requires a lot of hand movements, the word is very satisfying to type in its square pattern. "Where" is also really fun to type due to it being in pretty much a straight line. A few things to note are the placement of b and k are swapped from their positions in colemak. I honestly thought "Boy" was just nicer to type with the b and k swapped. I also put p and b next to each other because I associate the two letters with each other, and m is where it is because I wanted it to be close to m, though maybe I should swap it and q in a later version. This also has a few bigrams prioritized. Most notably, "he" and "in" are right next to each other, and go from pinky to index finger, as if you were tapping your hands on a table. I also did the same for "ou." Can't wait to see what I come up with on Sunday. I will probably make a new board on Saturday, then compare the two. I really hope to keep the "love" run.

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Thank you myself

PLKeyboard Week 0

Hello! I am Phoenix Lightning. You can also find me at the account @phoenixacxf! I am a college student and I am neurodivergent. Today's hyperfixation is keyboard layouts! So, I decided I'm going to start creating my own keyboard layout. This page is so I can document the process. Right now, I am going to be logging everything I write and start creating my layout at the end of the upcoming week. I will make updates every week or so on my commonly used words, letters, bigrams, and digraphs. Every month, I will try to update the PLKeyboard layout. Within this first month, I will update it weekly. I want to show the evolution of the layout as I create it.

I currently main on the Colemak keyboard layout, so I plan on using it most of the time. As I continue to post, and as I continue to create the layout, I might swap to it.

This layout is going to be made specifically for me, hence why I will be calling it the PLKeyboard. I am going to be prioritizing the following things:

The ctrl+z, ctrl+x, ctrl+c, and ctrl+v layouts should be easy to use (as such, the z, x, c, and v keys will stay in the same spots as in QWERTY and Colemak)

I am left handed, as such, I want to prioritize key usage on my left hand.

I want it to be easy to type bigrams and trigrams. Common groups of two and three letters should feel nice to type.

I want to minimize movement across the keys.

I want to prioritize index finger usage.

As I do more testing, these priorities may change and whatnot. I am unsure on if I want to use the middle row as my home row. I am thinking I may want to use the top or bottom row as my home row. I will do ergonomic testing eventually.

Something I will note is that I will also eventually test out split keyboards and other ergonomic modifications to see if I prefer them. This could drastically change how the layout ends up being.

I will probably not start using this layout for a few months, just some minor testing. I only just started on Colemak so I want to continue to use it as well.

Why am I making this? Only because I want to try it out and experiment. I like Colemak over QWERTY, so I want to see if I can find something I like more than Colemak. If this gets enough of a following, I may open a google forms where you all can input your own text samples so that I can start optimizing this for a larger group of people. I want this to work well for Gen Z in that scenario. In this scenario, I would make both a right handed and left handed layout.

Anyways, without further ado, let's show you guys my top ten letters, words, bigrams, and trigrams as judged based on various writings i had on my google drive (that are purely my writing).

My top ten letters are:

E (not surprising)

T (also not surprising)

A

O

I

N

H

S

R

D

My top ten words are:

the (not suprising)

and

to

I

a

he

of

was

you

it

My top ten bigrams are:

TH

HE

AN

IN

RE

ND

ER

ED

EA

ST

My top ten trigraphs are:

THE

AND

ING

HIS

ERE

YOU

HAT

THI

STA

FOR

In order to calculate my letters, bigrams, and trigrams, I used this app: https://www.dcode.fr/frequency-analysis

For words, I used this: https://www.online-utility.org/text/analyzer.jsp

So, that's what this stage looks like! Get ready for concept 1 which will come out next week!

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PLKeyboard Week 0

Hello! I am Phoenix Lightning. You can also find me at the account @phoenixacxf! I am a college student and I am neurodivergent. Today's hyperfixation is keyboard layouts! So, I decided I'm going to start creating my own keyboard layout. This page is so I can document the process. Right now, I am going to be logging everything I write and start creating my layout at the end of the upcoming week. I will make updates every week or so on my commonly used words, letters, bigrams, and digraphs. Every month, I will try to update the PLKeyboard layout. Within this first month, I will update it weekly. I want to show the evolution of the layout as I create it.

I currently main on the Colemak keyboard layout, so I plan on using it most of the time. As I continue to post, and as I continue to create the layout, I might swap to it.

This layout is going to be made specifically for me, hence why I will be calling it the PLKeyboard. I am going to be prioritizing the following things:

The ctrl+z, ctrl+x, ctrl+c, and ctrl+v layouts should be easy to use (as such, the z, x, c, and v keys will stay in the same spots as in QWERTY and Colemak)

I am left handed, as such, I want to prioritize key usage on my left hand.

I want it to be easy to type bigrams and trigrams. Common groups of two and three letters should feel nice to type.

I want to minimize movement across the keys.

I want to prioritize index finger usage.

As I do more testing, these priorities may change and whatnot. I am unsure on if I want to use the middle row as my home row. I am thinking I may want to use the top or bottom row as my home row. I will do ergonomic testing eventually.

Something I will note is that I will also eventually test out split keyboards and other ergonomic modifications to see if I prefer them. This could drastically change how the layout ends up being.

I will probably not start using this layout for a few months, just some minor testing. I only just started on Colemak so I want to continue to use it as well.

Why am I making this? Only because I want to try it out and experiment. I like Colemak over QWERTY, so I want to see if I can find something I like more than Colemak. If this gets enough of a following, I may open a google forms where you all can input your own text samples so that I can start optimizing this for a larger group of people. I want this to work well for Gen Z in that scenario. In this scenario, I would make both a right handed and left handed layout.

Anyways, without further ado, let's show you guys my top ten letters, words, bigrams, and trigrams as judged based on various writings i had on my google drive (that are purely my writing).

My top ten letters are:

E (not surprising)

T (also not surprising)

A

O

I

N

H

S

R

D

My top ten words are:

the (not suprising)

and

to

I

a

he

of

was

you

it

My top ten bigrams are:

TH

HE

AN

IN

RE

ND

ER

ED

EA

ST

My top ten trigraphs are:

THE

AND

ING

HIS

ERE

YOU

HAT

THI

STA

FOR

In order to calculate my letters, bigrams, and trigrams, I used this app: https://www.dcode.fr/frequency-analysis

For words, I used this: https://www.online-utility.org/text/analyzer.jsp

So, that's what this stage looks like! Get ready for concept 1 which will come out next week!