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1. 🇳🇴 Thor — backup account (thorthenorseman@octodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 22-Aug-2018 06:29:08 EDT 🇳🇴 Thor — backup account

   I think that if you honestly wanted to make a keyboard layout that improved typing speed and comfort, you'd want to place the most frequently used keys on the home row, and you'd place common digraphs on opposite hands. It's faster and easier to type two letters in succession if they are on opposite hands. As a first step, you'd want vowels on one half of the keyboard and consonants on the other. For extremely common consonant clusters, you might want to make some exceptions to the rule.

   1. 🇳🇴 Thor — backup account (thorthenorseman@octodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 22-Aug-2018 06:44:13 EDT 🇳🇴 Thor — backup account

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      Come to think of it, a simple way of laying out such a keyboard would be to produce a ranked list of the most common letter triplets in languages that use the Latin alphabet and start from there. Triplets because then you can optimise for smooth typing of chains of letter pairs.