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BEAKL layout
BEAKL is another alternative layout. While I'm sceptic about most of these off-the-shelf solutions, I really liked the home box approach and the somewhat unusual penalty table.
I've just stumbled upon the BEAKL layout. (Btw, BEAKL stands for Balanced Effortless Advanced Keyboard Layout.)
The takeaways:
Rewarding middle finger on the top row while penalizing it on the lower one.
Home box concept. There's nothing wrong with my pinkies on the home row, but I have to measure their exact response times yet.
Thumb clusters rule.
More about the BEAKL alternative layout here
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