Description
Hands up came to be because I wanted a layout that focuses almost entirely on inrolls and low redirects. Genkey was the perfect tool to get a rough idea for
this, starting from a nrst
and hiea
homerow it was able to get good columns
very quickly, I didn't really handmake a lot of this.
Inevitably this was to the cost of some patterns like
cr
, fi
, pr
and gl
. It also has higher dsfbs than you
might find on other layouts, though keep in mind about 0.8% of this can be attributed to the
oe
column. was mostly index reordering and getting rid of pnb
on pinky, which
was something genkey liked a lot but is obviously not good in practice.
With this I got a layout with a lot of inrolls, something which I hadn't really seen anywhere else. Later I did find out that it's only a handful of swaps away from balance-12, a fact I was completely oblivious of until much later.
Thoughts
While redirects are low in total, the ones it has are generally pretty terrible: try typing
before
on this for example. There are far more weird patterns than I anticipated, and for
this reason I wouldn't recommend it over many other layouts currently out there.
What I will say is that having n
on consonant hand pinky does show a lot of potential and I
will definitely explore this further since it gives very good redirects and inrolls, to the detriment of
basically nothing. Hands up with its pinky on index and a semimak-like vowel setup would already be a
step at solving some of its current issues for example while keeping the insane inrolls on consonant
hand.
Another thing I noticed about hiea
homerow layouts is that punctuation is always really
nicely accessible, which can be very useful. Something I don't like is how things like .
and ,
can be really far away or on the same fingers as I do all other punct and numbers
with, an issue which these layouts don't have.
Analyzer stats
Dsfb: 7.494%
Finger Speed: 15.384
[1.366, 0.637, 3.109, 1.973, 4.120, 1.697, 1.184, 1.298]
Scissors: 1.335%
Lsbs: 0.965%
Inrolls: 36.017%
Outrolls: 8.646%
Total Rolls: 44.663%
Onehands: 1.510%
Alternates: 32.063%
Alternates (sfs): 9.141%
Total Alternates: 41.204%
Redirects: 1.438%
Redirects Sfs: 0.408%
Bad Redirects: 0.637%
Bad Redirects Sfs: 0.436%
Total Redirects: 2.919%
Bad Sfbs: 0.410%
Sft: 0.009%