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Description

Stronk is essentially the result of me messing around with a lot of different homerow setups around having str as a onehand, eventually circling back to what is pretty close to Sturdy with its indexes swapped. Besides the str constraint I also wanted low sfbs and sfs, preferrably aided by a few obvious sfbs that are easy to alt, which in this case would be primarily nk, my which if alted account for about 1/4th of all sfbs, and optionally bv and ph. I also wanted low bot row usage on non-index fingers, which due to how the layout fit together meant it basically has no usage there at all.

I chose for the `oa eu i` vowel block because that's what I prefer, it's totally fine to use `oe ui a` or `eu oa i`, though in those cases it might be worth it to swap g and w. Doing something similar to Sturdy with the ji, pinky in this case isn't really possible unless you want to deal with lr. or sfbs with ' on right index so ,i. rather than anything unique in my opinion is the way to go.

Creation

This layout as I said came from me trying different things while keeping str on the homerow, which ended up becoming Stronk. I initially tried to create layouts with `vs dt lrm` on left pinky, ring and middle but due to the rm sfb and the way m interacted with b, I didn't end up sticking with it even though I think these layouts were quite good.

The thing to change my mind ended up being the fact akl member ec0vid reminded me that putting m on the vowel index actually works surpringly well, minus the my sfb. There are obviously quite a few words with my or ym in it (it's about 0.12% sfbs total), but because simply my accounts for like 2/3rds of that I decided that this was still the superior spot, rather than keeping it with lr.

This did mean that I had to reorder the left hand a bit because I needed to take either p, g or w off right hand due to the addition of m. w and g weren't an option as they don't fit any of the columns and p fit pretty well on index next to p as that's its most common sfb there. With an extra letter on left index I now also had to decide whether or not to having 6 >1% usage letters there, which I did end up doing, moving f to pinky. I prefer vs for slightly lower pinky usage/movement but I didn't want to create lsbs with either f or b (or have f so far away in general) so this seemed like the best option.

Thoughts

Honestly really happy with how this turned out and I have started learning it. I think there is very little that sticks out to me at this point, the worst maybe being the w position or br. If those are the only things I end up disliking I will absolutely take that.

Analyzer stats

Sfb:  0.906%
Dsfb: 6.039%
Finger Speed: 14.133
    [1.503, 1.283, 0.888, 3.421, 2.047, 1.517, 1.709, 1.764]
Scissors: 0.682%
Lsbs: 2.042%

Inrolls: 22.589%
Outrolls: 23.110%
Total Rolls: 45.699%
Onehands: 1.988%

Alternates: 30.757%
Alternates (sfs): 6.938%
Total Alternates: 37.695%

Redirects: 3.428%
Redirects Sfs: 1.762%
Bad Redirects: 0.135%
Bad Redirects Sfs: 0.182%
Total Redirects: 5.507%

Bad Sfbs: 0.345%
Sft: 0.012%