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kaievns / keyboard-genetics

keyboard-genetics

An attempt to solve the keyboard layouts efficiency analysis problem

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2Mentions
0Explicit recommenders
141GitHub stars
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What it is

An attempt to solve the keyboard layouts efficiency analysis problem

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Nov 7–Nov 14 UTC · Direct repository links and separately labeled related project stories. Indexed through 11/14/2026, 5:04:57 PM UTC.

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Observed mentions: 2019-11-02 06:01:40 UTC to 2019-11-02 09:54:08 UTC.

012019-11-02 06:00:00 UTC to 2019-11-02 07:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 commentsNov 2, 06:002019-11-02 07:00:00 UTC to 2019-11-02 08:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 commentsNov 2, 07:002019-11-02 08:00:00 UTC to 2019-11-02 09:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2019-11-02 09:00:00 UTC to 2019-11-02 10:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 commentsNov 2, 09:00

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Nov 2, 09:002019-11-02 09:00:00 UTC2019-11-02 10:00:00 UTC101

What Hacker News says

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Neat project, I've wanted to give it a try for a while but never got around to do it, great job ! Interesting that it put the comma at the same place as the bepo [1] ! It obviously recognized that vowels should be placed on the home row on a single hand, it has it on the right hand when dvorak/bepo have them on the left hand. It'd be interesting to train it on code as well and see where it positions the special chars. I personally really like the bepo's choice of putting them on alt_gr+[right_hand_key] as it allows me to reduce finger stretches to hit them, that's what was causing me pain on QWERTY, especially with js, and convinced me to make the move to bepo. I fins lisp is BY FAR the healthiest language when it comes to fingers, though you do need shortcuts to manipulate lisp code sanely. Is the keyboard-gentrics [2] src code the only
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way of knowing how this was designed ? I've skimmed the github page and blog it links but cannot find anything. It looks like its a genetic algorithm ? [1] https://bepo.fr [2] https://github.com/MadRabbit/keyboard-genetics
In Halmak – AI designed keyboard layout
From https://github.com/MadRabbit/keyboard-genetics "I used a series of articles from various online media. I don't have copyrights to provide them with this project, so you will have to use your own source." and "Create the text folder and fill it in with *.txt files which you'd like to use as the test data source. " It would be interesting to see what a layout full of source code/terminal history would generate - although you'd have to take into consideration all variety of autocomplete functionality (tab key usage) in text editors to get accurate input data, not to mention window switching shortcuts etc.
In Halmak – AI designed keyboard layout

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