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Re: chording keyboard layout

From: Mark Willis <>
Date: Sun, 05 Jul 1998 11:09:57 -0700

A Dvorzak style twiddler layout?  Interesting thought, harder to learn
at first though!  From what I've seen, Omar copied the Twiddler grid
(but I haven't really looked yet, printed it but haven't gotten to it
yet.)

  Mark, 

 wrote:
> 
> I just took a look at the chording keyboard layout of the
> Keydler/Twiddler/etc as listed by Omar Jenkins. It appears that this
> layout is a straight grid with the letters laid out in alphabetical order.
> It seems to me that laying the keys out in a usage-frequency order would
> be more effecient, if harder to learn. Any thoughts on this?
> 
> Paul Archer
> 
> PS. I'm not intending to pick on you, Omar. Just curious...
> 
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