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I wonder if anyone has ever set out to design the worst possible layout, and if so, what it would look like.


Could be a fun game. For starters I'd move the most useless keys to the index finger home row positions, perhaps pipe and backtick. Then I'd invert the sense of shift, so you have to hold it to type anything lowercase. I'd take all the most common two-letter sequences and I'd move those letters under the weakest finger. So T H E O A R S and N replace the punctuation keys on the right side. This should make it a real hassle to type "the", especially considering that you'll be holding down shift, which should itself be somewhere hard to reach, such as where 6 usually goes.


Can't figure out whether you are a sadist or a masochist but I love how you ran with _that_ particular ball. Kudos to you.



It's worth pointing out that the worst possible layout for keyboards might actually be one of the best possible layouts for phones.




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