Romak is a new keyboard layout, inspired by Colemak and BEAKL, improved to remove load from pinkies and for typing in Portuguese and English, and for coding.
- Romak is the layout used in the default base layer of my keyboards.
- Romak has a higher SFB rate than Colemak, but lower than Workman, and most of this load goes to the stronger fingers.
- There is a commented out transition path from Qwerty to Romak in the keymap_blocks.h, similar to Tarmak, but moving _ instead of J.
Stevep99's Layout Analyzer Tool was used to compare Romak with Colemak-DH and Qwerty, with Portuguese and English text corpus.
Romak is more balanced to Portuguese than English, so if English is your primary language, it is recommended to swap H with M.
Pinkies will get less load in Romak, by design. This load will go to the ring and middle fingers.
The Colemak mod-DH analysis tool was also used to compare Romak against Colemak-DH and Workman (English text corpus only).
Despite the higher SFB rate, total finger effort is lesser in Romak than in Colemak-DH or Workman.
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