Maltron Letter Layout Review

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Review of Maltron Letter Layout powered by the Slant community.

Also known as "Malt" for short.

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Pros

Pro
Punctuation is also optimized

The comma and period are more frequent than KVJZXQ.

Pro
E on the thumb

E is the most used English letter by far at almost 13%.

Pro
Highly optimized for frequency of use

This includes di- and tri-graphs, as well as the individual letter frequency.

Cons

Con
Requires a physical keyboard

The Maltron layout requires an expensive physical Maltron keyboard. Most layout options are a simple change in software, to remap existing keys. (Touch typists mostly don't look at the labels anyway.) But there's no way to add the required thumb keys for this layout in software.