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Neo2 (Classic Neo) Review

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Review of Neo2 (Classic Neo) powered by the Slant community.

The Neo2 layout developed by Hanno Behrens in 2004 is an ergonomically optimized keyboard layout for the German language. It rearranges the letters on the keyboard so the most important ones are on the base row. For example, the vowels [uiae] are on the left, with the most common German consonants [nrtd] on the right.

SpecsUpdate

Left Middle Finger Travel11.2%

Left Little Finger Usage2.8%

Right Ring Finger Travel4.1%

Bottom Row Key Freq.6.1%

Left Ring Finger Travel2.9%

Spacebar Row Key Freq.15.3%

Home Row Key Freq.61.1%

Right Middle Finger Travel5.8%

Right Middle Finger Usage8.2%

Right Index Finger Usage18.3%

Top Row Key Freq.17.5%

Left Index Finger Travel33.5%

Left Ring Finger Usage6.6%

Consecutive Same-Hand Keystrokes (L/R)76.7%/23.3%

Right Little Finger Travel6.7%

Thumb Usage15.3%

Right Little Finger Usage5.9%

Left Middle Finger Usage10.5%

Left Index Finger Usage24.1%

Left Little Finger Travel0.6%

Right Ring Finger Usage8.3%

Right Index Finger Travel35.3%

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Pros

Pro
Best for programming

Easily reachable programming relevant symbols, like {}'()|~"_[]<>, on the third layer.

Pro
Type mathematical symbols natively

Pro
Many layers

You can type more symbols and letters, that do not even exist on other keyboard layouts.

Pro
Its possible to type letters from the International Phonetic Alphabet

Cons

Con
Developed primarly for the German language

English is considered a major target, but the homepage and docs are mostly in German.

Con
Harder to learn

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