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Carpalx QGMLWY vs Neo2 (Classic Neo)

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When comparing Carpalx QGMLWY vs Neo2 (Classic Neo), the Slant community recommends Neo2 (Classic Neo) for most people. In the question“What are the best keyboard layouts for programming?” Neo2 (Classic Neo) is ranked 7th while Carpalx QGMLWY is ranked 15th. The most important reason people chose Neo2 (Classic Neo) is:

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

Specs

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Bottom Row Key Freq.6.1%

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

Home Row Key Freq.61.1%

Left Index Finger Travel33.5%

Left Index Finger Usage24.1%

Left Little Finger Travel0.6%

Left Little Finger Usage2.8%

Left Middle Finger Travel11.2%

Left Middle Finger Usage10.5%

Left Ring Finger Travel2.9%

Left Ring Finger Usage6.6%

Right Index Finger Travel35.3%

Right Index Finger Usage18.3%

Right Little Finger Travel6.7%

Right Little Finger Usage5.9%

Right Middle Finger Travel5.8%

Right Middle Finger Usage8.2%

Right Ring Finger Travel4.1%

Right Ring Finger Usage8.3%

Spacebar Row Key Freq.15.3%

Thumb Usage15.3%

Top Row Key Freq.17.5%

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Common Questions

What are the best keyboard layouts for programming?

Carpalx QGMLWY

Neo2 (Classic Neo)

Pros

Pro
Easier to learn than QGMLWB

Keeps the ZXCV key in the same place as the very common QWERTY keyboard layout. More familiar than even than QGMLWB.

Pro
The layout is basically good for most Latin languages

As vowels and consonants are mostly divided between 2 hands and most words in Latin languages are made of 2-letter (consonant+vowel) syllables, the layout keeps it efficiency not only in English, for which it was primarily created, but in other languages too.

Pro
It takes much less effort to type than classical layout

The layout effectively combines not only changing hands methods, and rolling fingers as well, that makes typing a real pleasure.

Pro
About the same score on the carplax test as the QGMLWB variant

See the source here.

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

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Cons

Con
Very unpopular

Even rich on keyboard layouts variety Linux distros like Deepin, offering most of existing layouts, doesn't have this one. The situation on Android is not better, moreover if somebody get used to Swift-like keyboards, that do not have this layout, that person will be forced to have a second (e.g. qwerty) layout in mind.

Con
Not always worth trying

The layout is great only if somebody uses it daily and a lot, like journalists, bloggers, writers do. In this case inconvenience to install the layout is worth use it. If you primarily use your phone/tablet to write some comments in Internet and other tiny writing tasks having such an unpopular layout on just your PC/laptop could be not justified.