Keyboard Layout Status

Calculates the number of finger movements required to type something using different keyboard layouts.

I was obsessed with different keyboard layouts. Like everyone else, I wanted to find the ULTIMATE keyboard layout. Well, It's not that easy, so I wrote a Python script which takes multiple lines of characters and calculate the finger movements to that is required to type it.

Supported keyboard layouts are

• qwerty
• dvorak
• halmak
• colemak
• workman

Prerequisites

• Python 3

How to use (on Linux)

I have no idea how to use this on other platforms. I will let you figure out that XD

• Clone the project or download kbstatus.py file
• Run the script on text

echo hello | python src/kbstatus/keyboard.py

• On Linux, if you want to run the status on multiple file content, pipe the lines to the file. If you want to get the status from one of your JavaScript projects, use following.

cat <path to project root>/**/*.js | python src/kbstatus/keyboard.py

Sample output

No Movements Needed - No movement needed to type the characters because finger already should be on the key Finger Movements - Need to move the finger before typing Same Finger Use - Same finger is used to type different letters ("lo" in "hello" with qwerty)

|#                   |QWERTY    |DVORAK    |WORKMAN   |HALMAK    |COLEMAK
|No Finger Movements |9786      |21754     |23961     |23961     |26739
|Finger Movements    |32852     |20884     |18677     |18677     |15899
|Same Finger Usage   |3198      |2105      |2062      |2406      |1471
|Up                  |18583     |10014     |9288      |9840      |7183
|Down                |4434      |3216      |5534      |7676      |4434
|Left                |685       |1268      |638       |0         |685
|Right               |1148      |3597      |1148      |0         |1268
|Top Right           |3651      |638       |883       |13        |1148
|Top Left            |638       |773       |142       |0         |142
|Bottom Right        |883       |495       |888       |0         |883
|Bottom Left         |2830      |883       |156       |1148      |156