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0 pointsCanaryLayout2y ago0 comments

Let's go into why P is on the wrong side of the board in Workman (and in QWERTY, too). It is true that P is a vowel-hugging consonant. A distance analyzer that the creator of Workman used to look at travel distance would of course conclude that it should be one with the vowels.

But look how often P shows up as a double letter, which stops you from rolling the keys because of the double-strike: opposition oppression stopping appendage application applying appreciate --- there's a lot.

So in Workman the word PEOPLE is a painful SFB-fiesta, and that is a Top 200 word in English, and it does not feel good at all! That's because P needs to be opposite of the vowel cluster, not just because of PEOPLE, but because you need to use one hand to take care of the double-letter strike while the other hand is setting up the vowel cluster roll that is coming.

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000ooo0002y ago· 1 in thread

>But look how often P shows up as a double letter, which stops you from rolling the keys because of the double-strike: opposition oppression stopping appendage application applying appreciate --- there's a lot.

Why isn't the location of a letter commonly struck twice only a problem when the finger used to strike the letter is also used for preceding and following letters? E.g. 'stopping' in Workman has right ring finger hit all of 'opp' which, yes, isn't great, but that's the only example I can think of - *opp* words.

CanaryLayoutOP2y ago

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double letters stop the rolling action, and P is one of the biggest offenders. Putting P next to a vowel cluster does nothing for rolls. It makes more sense to swap to the other side of the board so while you are dealing with whatever P is doing, your other hand is teeing up the rolling keys that will start after P.

For instance: application. In Canaria your roll would look like this, with the keys being rolled in [brackets]

opp[ortun][ity]

Or, if you're slower:

opp[or][tuni][ty]

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