'Gelatin' computer keyboard layout

Sections

1. Summary
2. Changes from other layouts
3. Similarity to other layouts
4. Scores
5. Comparison to other well-known layouts
6. Finger based metrics
7. English Word-based analysis
8. Comparison to other layouts (word metrics)
9. English heat map
10. Programming Code (all languages) heat map
11. Most common English bigram pairs
12. Most common Code bigram pairs
13. Typing lessons

Canonical name	gelatin.en.ergodox
Form factor	Split : Ergodox / Kinesis
'Author'	Jarl Stefansson Author data may not be correct, we're working on it.
Keys horizontally staggered	No
Letters on thumb (lower and upper case)	0
Avoids AltGr for standard characters	Yes
Does not move non-character keys (ANSI/ISO)	Yes
Maintains QWERTY 'shift' pairs	No
Maintains QWERTY top row (ANSI/ISO)	Yes
Uppercase on same key	Yes
Conventional home keys, fingering, Space, Enter, Shifts, AltGr	No
Maintains QWERTY ZXCV	No
Maintains Colemak punctuation	No
Vowel hand	Right
Vowels and tricky characters	Left hand: CRWcrw	Right hand: AEHILOUYaehilouy

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Scores

Scores are percentages relative to the best layout for each metric. Rankings not available for this layout

All layouts (711)

Metric	Lowest	Lowest score	gelatin.en.ergodox score	Highest	Highest score
Fingers	noel.en.ansi	26.61		vckb2.en.ergodox	98.50
Words	noel.en.ansi	18.21		snth.en.matrix	100.00
Average	noel.en.ansi	23.81		vckb2.en.ergodox	97.42

All Ergo (133)

Metric	Lowest	Lowest score	gelatin.en.ergodox score	Highest	Highest score
Fingers	qwerty.en.ergodox	41.72		vckb2.en.ergodox	98.50
Words	neo2-us.en.ergodox	65.23		snth.en.matrix	100.00
Average	qwerty.en.ergodox	51.25		vckb2.en.ergodox	97.42

All Ergo, no AltGr (61)

Metric	Lowest	Lowest score	gelatin.en.ergodox score	Highest	Highest score
Fingers	qwerty.en.ergodox	41.72		vckb2.en.ergodox	98.50
Words	qwerty-thumbshift.en.ergodox	70.26		snth.en.matrix	100.00
Average	qwerty.en.ergodox	51.25		vckb2.en.ergodox	97.42

All Ergo, no letters on thumbs (86)

Metric	Lowest	Lowest score	gelatin.en.ergodox score	Highest	Highest score
Fingers	qwerty.en.ergodox	41.72		x1.en.ergodox	90.48
Words	neo2-us.en.ergodox	65.23		uciea-vanilla.en.ergodox	98.42
Average	qwerty.en.ergodox	51.25		x1.en.ergodox	92.06

All Ergo, no AltGr and no letters on thumbs (33)

Metric	Lowest	Lowest score	gelatin.en.ergodox score	Highest	Highest score
Fingers	qwerty.en.ergodox	41.72		hs-indeks.en.ergodox	88.50
Words	qwerty-thumbshift.en.ergodox	70.26		uciea-vanilla.en.ergodox	98.42
Average	qwerty.en.ergodox	51.25		hs-indeks.en.ergodox	91.13

Finger based metrics

Finger based metrics, as determined with Keyboard Layout Analyzer, using KLAnext scoring model, and then normalised to ANSI QWERTY = 100.
Lower is better.

English

Rank	Layout	Score	Distance	SameFinger	SameHand
Best	vckb2.en.ergodox	41.00	41.05	31.93	59.05
This layout	gelatin.en.ergodox	65.11	58.73	65.03	78.05
Reference	qwerty.en.ansi	100.00	100.00	100.00	100.00

Programming code

Rank	Layout	Score	Distance	SameFinger	SameHand
Best	x1_atreus-44-keys.en.ergodox	54.50	34.56	61.28	80.83
This layout	gelatin.en.ergodox	73.36	66.71	76.58	80.23
Reference	qwerty.en.ansi	100.00	100.00	100.00	100.00

Proglish (an 80:20 English:Code mix)

Rank	Layout	Score	Distance	SameFinger	SameHand
Best	vckb2.en.ergodox	47.08	41.50	43.74	64.91
This layout	gelatin.en.ergodox	67.82	60.96	69.27	78.63
Reference	qwerty.en.ansi	100.00	100.00	100.00	100.00

Overall Fingers score (4 * English % + Code % + Proglish %) / 6

Higher is better. Score is out of 100.

Rank	Layout	Percentage
Best	vckb2.en.ergodox	98.50
This layout
Reference	qwerty.en.ansi	44.26

Metric	Lowest	Lowest score	gelatin.en.ergodox score	Highest	Highest score
Overall fingers	noel.en.ansi	26.61		vckb2.en.ergodox	98.50

English Word-based analysis

Home Keys Analysis

The Home Keys for this layout are shown with red dots in the first image above, giving the following letters:

aeinorst

Home key common words

Not part of final score.
Which of the 200 most common words are typeable on the home keys.

Words handled

Words not handled

to a in is as on it i at are not or an one its so into no see too set

the of and that was for with be by his he from had which have were this but you their they her has all been will who would more she up can him out there we when said them about other than time if some only also first could two my what over such do may me any like then after very most these new made your people now between should where years many being our before through much way work those did well down back just even because own little make must good under man used both same how still three while use last life against know year each us get mr take long part off go day might great never found old gbp right another place came during again without come world men end upon think later say few left number away thought until home here small different system though around since often called within always every need went

Home key words

How many of the 30,000 most common words in the English corpus are typeable on the home keys.
Not included in final score ... layouts with letters on thumb have unfair advantage, and it punishes layouts which opt to keep O and U off the home row.

Home Key letters	English words typeable	Score	Longest word	Example
aeinorst	722	3109	13	assassination

Word count
Word length

No same-finger words

How many of the 30,000 most common words in the English corpus can be typed without using the same finger twice.

Home Key letters	English words typeable	Score	Longest word	Example
aeinorst	18688	3777	19	seventeenth-century

Word count
Word length

Word metric comparisons

Metric	Lowest example	Lowest score	gelatin.en.ergodox score	Highest example	Highest score
Home keys words	tahan.en.ansi	4	3109	hands-down-platinum-ts.en.ergodox	6068
No same-finger words	noel.en.ansi	840	3777	snth.en.matrix	4613
Words average	noel.en.ansi	18.21 %	%	snth.en.matrix	100.00 %

Comparison to other layouts

gelatin.en.ergodox colemak-thumbshift.en.ergodox mtgap-thumbshift.en.ergodox dvorak.en.matrix maltron-us-90.en.ergodox qwerty.en.ansi ANSI layouts Ergo layouts Best Ergo hands-down-platinum-ts.en.ergodox snth.en.matrix Worst Ergo neo2-us.en.ergodox azerty.fr.iso

Heat map

English heat map

Programming Code (all languages) heat map

Note: Colour change points are different in the Code heat map due to the different character frequency distribution.

Ten most common English bigram pairs (excluding space and enter)

( er ht eh in an it no en es at)

Ten most common Code bigram pairs (excluding space and enter)

(er in en et ar el es or st at )

Typing lessons

Download some English words suitable for learning the layout.
Note if any files are empty it's because there are not enough words to create a lesson. This is most noticeable in the bad layouts.

Week 1	Homekey words	Day 1	Day 2	Day 3	Day 4	Day 5
Week 2	No same-finger words	Day 1	Day 2	Day 3	Day 4	Day 5
Week 3	Common / tricky words	Day 1	Day 2	Day 3	Day 4	Day 5
Week 4	Pangrams	Day 1	Day 2	Day 3	Day 4	Day 5
Week 5	So you think you can type?	Day 1	Day 2	Day 3	Day 4	Day 5
Week 6	Extra practice 1: Common words in text	Day 1	Day 2	Day 3	Day 4	Day 5
Week 7	Extra practice 2: Lorem ipsum and friends	Day 1	Day 2	Day 3	Day 4	Day 5
Week 8	Extra practice 3: Underused words	Day 1	Day 2	Day 3	Day 4	Day 5
Week 9	Extra practice 4: Commonly misspelled words	Day 1	Day 2	Day 3	Day 4	Day 5