Canonical name | workman.en.ansi |
Language | English |
Form factor | Slab : ANSI |
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'Author' | Mat Haverty Author data may not be correct, we're working on it. |
Keys horizontally staggered | Yes |
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 | Yes |
Maintains QWERTY top row (ANSI/ISO) | Yes |
Uppercase on same key | Yes |
Conventional home keys, fingering, Space, Enter, Shifts, AltGr | Yes |
Maintains QWERTY ZXCV | No |
Maintains Colemak punctuation | Yes |
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Changes from QWERTY (1873)
Changes from Modified Blickensderfer (1892 / 2012)
Changes from Dvorak (1936)
Changes from Colemak (2006)
Changes from MTGAP (2012)
Changes from HIEAMTSRN (2014)
Changes from Uciea Vanilla (2021)
Changes from Poqtea-qp (Autogenerated, 2021)
Similarity
Ancestor | Score |
QWERTY (1873) |  |
Modified Blickensderfer (1892 / 2012) |  |
Dvorak (1936) |  |
Colemak (2006) |  |
MTGAP (2012) |  |
HIEAMTSRN (2014) |  |
Uciea Vanilla (2021) |  |
Poqtea-qp (2021) |  |
Maximum |  |
Workman is most similar to
Workman is least similar to
Scores
Scores are percentages relative to the best layout for each metric.
Metric | Percentage |
Finger-based metrics | 57.71 |
Word-based metrics | 83.04 |
English | 56.87 |
Code | 58.89 |
Proglish | 59.89 |
Words metric for no same-finger | 83.04 |
Overall score | 66.15 |
All layouts (458)
Metric | Lowest | Lowest score | workman.en.ansi score | Highest | Highest score |
Fingers | noel.en.ansi | 27.83 | 57.71
 | maks-ex.en.ergodox | 98.54 |
Words | noel.en.ansi | 17.40 | 83.04
 | whorf.en.ansi | 100.00 |
Average | noel.en.ansi | 24.35 | 66.15
 | maks-ex.en.ergodox | 98.08 |
All ANSI (341)
Metric | Lowest | Lowest score | workman.en.ansi score | Highest | Highest score |
Fingers | noel.en.ansi | 27.83 | 57.71
 | full-maks-minimo.en.ansi | 78.62 |
Words | noel.en.ansi | 17.40 | 83.04
 | whorf.en.ansi | 100.00 |
Average | noel.en.ansi | 24.35 | 66.15
 | full-maks-minimo.en.ansi | 83.79 |
Conventional ANSI (258)
Metric | Lowest | Lowest score | workman.en.ansi score | Highest | Highest score |
Fingers | noel.en.ansi | 27.83 | 57.71
 | g-ansi-maks.en.ansi | 72.45 |
Words | noel.en.ansi | 17.40 | 83.04
 | whorf.en.ansi | 100.00 |
Average | noel.en.ansi | 24.35 | 66.15
 | uciea-gcsv.en.ansi | 79.94 |
Conventional ANSI + QWERTY shift pairs (218)
Metric | Lowest | Lowest score | workman.en.ansi score | Highest | Highest score |
Fingers | noel.en.ansi | 27.83 | 57.71
 | g-ansi-maks.en.ansi | 72.45 |
Words | noel.en.ansi | 17.40 | 83.04
 | whorf.en.ansi | 100.00 |
Average | noel.en.ansi | 24.35 | 66.15
 | uciea-gcsv.en.ansi | 79.94 |
Comparison to other layouts
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 |
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Best | maks-ex.en.ergodox | 43.87 | 43.40 | 32.76 | 67.01 |
This layout | workman.en.ansi | 77.14 | 70.61 | 71.92 | 100.62 |
Reference | qwerty.en.ansi | 100.00 | 100.00 | 100.00 | 100.00 |
Programming code
Rank | Layout | Score | Distance | SameFinger | SameHand |
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Best | x1_atreus-44-keys.en.ergodox | 54.50 | 34.56 | 61.28 | 80.83 |
This layout | workman.en.ansi | 92.55 | 90.69 | 92.72 | 95.92 |
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 |
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Best | maks-ex.en.ergodox | 49.22 | 42.49 | 44.78 | 71.55 |
This layout | workman.en.ansi | 82.18 | 76.24 | 79.43 | 99.57 |
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 |
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Best | maks-ex.en.ergodox | 98.54 |
This layout | workman.en.ansi | 57.71 |
Reference | qwerty.en.ansi | 46.53 |
Metric | Lowest | Lowest score | workman.en.ansi score | Highest | Highest score |
Overall fingers | noel.en.ansi | 27.83 | 57.71
 | maks-ex.en.ergodox | 98.54 |
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:
aehinost
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 |
the to a in that is as on it i his at he not an this has one she its so into than no then these those see too set | of and was for with be by from are had which have or were but you their they her all been will who would more up can him out there we when said them about other time if some only also first could two my what over such do may me any like after very most new made your people now between should where years many being our before through much way work 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 |
aehinost | 465 | 1821 | 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 |
aehinost | 20326 | 1317 | 19 | seventeenth-century |
Word count |  |
Word length |
Word metric comparisons
Metric | Lowest example | Lowest score | workman.en.ansi score | Highest example | Highest score |
Home keys words | tahan.en.ansi | 4 | 1821
 | cahi.en.matrix | 5445 |
No same-finger words | noel.en.ansi | 276 | 1317
 | whorf.en.ansi | 1586 |
Words average | noel.en.ansi | 17.40 % | 83.04 %
 | whorf.en.ansi | 100.00 % |
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.