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Canonical name	workman.en.ansi
Language	English
Form factor	Slab : ANSI
'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

Layout	Score
workman-programmer.en.ansi	27.00
workman-ld.en.ansi	20.50
solemak.en.ansi	16.75
aryo.en.ansi	16.50
acemak1.en.ansi	16.50
jppe.en.ansi	16.50
colemak-jph.en.ansi	16.50
colemak_vcp.en.ansi	16.50
hein-rightshift.en.ansi	16.00
colemak-uk.en.ansi	16.00

Workman is least similar to

Layout	Score
reverse-qwerty.en.ansi	2.25
shz.en.ansi	2.25
gyf-beta.en.ansi	2.50
oiseau.en.ansi	2.75
another-method-non.en.ansi	2.75
mtgap-hybrid-vanilla.en.ansi	2.75
mtgap-mod-joey2216.en.ansi	2.75
noname-30.en.ansi	3.00
mtgap-lering.en.ansi	3.00
lumin.en.ansi	3.00

Scores

Scores are percentages relative to the best layout for each metric.

Metric	Percentage
Finger-based metrics	57.71
Word-based metrics	82.83
English	56.87
Code	58.89
Proglish	59.89
Words metric for no same-finger	82.83
Overall score	66.08

All layouts (479)

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	17.36	82.83	lumin.en.ansi	100.00
Average	noel.en.ansi	24.34	66.08	maks-ex.en.ergodox	98.00

All ANSI (361)

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	17.36	82.83	lumin.en.ansi	100.00
Average	noel.en.ansi	24.34	66.08	full-maks-minimo.en.ansi	83.71

Conventional ANSI (269)

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	17.36	82.83	lumin.en.ansi	100.00
Average	noel.en.ansi	24.34	66.08	uciea-gcsv.en.ansi	79.86

Conventional ANSI + QWERTY shift pairs (228)

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	17.36	82.83	lumin.en.ansi	100.00
Average	noel.en.ansi	24.34	66.08	uciea-gcsv.en.ansi	79.86

Comparison to other layouts

workman.en.ansi

colemak.en.ansi

mtgap.en.ansi

workman.en.ansi

dvorak.en.ansi

norman.en.ansi

qwerty.en.ansi

Best ANSI

full-maks-minimo.en.ansi

lumin.en.ansi

Worst ANSI

noel.en.ansi

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	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
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
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
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

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

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