'Zoinx' 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	zoinx.en.matrix
Form factor	Slab : Matrix
'Author'	Amuseum 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	No
Conventional home keys, fingering, Space, Enter, Shifts, AltGr	No
Maintains QWERTY ZXCV	No
Maintains Colemak punctuation	No
Vowel hand	Left
Vowels and tricky characters	Left hand: AEIORUaeioru	Right hand: CHLWYchlwy

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Scores

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

Metric	Percentage
Finger-based metrics	67.61
Word-based metrics	87.17
English	63.63
Code	79.85
Proglish	71.30
Words metric for no same-finger	87.17
Overall score	74.13

All layouts (711)

Metric	Lowest	Lowest score	zoinx.en.matrix score	Highest	Highest score
Fingers	noel.en.ansi	26.61	67.61	vckb2.en.ergodox	98.50
Words	noel.en.ansi	18.21	87.17	snth.en.matrix	100.00
Average	noel.en.ansi	23.81	74.13	vckb2.en.ergodox	97.42

Overview compared to all other layouts

zoinx.en.matrix ANSI layouts Ergo layouts

All Ergo (133)

Metric	Lowest	Lowest score	zoinx.en.matrix score	Highest	Highest score
Fingers	qwerty.en.ergodox	41.72	67.61	vckb2.en.ergodox	98.50
Words	neo2-us.en.ergodox	65.23	87.17	snth.en.matrix	100.00
Average	qwerty.en.ergodox	51.25	74.13	vckb2.en.ergodox	97.42

Overview compared to all other Ergo layouts

zoinx.en.matrix Ergo layouts

All Ergo, no AltGr (61)

Metric	Lowest	Lowest score	zoinx.en.matrix score	Highest	Highest score
Fingers	qwerty.en.ergodox	41.72	67.61	vckb2.en.ergodox	98.50
Words	qwerty-thumbshift.en.ergodox	70.26	87.17	snth.en.matrix	100.00
Average	qwerty.en.ergodox	51.25	74.13	vckb2.en.ergodox	97.42

Overview compared to all other Ergo layouts, no AltGr

zoinx.en.matrix Ergo layouts, no AltGr

All Ergo, no letters on thumbs (86)

Metric	Lowest	Lowest score	zoinx.en.matrix score	Highest	Highest score
Fingers	qwerty.en.ergodox	41.72	67.61	x1.en.ergodox	90.48
Words	neo2-us.en.ergodox	65.23	87.17	uciea-vanilla.en.ergodox	98.42
Average	qwerty.en.ergodox	51.25	74.13	x1.en.ergodox	92.06

Overview compared to all other Ergo layouts, no letters on thumb

zoinx.en.matrix Ergo layouts, no letters on thumb

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

Metric	Lowest	Lowest score	zoinx.en.matrix score	Highest	Highest score
Fingers	qwerty.en.ergodox	41.72	67.61	hs-indeks.en.ergodox	88.50
Words	qwerty-thumbshift.en.ergodox	70.26	87.17	uciea-vanilla.en.ergodox	98.42
Average	qwerty.en.ergodox	51.25	74.13	hs-indeks.en.ergodox	91.13

Overview compared to all other Ergo layouts, no AltGr or letters on thumbs

zoinx.en.matrix Ergo layouts, no AltGr or letters on thumb

Comparison to other well-known layouts

zoinx.en.matrix colemak-thumbshift.en.ergodox mtgap-thumbshift.en.ergodox dvorak.en.matrix maltron-us-90.en.ergodox qwerty.en.ansi Best Ergo snth.en.matrix vckb2.en.ergodox Worst Ergo azerty.fr.iso neo2-us.en.ergodox

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	zoinx.en.matrix	64.44	65.82	49.42	91.70
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	zoinx.en.matrix	68.25	55.15	67.15	96.66
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	zoinx.en.matrix	66.03	62.84	55.75	92.98
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	zoinx.en.matrix	67.61
Reference	qwerty.en.ansi	44.26

Metric	Lowest	Lowest score	zoinx.en.matrix score	Highest	Highest score
Overall fingers	noel.en.ansi	26.61	67.61	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:

aABbeEHhRrsSTt

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 a that as be at he are her has she there these see three here set

of and to in is was for with on it by i his from had not which have or were an this but you their they all been one will who would more its up can him so out into we when said them about other than time no if some only also first could two my what over such do may me any like then after very most 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 while use last too 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 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
aABbeEHhRrsSTt	358	1403	9	bathsheba

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
aABbeEHhRrsSTt	20049	4021	19	seventeenth-century

Word count
Word length

Word metric comparisons

Metric	Lowest example	Lowest score	zoinx.en.matrix score	Highest example	Highest score
Home keys words	tahan.en.ansi	4	1403	hands-down-platinum-ts.en.ergodox	6068
No same-finger words	noel.en.ansi	840	4021	snth.en.matrix	4613
Words average	noel.en.ansi	18.21 %	87.17 %	snth.en.matrix	100.00 %

Comparison to other layouts

zoinx.en.matrix 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