First keeb soldered, second keeb soldered too, third keeb designed, 3D printed and handwired 😅

To be fair I wasn’t using a good tool. Keybr is bad and actually harming progress. Instead of helping you learning your layout, it gets stuck on 1 or 2 letters indefinitely, never letting you progress because they’re never good enough. I spent so much time on 3 letters that now I confuse them all the time, whereas other, almost unused letters are really solid.

I’m done with the frustration now. I’m slow as fuck, but at least I kinda know my layout now and I can progress. I can be a fast learner, but for muscle memory stuff, I really suck. I could never learn touch typing because my hybrid technique is actually decent (~50-55 WPM 100% accuracy), so if I wanted to save my neck and my back in the long term, I needed a ‘big bang’.

I believe any language is fine but you’re right, key frequencies are very different.

Thank you :)

Yes. With some compromises made for English. I mostly type in English anyway, but communicate exclusively in French at work.

Ça commence à marcher pour certaines lettres que j’arrive à taper sans réfléchir, la sensation est assez incroyable en effet 😅

Pour l’instant quasiment chaque frappe est encore un effort conscient et délibéré, surtout après une erreur.

I called it the BYPOK layout 😅

Basically heavily based on BÉPO (especially the home row and most of the top row), with a bit of Colemak sprinkled in, and a few letters shuffled based on frequency in both French and English (French taking precedence in case of conflict).

Bépo’s main limitation is that it requires at least a 60% sized keyboard. All French accented letters are directly accessible. That’s near but not feasible with a smaller keyboard. So I kept É and À, which are very common, on the main layer and moved the other accented letters below their unaccented counterpart. It’s mostly OK because these letters are quite infrequent anyway.

Now that I’m starting to get used to it, it’s not a bad layout at all. Some digraphs are a bit inefficient, but 99% of the time it seems fine.

Merci ! Déjà là ça va mieux même si je suis péniblement à 10-13WPM.

Pas de nom particulier à part ErgoMechKeyboardV3 🤣

Thanks :)

I know. I do not aim for speed. I’m too old for this. I just aim for proficiency.

This is what I’m doing right now. Hence my very short replies.

Thank you for your kind words.

Sometimes I feel I lost most of my brain plasticity with age…

Some type of bépo-colemak hybrid I made up. bépo needs way too many keys for a corne style board, colemak is really bad for french.

Blursed.

The thing is, I’m already super slow. 30 wpm with the 6 most common keys, less than prolly 5 wpm full keyboard.

When learning Colemak I therefore switched to https://first20hours.github.io/keyzen-colemak for which exist many forks, probably also for your layout. Makes you type the letters, learning one after the other. If you mistype, it has you type the wrongly pressed and missed key repeatedly correct before it proceeds to the next letter.

Wow thank you!! I was finally able to drill the entire keyboard after less than an hour and already feel a little less uncomfortable…

I feel keybr is actually much more damaging than helpful. The keys that I drilled the most (I, S and R) are the ones I feel the least comfortable with. I keep mixing them up.