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# callum’s planck layout
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This is a layout for the grid planck, built with a few ideals in mind:
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- Consistent and minimal response times should be maintained. Keys that react
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differently depending on whether they are tapped or held, keys that react
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differently if they are double tapped, etc. should be avoided – they
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inevitably send their keycode later than a normal key – interrupting the
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immediate feedback from the screen. Therefore we restrict ourselves to
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chording as our only means of getting more than one symbol out of a single
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physical key.
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- The hands should never need to leave the home position. The usual culprit for
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this is the arrow cluster, so the arrow cluster should be as close to home as
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possible.
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- There should be two of every modifier (one on each side), otherwise certain
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long key combinations become hard to make.
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- It should be possible to do things you might want to do while using the mouse
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with only the left hand (e.g. change tabs, navigate back or forwards in
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browser history).
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- Symbols should be arranged so that the most frequently used are easiest to
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reach. This includes numbers, and lower numbers are more commonly used than
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higher ones. (number arrangement borrowed from [dustypomeleau’s minidox
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layout][]).
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[dustypomeleau’s minidox layout]: https://github.com/qmk/qmk_firmware/tree/master/keyboards/minidox/keymaps/dustypomerleau
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[keymap.c]: keymap.c
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