#typeracer

[plkeyboard]

PLKeyboard Week 0

Hello! I am Phoenix Lightning. You can also find me at the account @phoenixacxf! I am a college student and I am neurodivergent. Today's hyperfixation is keyboard layouts! So, I decided I'm going to start creating my own keyboard layout. This page is so I can document the process. Right now, I am going to be logging everything I write and start creating my layout at the end of the upcoming week. I will make updates every week or so on my commonly used words, letters, bigrams, and digraphs. Every month, I will try to update the PLKeyboard layout. Within this first month, I will update it weekly. I want to show the evolution of the layout as I create it.

I currently main on the Colemak keyboard layout, so I plan on using it most of the time. As I continue to post, and as I continue to create the layout, I might swap to it.

This layout is going to be made specifically for me, hence why I will be calling it the PLKeyboard. I am going to be prioritizing the following things:

The ctrl+z, ctrl+x, ctrl+c, and ctrl+v layouts should be easy to use (as such, the z, x, c, and v keys will stay in the same spots as in QWERTY and Colemak)

I am left handed, as such, I want to prioritize key usage on my left hand.

I want it to be easy to type bigrams and trigrams. Common groups of two and three letters should feel nice to type.

I want to minimize movement across the keys.

I want to prioritize index finger usage.

As I do more testing, these priorities may change and whatnot. I am unsure on if I want to use the middle row as my home row. I am thinking I may want to use the top or bottom row as my home row. I will do ergonomic testing eventually.

Something I will note is that I will also eventually test out split keyboards and other ergonomic modifications to see if I prefer them. This could drastically change how the layout ends up being.

I will probably not start using this layout for a few months, just some minor testing. I only just started on Colemak so I want to continue to use it as well.

Why am I making this? Only because I want to try it out and experiment. I like Colemak over QWERTY, so I want to see if I can find something I like more than Colemak. If this gets enough of a following, I may open a google forms where you all can input your own text samples so that I can start optimizing this for a larger group of people. I want this to work well for Gen Z in that scenario. In this scenario, I would make both a right handed and left handed layout.

Anyways, without further ado, let's show you guys my top ten letters, words, bigrams, and trigrams as judged based on various writings i had on my google drive (that are purely my writing).

My top ten letters are:

E (not surprising)

T (also not surprising)

A

O

I

N

H

S

R

D

My top ten words are:

the (not suprising)

and

to

I

a

he

of

was

you

it

My top ten bigrams are:

TH

HE

AN

IN

RE

ND

ER

ED

EA

ST

My top ten trigraphs are:

THE

AND

ING

HIS

ERE

YOU

HAT

THI

STA

FOR

In order to calculate my letters, bigrams, and trigrams, I used this app: https://www.dcode.fr/frequency-analysis

For words, I used this: https://www.online-utility.org/text/analyzer.jsp

So, that's what this stage looks like! Get ready for concept 1 which will come out next week!

[melowco]

new pb of 72 wpm today yayyyy... from consistent 40 wpm-er i count as a win (also nice race number.)

[yanzinator]

I was playing typerace when this quote just fucking came in and destroyed my focus

from How I Met My Wife by Jack Winter

It had been a rough day, so when I walked into the party I was very chalant, despite my efforts to appear gruntled and consolate. I was furling my wieldy umbrella for the coat check when I saw her standing alone in a corner. She was a descript person, a woman in a state of total array. Her hair was kempt, her clothing shevelled, and she moved in a gainly way.

I had to type all that with the grammar and punctuation all while ignoring my extreme urge to holy fucking shit

[foryouthegays]

tfw u do 98 wpm but still get second place bc some people r tryhards

[ahiijny]

these tetris kids are scary

shoutout to that one time i won against doremy, andrew, cabo, and blink in typeracer (we dont talk about the other 50 times)

[dgaftilwedie]

shoutout monkeytype.com you're my goat

[silna-pdf]

Fondly remembering computer lab time in early elementary school, when they would put keypad covers on the keyboards and make you do 30 minute lessons on typing without looking at your hands. I thought it was a game activity for the longest time, not an actual lesson that was apart of the class???

[strxnged]

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[rising-blood-moon]

Me prepairing for typerace on pokefarm dot com.

Me: Finally I can put my 80% flygon pair to use :D

53 eggs later

Me:

Me: ...TRAPINCH ISN'T EVEN A DRAGON TYPE TF AM I THINKING!?

[baptism-inblood]

fucking WURM!!!!

[crimeronan]

that typing test reminded me i like playing typing games online. i just entered a random guest competition on typeracer but won so fast it felt kind of meanspirited. gonna investigate to see if they have any ranked competitions instead....

[melowco]

playing typeracer regularly does something to my soul. I love typeracer

[sparkleswap]

BTW IM GONNA BE A LIL INACTIVE FOR A BIT. typerace started on pokefarm (my user is pieceofcake if u wanna hold my eggs) and so im going to be busyyy

[foryouthegays]

tfw ur so incredibly out of practice holy SHIT

[pixiecaps]

wait memory unlocked i had a teacher in middle school thatd give us grades for how well we did on typeracer

[fullmusicbardsquared]

they changed the typerace order so I had to redo my beautiful spreadsheet :[