Friday, February 13, 2015

[tznreqof] 16 keys

Consider using only a subset of the keys on a standard keyboard: the four keys on the home row for each hand, and 4 keys on one of the adjacent rows.  Using only two rows avoids having to make long two-row jumps: qzqzqzqz.

8 per hand so 16 keys total, suitable for hexadecimal, but only by coincidence.

Plus spacebar, which might get remapped to backspace.

It's too bad semicolon is on the home row, or it would have conveniently been all letters.

Much fancier state transition limitations are possible.

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