Carpalx optimizes keyboard layouts to create ones that require less effort and significantly reduced carpal strain!

Jan 15, 2008 · carpalx keyboard layouts. Installation files for each layout are available for Windows 10 (see instructions below). Layouts (.klc) can also be used directly with PKL. These layouts include only standard character and punctuation keys—international symbols are …

carpalx is a keyboard layout optimizer. Given a training corpus (e.g. English text) and parameters that describe typing effort, carpalx uses simulated annealing to find a keyboard layout to minimize typing effort.

In this section, I'll show how to use carpalx to generate statistics for a keyboard layout (finger/hand/row frequencies, and effort values). A variety of keyboard layouts are defined in etc/keyboards/*conf.

Carpalx optimizes keyboard layouts to create ones that require less effort and significantly reduced carpal strain!