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15 changes: 4 additions & 11 deletions docs/CharaChorder One.rst
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Learning the Layout
-------------------

The default CharaChorder layout, which we will refer to as the CC English layout, has been designed to favor bigrams and trigrams commonly used in the English language while making the letters accessible for a logical choice of :doc:`lexical chords<Chords>`. You can find the quick reference guide for the layout below, and :ref:`read about how the layout was designed, here <Layout:Design of the layout>`.

.. note::
General consensus amongst the community is that, while not perfect,
the letter arrangement of the default layout is good enough that further modifications would provide very little benefit
considering 500+ WPM have been reached in peak conditions.

**Most commonly only special character and number placement is changed**, for example to benefit coding.

Some exceptions include optimizing for VIM bindings, though people have successfully used the default layout for VIM as well
and benefits of such modifications are debatable.
On the default CC English layout, all 26 letters are accessible without moving your hands from the home position.

You can find the quick reference guide below, and :ref:`read about how the layout was designed, here <Layout:Design of the layout>`.

.. _CCEnglish Layout:
.. image:: /assets/images/CCEnglish.png
:width: 1200
:alt: CC English Layout

Ready to start learning? Start your training on `DOT I/O <https://www.iq-eq.io/#/>`__!

Layers
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15 changes: 4 additions & 11 deletions docs/CharaChorder Two.rst
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Learning the Layout
-------------------

The default CharaChorder layout, which we will refer to as the CC English layout, has been designed to favor bigrams and trigrams commonly used in the English language while making the letters accessible for a logical choice of :doc:`lexical chords<Chords>`. You can find the quick reference guide for the layout below, and :ref:`read about how the layout was designed, here <Layout:Design of the layout>`.

.. note::
General consensus amongst the community is that, while not perfect,
the letter arrangement of the default layout is good enough that further modifications would provide very little benefit
considering 500+ WPM have been reached in peak conditions.

**Most commonly only special character and number placement is changed**, for example to benefit coding.

Some exceptions include optimizing for VIM bindings, though people have successfully used the default layout for VIM as well
and benefits of such modifications are debatable.
On the default CC English layout, all 26 letters are accessible without moving your hands from the home position.

You can find the quick reference guide below, and :ref:`read about how the layout was designed, here <Layout:Design of the layout>`.

.. _CCEnglish Layout:
.. image:: /assets/images/CCEnglish2.png
:width: 1200
:alt: CC English Layout

Ready to start learning? Start your training on `DOT I/O <https://www.iq-eq.io/#/>`__!

Layers
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14 changes: 14 additions & 0 deletions docs/Layout.rst
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Layout
======

Layout Philosophy
-----------------

The default CC English layout is optimized around common letter pairs and triplets in English (bigrams and trigrams: 'er', 'at', 'ing'), so frequent words feel effortless to type and supports logical :doc:`lexical chords<Chords>`.

Design of the layout
--------------------

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8. Analyze the weaknesses and strengths of your layout, then create a hypothesis of what could be changed within your seed to improve the total rating of all your bigrams, trigrams, and chords.
9. Shuffle your seed based on your hypothesis and repeat steps 5-9 until you are no longer able to improve upon your score

Community Consensus
-------------------

The consensus is the default letter arrangement is effective as-is, with 500+ WPM achieved.

**Most commonly only special character and number placement is changed**, for example to benefit coding.

VIM users occasionally customize bindings, but many use the default.

Layout quirks
-------------

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15 changes: 4 additions & 11 deletions docs/Master Forge.rst
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Learning the Layout
-------------------

The default Master Forge layout, which we will refer to as the M4 English layout, has been designed to favor bigrams and trigrams commonly used in the English language while making the letters accessible for a logical choice of :doc:`lexical chords<Chords>`. You can find the quick reference guide for the layout below, and :ref:`read about how the layout was designed, here <Layout:Design of the layout>`.

.. note::
General consensus amongst the community is that, while not perfect,
the letter arrangement of the default layout is good enough that further modifications would provide very little benefit
considering 500+ WPM have been reached in peak conditions.

**Most commonly only special character and number placement are changed**, for example to benefit coding.

Some exceptions include optimizing for VIM bindings, though people have successfully used the default layout for VIM as well
and benefits of such modifications are debatable.
On the default CC English layout, all 26 letters are accessible without moving your hands from the home position.

You can find the quick reference guide below, and :ref:`read about how the layout was designed, here <Layout:Design of the layout>`.

.. _M4English Layout:
.. image:: /assets/images/M4-Layout.png
:width: 1200
:alt: M4 English Layout

Ready to start learning? Start your training on `DOT I/O <https://www.iq-eq.io/#/>`__!

Layers
~~~~~~

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