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Finger 123478910
Usage 7.20% (P87)7.23% (P18)12.70% (P71)13.17% (P55)13.93% (P76)11.11% (P18)11.07% (P71)6.36% (P27)
Same Finger Full Scissor Half Scissor Lat. Stretch
Bigram 2.30% (P89) 0.07% (P33) 3.01% (P94) 0.24% (P7)
Skipgram 4.83% (P56) 0.51% (P88) 3.62% (P97) 1.16% (P55)
No Thumbs Left Space Right Space
Weak-ish Redirs. 0.31% (P19) 0.27% (P4) 0.82% (P58)
Weak Redirects 0.53% (P64) 0.25% (P67) 0.25% (P67)
Other Same Finger 23.31% (P87) 15.52% (P87) 15.52% (P87)
Rolls : Alts 1.34 (P16) 1.38 (P22) 1.82 (P81)
2-Roll In : Out 1.54 (P58) 1.51 (P74) 1.09 (P44)
3-Roll In : Out 0.52 (P18) 0.43 (P5) 3.47 (P76)
Author
Michael Capewell
Year
2005
Finger Map
Traditional
Official Website

Capewell–Dvorak, or C-Dvorak, is a mod of Dvorak that aims to improve some key placements. It restores zxcv to their QWERTY positions and places more common letters in easier-to-reach positions. However, in doing so, it increases SFBs compared to Dvorak.

Capewell–Dvorak is notable for being the first known instance of someone tweaking a layout other than QWERTY.

Install

Section titled “Install”

Kanata is a keyboard remapper that works on Windows, macOS, and Linux.

  1. Install Kanata by following “Step 1: Set Up Kanata” in Nova’s Kanata setup guide:

    Step 1: Set Up Kanata (Kanata Guide for Alt Layouts)

  2. Download the Kanata config file for Capewell–Dvorak:

    Capewell–Dvorak

  3. Make sure you know how to type your computer password using Capewell–Dvorak.

  4. Run Kanata with the downloaded config file and make sure the layout works as you expect: 

    kanata --cfg path/to/config.kbd

  5. To have Capewell–Dvorak activate whenever your computer starts up, follow the instructions to “Automatically start Kanata”:

    Automatically start Kanata (Kanata Guide for Alt Layouts)