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Finger 123478910
Usage 7.73% (P92)11.48% (P96)8.52% (P10)12.31% (P43)13.25% (P68)12.84% (P47)9.16% (P51)7.48% (P45)
Same Finger Full Scissor Half Scissor Lat. Stretch
Bigram 1.02% (P71) 0.11% (P55) 4.40% (P98) 0.18% (P4)
Skipgram 4.85% (P57) 0.67% (P98) 3.32% (P93) 0.49% (P2)
No Thumbs Left Space Right Space
Weak-ish Redirs. 2.22% (P100) 1.69% (P95) 1.32% (P91)
Weak Redirects 2.46% (P100) 1.18% (P100) 1.18% (P100)
Other Same Finger 17.04% (P24) 11.94% (P33) 11.94% (P33)
Rolls : Alts 3.03 (P95) 3.39 (P98) 2.42 (P92)
2-Roll In : Out 0.96 (P32) 1.10 (P53) 0.76 (P2)
3-Roll In : Out 0.82 (P29) 0.84 (P25) 0.59 (P23)
Author
Michael Capewell
Year
2005
Finger Map
Traditional
Official Website

Capewell is an early example of an “evolved” layout, evidently inspired by Klausler’s evolutionary methodology but with a tweaked fitness function that accounts for half-scissors and lateral stretches. It achieved an excellent SFB% for its time, coming in slightly behind Arensito.

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 the desired version of Capewell:

    Capewell (“Close Keys” 0.9.3)
    Capewell (0.9.2)
    Capewell (0.9.1)

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

  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 activate whenever your computer starts up, follow the instructions to “Automatically start Kanata”:

    Automatically start Kanata (Kanata Guide for Alt Layouts)