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Hands Down™ Reference

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Finger 123478910
Usage 4.57% (P22)8.68% (P70)12.84% (P75)16.06% (P86)9.42% (P8)16.42% (P92)7.26% (P7)7.52% (P48)
Same Finger Full Scissor Half Scissor Lat. Stretch
Bigram 0.93% (P63) 0.19% (P76) 1.27% (P39) 1.97% (P96)
Skipgram 6.17% (P89) 0.49% (P84) 2.67% (P62) 1.20% (P58)
No Thumbs Left Space Right Space
Weak-ish Redirs. 0.50% (P33) 0.44% (P15) 0.40% (P15)
Weak Redirects 0.05% (P2) 0.03% (P2) 0.03% (P2)
Other Same Finger 21.48% (P74) 14.48% (P80) 14.48% (P80)
Rolls : Alts 1.50 (P47) 2.03 (P59) 1.59 (P58)
2-Roll In : Out 1.06 (P39) 0.93 (P34) 1.12 (P49)
3-Roll In : Out 0.87 (P34) 0.97 (P30) 0.64 (P28)
Author
R. Alan Reiser
Year
2020
Finger Map
Traditional
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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 Hands Down™ Reference:

    Hands Down™ Reference

  3. Make sure you know how to type your computer password using Hands Down™ Reference.

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

    Automatically start Kanata (Kanata Guide for Alt Layouts)