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Finger 123478910
Usage 6.55% (P56)6.96% (P10)14.38% (P90)14.08% (P60)13.82% (P78)10.91% (P18)10.92% (P66)5.14% (P14)
Same Finger Full Scissor Half Scissor Lat. Stretch
Bigram 3.76% (P91) 0.19% (P73) 2.09% (P76) 0.91% (P67)
Skipgram 5.30% (P72) 0.27% (P48) 2.11% (P29) 1.32% (P66)
No Thumbs Left Space Right Space
Weak-ish Redirs. 0.89% (P64) 1.01% (P65) 0.70% (P37)
Weak Redirects 0.48% (P60) 0.23% (P60) 0.23% (P60)
Other Same Finger 26.67% (P90) 18.23% (P90) 18.23% (P90)
Rolls : Alts 1.99 (P71) 2.68 (P80) 1.57 (P49)
2-Roll In : Out 1.35 (P60) 1.15 (P60) 1.18 (P63)
3-Roll In : Out 2.38 (P70) 1.17 (P42) 1.61 (P67)
Author
David Norman
Year
2010
Finger Map
Traditional
Official Website

Norman is a conservative layout, placing a high priority on ease of transition from QWERTY. It keeps 70% of letters on the same fingers as QWERTY. Like Colemak and Workman, Norman preserves the ZXCV cluster for common shortcuts.

Since 2013, Norman has been included in xkeyboard-config, making it available by default on most Linux distributions.

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