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Finger 123478910
Usage 6.93% (P78)7.94% (P33)10.76% (P34)13.53% (P60)10.01% (P21)13.55% (P66)12.05% (P76)8.01% (P76)
Same Finger Full Scissor Half Scissor Lat. Stretch
Bigram 0.38% (P5) 0.29% (P90) 2.01% (P76) 0.86% (P65)
Skipgram 4.46% (P40) 0.32% (P61) 2.67% (P61) 0.67% (P11)
No Thumbs Left Space Right Space
Weak-ish Redirs. 1.04% (P75) 1.05% (P74) 1.02% (P76)
Weak Redirects 0.13% (P15) 0.06% (P15) 0.06% (P15)
Other Same Finger 16.85% (P15) 11.67% (P29) 11.67% (P29)
Rolls : Alts 1.45 (P37) 1.85 (P47) 1.56 (P53)
2-Roll In : Out 0.95 (P28) 0.87 (P27) 0.99 (P19)
3-Roll In : Out 0.21 (P7) 0.57 (P11) 0.23 (P1)
Author
NotGate
Year
2021
Finger Map
Traditional

Whorf is notable for being close to the theoretical SFB minimum for standard keyboards. It is not used in practice because it makes big sacrifices in other desirable properties, such as weak redirects and scissors, in order to minimize SFBs.

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 Whorf:

    Whorf

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

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

    Automatically start Kanata (Kanata Guide for Alt Layouts)