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Usage 0.42% (P1)10.78% (P93)16.06% (P95)13.61% (P58)17.2%0.0%18.65% (P99)11.69% (P23)8.55% (P33)3.02% (P13)
Same Finger Full Scissor Half Scissor Lat. Stretch
Bigram 2.73% (P91) 0.11% (P50) 2.48% (P88) 1.43% (P83)
Skipgram 7.42% (P94) 0.43% (P74) 2.32% (P37) 2.35% (P94)
No Thumbs With Thumbs
Weak-ish Redirs. 0.08% (P0) 0.06% (P0)
Weak Redirects 0.07% (P3) 0.03% (P5)
Other Same Finger 29.89% (P92) 19.16% (P92)
Rolls : Alts 1.29 (P12) 1.22 (P5)
2-Roll In : Out 4.32 (P99) 2.30 (P98)
3-Roll In : Out 99.64 (P98) 3.97 (P83)
Author
Xay Voong
Year
2023

BEAKL, short for Balanced Effortless Advancet Keyboard Layout, is an alt layout project first started in 2016. Layouts from the BEAKL family are optimized for very high alternation, high in-rolls, very low out-rolls, and very low redirects. Additionally, BEAKL is unique among contemporary layouts for minimizing pinky usage, even on the home row, and deprioritizing same-finger usage optimization.

According to the official website, the currently recommended versions are 43, T-t 04, T-s 01, and T-r 01.