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Finger 123478910
Usage 5.64% (P39)9.81% (P89)11.78% (P58)11.36% (P24)10.58% (P29)15.96% (P87)9.66% (P58)7.98% (P71)
Same Finger Full Scissor Half Scissor Lat. Stretch
Bigram 0.76% (P50) 0.05% (P20) 0.54% (P0) 0.85% (P64)
Skipgram 4.78% (P54) 0.04% (P1) 1.19% (P1) 2.00% (P92)
No Thumbs Left Space Right Space
Weak-ish Redirs. 0.80% (P63) 0.72% (P50) 0.67% (P35)
Weak Redirects 0.05% (P1) 0.02% (P2) 0.02% (P2)
Other Same Finger 18.78% (P48) 12.72% (P57) 12.72% (P57)
Rolls : Alts 1.24 (P8) 1.61 (P40) 1.49 (P43)
2-Roll In : Out 1.06 (P40) 0.85 (P24) 1.28 (P63)
3-Roll In : Out 0.22 (P8) 0.57 (P13) 0.36 (P11)
Author
stronglytyped
Year
2025
Finger Map
Nokwts
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Nokwts is a rowstag-specific layout that introduces a unique fingermap: unlike standard fingering, the left middle handles RLH, and the left index handles FSBWKV. This reduces the overall movement for those fingers and makes it easier to avoid some common SFBs like RL with alt fingering.

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 Nokwts:

    Nokwts

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

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

    Automatically start Kanata (Kanata Guide for Alt Layouts)