'Hoke' computer keyboard layout

Sections

  1. Summary
  2. Changes from other layouts
  3. Similarity to other layouts
  4. Scores
  5. Comparison to other well-known layouts
  6. Finger based metrics
  7. English Word-based analysis
  8. Comparison to other layouts (word metrics)
  9. English heat map
  10. Programming Code (all languages) heat map
  11. Most common English bigram pairs
  12. Most common Code bigram pairs
  13. Typing lessons
Canonical namehoke.en.ansi
Form factorSlab : ANSI
'Author'Hoke (1924)
Author data may not be correct, we're working on it.
Keys horizontally staggeredYes
Letters on thumb (lower and upper case)0
Avoids AltGr for standard charactersYes
Does not move non-character keys (ANSI/ISO)Yes
Maintains QWERTY 'shift' pairsYes
Maintains QWERTY top row (ANSI/ISO)Yes
Uppercase on same keyYes
Conventional home keys, fingering, Space, Enter, Shifts, AltGrYes
Maintains QWERTY ZXCVNo
Maintains Colemak punctuationNo
Vowel handBoth
Vowels and tricky charactersLeft hand: CHRUWYchruwyRight hand: AEILOaeilo

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hoke.en.ansi


Download the Keyboard Layout Analyzer .json file.
Download the Computer install files for Linux, MacOS and Windows (Untested ALPHA/BETA. Use at own risk. Includes ahk, keylayout, klc, pkl, tmk, xkb).

Changes from QWERTY (1873)

hoke.en.ansi

Changes from Modified Blickensderfer (1892 / 2012)

hoke.en.ansi

Changes from Dvorak (1936)

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Changes from Colemak (2006)

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Changes from MTGAP (2012)

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Changes from HIEAMTSRN (2014)

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Changes from Uciea Vanilla (2021)

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Changes from Poqtea-qp (Autogenerated, 2021)

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Similarity

AncestorScore
QWERTY (1873)
Modified Blickensderfer (1892 / 2012)
Dvorak (1936)
Colemak (2006)
MTGAP (2012)
HIEAMTSRN (2014)
Uciea Vanilla (2021)
Poqtea-qp (2021)
Maximum

Hoke is most similar to

LayoutScore
vas_keys.en.ansi11.50
cmbk-nlhy-2.en.ansi11.50
apt3-am.en.ansi11.25
phonkie.en.ansi11.25
ctgap-final.en.ansi11.25
flame.en.ansi10.75
heartae.en.ansi10.50
apt3.en.ansi10.50
rtnsg.en.ansi10.25
trendei.en.ansi10.25

Hoke is least similar to

LayoutScore
ward.en.ansi2.75
real.en.ansi3.00
93fk_optimal.en.ansi3.00
klausler.en.ansi3.00
full-157_64-17e2a0.en.ansi3.25
beakl421-mod-ian.en.ansi3.25
widepdk-custom.en.ansi3.25
willems.en.ansi3.25
rowell.en.ansi3.25
14-maks.en.ansi3.25

Scores

Scores are percentages relative to the best layout for each metric.
MetricPercentage
Finger-based metrics45.25
Word-based metrics71.52
English41.96
Code55.39
Proglish48.26
Words metric for no same-finger71.52
Overall score54.01

All layouts (675)

MetricLowestLowest scorehoke.en.ansi scoreHighestHighest score
Fingersnoel.en.ansi26.6145.25
vckb2.en.ergodox98.50
Wordsnoel.en.ansi18.2771.52
full-r2-rt162_25-2ec2c1.en.ansi100.00
Averagenoel.en.ansi23.8354.01
vckb2.en.ergodox97.54

Overview compared to all other layouts

hoke.en.ansi hoke.en.ansi

ANSI layouts

Ergo layouts

All ANSI/ISO (551)

MetricLowestLowest scorehoke.en.ansi scoreHighestHighest score
Fingersnoel.en.ansi26.6145.25
full-maks-minimo.en.ansi74.58
Wordsnoel.en.ansi18.2771.52
dilbert.en.ansi100.00
Averagenoel.en.ansi23.8354.01
full-maks-minimo.en.ansi81.89

Overview compared to all other ANSI/ISO layouts

hoke.en.ansi hoke.en.ansi

ANSI layouts

Conventional ANSI/ISO (390)

MetricLowestLowest scorehoke.en.ansi scoreHighestHighest score
Fingersnoel.en.ansi26.6145.25
g-ansi-maks.en.ansi68.71
Wordsnoel.en.ansi18.2771.52
full-r2-rt162_25-2ec2c1.en.ansi100.00
Averagenoel.en.ansi23.8354.01
g-ansi-maks.en.ansi77.53

Overview compared to all other Conventional ANSI layouts

hoke.en.ansi hoke.en.ansi

Conventional ANSI layouts

Conventional ANSI/ISO + QWERTY shift pairs (342)

MetricLowestLowest scorehoke.en.ansi scoreHighestHighest score
Fingersnoel.en.ansi26.6145.25
g-ansi-maks.en.ansi68.71
Wordsnoel.en.ansi18.2771.52
full-r2-rt162_25-2ec2c1.en.ansi100.00
Averagenoel.en.ansi23.8354.01
g-ansi-maks.en.ansi77.53

Overview compared to all other Conventional ANSI with QWERTY shift pairs layouts

hoke.en.ansi hoke.en.ansi

Conventional ANSI with QWERTY shift pairs layouts

Comparison to other well-known layouts

hoke.en.ansi hoke.en.ansi

colemak.en.ansi

mtgap.en.ansi

workman.en.ansi

dvorak.en.ansi

norman.en.ansi

qwerty.en.ansi

Best ANSI

full-maks-minimo.en.ansi

dilbert.en.ansi

Worst ANSI

noel.en.ansi

Finger based metrics

Finger based metrics, as determined with Keyboard Layout Analyzer, using KLAnext scoring model, and then normalised to ANSI QWERTY = 100.
Lower is better.

English

RankLayoutScoreDistanceSameFingerSameHand
Bestvckb2.en.ergodox41.0041.0531.9359.05
This layouthoke.en.ansi97.7275.25115.20107.68
Referenceqwerty.en.ansi100.00100.00100.00100.00

Programming code

RankLayoutScoreDistanceSameFingerSameHand
Bestx1_atreus-44-keys.en.ergodox54.5034.5661.2880.83
This layouthoke.en.ansi98.4092.45104.2598.61
Referenceqwerty.en.ansi100.00100.00100.00100.00

Proglish (an 80:20 English:Code mix)

RankLayoutScoreDistanceSameFingerSameHand
Bestvckb2.en.ergodox47.0841.5043.7464.91
This layouthoke.en.ansi97.5580.05111.05105.53
Referenceqwerty.en.ansi100.00100.00100.00100.00

Overall Fingers score (4 * English % + Code % + Proglish %) / 6

Higher is better. Score is out of 100.
RankLayoutPercentage
Bestvckb2.en.ergodox98.50
This layouthoke.en.ansi45.25
Referenceqwerty.en.ansi44.26
MetricLowestLowest scorehoke.en.ansi scoreHighestHighest score
Overall fingersnoel.en.ansi26.6145.25
vckb2.en.ergodox98.50

English Word-based analysis

Home Keys Analysis

The Home Keys for this layout are shown with red dots in the first image above, giving the following letters:

aehinort

Home key common words

Not part of final score.
Which of the 200 most common words are typeable on the home keys.

Words handledWords not handled
the to a in that on it i at he are not or an their her one there into other than no then three too another here of and is was for with as be by his from had which have were this but you they has all been will who would more she its up can him so out we when said them about time if some only also first could two my what over such do may me any like after very most these new made your people now between should where years many being our before through much way work those did well down back just see even because own little make must good under man used both same how still while use last life against know year each us get mr take long part off go day might great never found old gbp right place came during again without come world men end upon think later say few left number away thought until home small set different system though around since often called within always every need went

Home key words

How many of the 30,000 most common words in the English corpus are typeable on the home keys.
Not included in final score ... layouts with letters on thumb have unfair advantage, and it punishes layouts which opt to keep O and U off the home row.

Home Key lettersEnglish words typeableScoreLongest wordExample
aehinort423171111orientation

Word count
Word length

No same-finger words

How many of the 30,000 most common words in the English corpus can be typed without using the same finger twice.

Home Key lettersEnglish words typeableScoreLongest wordExample
aehinort16298328818telecommunications

Word count
Word length

Word metric comparisons

MetricLowest exampleLowest scorehoke.en.ansi scoreHighest exampleHighest score
Home keys wordstahan.en.ansi41711
cahi.en.matrix5445
No same-finger wordsnoel.en.ansi8403288
dilbert.en.ansi4597
Words averagenoel.en.ansi18.27 %71.52 %
full-r2-rt162_25-2ec2c1.en.ansi100.00 %

Comparison to other layouts

hoke.en.ansi hoke.en.ansi

colemak.en.ansi

mtgap.en.ansi

workman.en.ansi

dvorak.en.ansi

norman.en.ansi

qwerty.en.ansi

ANSI layouts

Ergo layouts

Best ANSI

dilbert.en.ansi

bone.en.ansi

Worst ANSI

tahan.en.ansi

noel.en.ansi

Heat map

English heat map

hoke.en.ansi

Programming Code (all languages) heat map

hoke.en.ansi Note: Colour change points are different in the Code heat map due to the different character frequency distribution.

Ten most common English bigram pairs (excluding space and enter)

( er ht eh in an it no en es at)
hoke.en.ansi

Ten most common Code bigram pairs (excluding space and enter)

(er in en et ar el es or st at )
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Typing lessons

Download some English words suitable for learning the layout.
Note if any files are empty it's because there are not enough words to create a lesson. This is most noticeable in the bad layouts.

Week 1Homekey words Day 1 Day 2 Day 3 Day 4 Day 5
Week 2No same-finger words Day 1 Day 2 Day 3 Day 4 Day 5
Week 3Common / tricky words Day 1 Day 2 Day 3 Day 4 Day 5
Week 4Pangrams Day 1 Day 2 Day 3 Day 4 Day 5
Week 5So you think you can type? Day 1 Day 2 Day 3 Day 4 Day 5
Week 6Extra practice 1: Common words in text Day 1 Day 2 Day 3 Day 4 Day 5
Week 7Extra practice 2: Lorem ipsum and friends Day 1 Day 2 Day 3 Day 4 Day 5
Week 8Extra practice 3: Underused words Day 1 Day 2 Day 3 Day 4 Day 5
Week 9Extra practice 4: Commonly misspelled words Day 1 Day 2 Day 3 Day 4 Day 5