chocofi wi hybrid

after time with the Chocofi Beakl Wi and the Chocofi Beakl Wi staggered layouts, the winner is..

beakl wi hybrid

This layout combines the above referenced layouts, retaining the top corner ring finger Q and X letters and moving the chorded Colon and Z of the conventional layout to the staggered chorded position. The four letters Q J X V are effectively on their own rows—preserving the strength of the ring finger reach and easing pressing the least frequent glyphs : and z on the layer.

i am certain this doesn’t end here as it has only been a week with the Chocofi keyboard but this layout appears to end the undecided 50:50 preference split held up until now.

As always, YMMV.