Comment by tomlu

All my keys are on alpha keys, so pretty close to the home row. No worse that typing letters.

As an aside, I developed my "snap" layout using a genetic algorithm run over the corpus of my programming career, then shifted around for aesthetic taste. It's served me well for more than ten years.

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