KPUY-IOEA layouts

• Step 1: Arrange the most frequent vowels and consonants
• Step 2: Add command shortcut characters
• Step 3: Arrange the remaining letters
• Step 4: Arrange punctuation marks in easy-to-remember places

The Engram layout is a keyboard layout optimized for comfortable touch typing in English created by Arno Klein, with open source code to create other optimized key layouts.

               K  P  U  Y        G  R  D  W  Q
               I  O  E  A        H  T  S  N  J
               V  Z  X  C        L  F  B  M

The Shift key accesses characters (top) that look similar to the numbers:

               !  =  ?  +  $  @  ^  &  %  *
               1  2  3  4  5  6  7  8  9  0

and accesses related but less common punctuation (top):

            `    \    ;    :    {    }    |    _
            '    "    ,    .    (    )    /    -

Swapping the Backspace and Caps lock keys completes the layout:

      ~        !  =  ?  +  $  @  ^  &  %  *  <  >
      #        1  2  3  4  5  6  7  8  9  0  [  ]     Caps

    Tab        K  P  U  Y  '  "  G  R  D  W  Q  -     /
    Back       I  O  E  A  ,  .  H  T  S  N  J        Enter
    Shift      V  Z  X  C  (  )  L  F  B  M           Shift

    Ctrl  Fn  Cmd  Alt     Space     Alt  Ctrl       Arrows