{"id":728,"date":"2010-03-02T08:49:22","date_gmt":"2010-03-02T03:19:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.prasadgupte.com\/go\/?p=728"},"modified":"2011-03-22T11:44:05","modified_gmt":"2011-03-22T06:14:05","slug":"jargon-fitaly-keyboard-layout","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.prasadgupte.com\/blog\/jargon-fitaly-keyboard-layout\/","title":{"rendered":"Jargon: FITALY Keyboard Layout"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure style=\"width: 277px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/prasadgupte.files.wordpress.com\/2010\/02\/fitaly_layout_1.png\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"FITALY Keyboard Layout\" src=\"http:\/\/prasadgupte.files.wordpress.com\/2010\/02\/fitaly_layout_1.png\" alt=\"FITALY Keyboard Layout\" width=\"277\" height=\"103\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">FITALY Keyboard Layout<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">FITALY is a keyboard layout that places the most commonly-used letters closest to the centre, to minimize finger movement while entering a word. Designed by <a title=\"The Guy who wrote ADA\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Jean_Ichbiah\" target=\"_blank\">Jean Ichbiah<\/a> (<a href=\"http:\/\/patft.uspto.gov\/netacgi\/nph-Parser?patentnumber=5487616\" target=\"_blank\">Patent<\/a>), it is specifically optimized for stylus or touch-based input. The name, FITALY, is derived from the letters occupying the second row in the layout (like QWERTY comes from the 1st row of standard keyboards)<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The aim of the design is to optimize text entry by organizing keys to minimize key-to-key finger movement, allowing faster input through one-finger entry (compared to 10 fingers required to type efficiently on QWERTY layout).\u00a0 As compared to the 3-row QWERTY keyboard, FITALY has 5 rows with atmost 6 letters in a row (as against 10 on QWERTY).<\/p>\n<figure style=\"width: 575px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amstat.org\/publications\/jse\/v16n1\/jernigan.html\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"Letter Frequencies (Courtesy: Amstat.org)\" src=\"http:\/\/www.amstat.org\/publications\/jse\/v16n1\/jernigan_fig1.jpg\" alt=\"Letter Frequencies in the English language\" width=\"575\" height=\"75\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Letter Frequencies in the English language<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><!--more-->Keys are arranged based on individual frequencies of letters in the English language, and the probability of transitions. The ten letters at the very center (i,t,a,l,n,e,d,o,r,s) are used 73% of the times when typing in English and with c,h,u,m added to the list, the number goes up to 84%. Keys are never more than 2 blocks away (vertically, horizontally or diagonally) from the current position. You nearly always find the next likely letter on a key very close to the one you just tapped.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Almost all of the text from this post exists on <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/FITALY\" target=\"_blank\">Wikipedia<\/a>; but that&#8217;s because I updated the Wiki page after my research. Nothing feels better than giving something back to the community \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">More on Letter Frequencies at:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amstat.org\/publications\/jse\/v16n1\/jernigan.html\" target=\"_blank\">Amstat.org: Jernigan&#8217;s Research<br \/>\n<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.absoluteastronomy.com\/topics\/Letter_frequencies\" target=\"_blank\">Absolute Astronomy &#8211; Letter Frequencies<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>FITALY is a keyboard layout that places the most commonly-used letters closest to the centre, to minimize finger movement while entering a word. Designed by Jean Ichbiah (Patent), it is specifically optimized for stylus or touch-based input. The name, FITALY, is derived from the letters occupying the second row in the layout (like QWERTY comes &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.prasadgupte.com\/blog\/jargon-fitaly-keyboard-layout\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Jargon: FITALY Keyboard Layout<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[176],"tags":[299,295,112,304,297,303,301,582,302,300,296,298,306,305,324],"class_list":["post-728","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gadgets","tag-english-language","tag-fitaly","tag-jargon","tag-jean-ichbiah","tag-keyboard","tag-layout","tag-letter-frequency","tag-linkedin","tag-mobile-phones","tag-one-finger-entry","tag-qwerty","tag-statistics","tag-stylus","tag-touch-screen","tag-wikipedia"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prasadgupte.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/728","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prasadgupte.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prasadgupte.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prasadgupte.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prasadgupte.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=728"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.prasadgupte.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/728\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prasadgupte.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=728"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prasadgupte.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=728"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prasadgupte.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=728"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}