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In the future, I hope to include an engaging rationale for why I took on this challenge.
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Suffice to say that I have battled repetitive strain injury since I worked
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on an old DEC workstation at the MIT Media Lab while composing my thesis back in the mid-90s.
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Ever since then I have experimented with different key layouts (Dvorak, Colemak, my own, etc.),
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which place too much stress on tendons, with lateral extension of the index and little fingers,
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Ever since then I have used different key layouts (Dvorak, Colemak, my own, etc.),
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and have primarily used Colemak for almost 10 years. I find that they all place too much stress on tendons, with lateral extension of the index and little fingers,
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and on uniform distribution of finger use, which has damaged my little fingers.
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I have also experimented with a wide variety of human interface technologies
like the Kinesis Advantage. I recently got an Ergodox that I am looking forward
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to trying out with the Engram layout.
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(voice dictation, one-handed keyboard, keyless keyboard, foot mouse, and ergonomic keyboards like the Kinesis Advantage. I recently got an Ergodox that I am looking forward to trying out with the Engram layout.
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**"Engram"?** <br>
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The name is a pun, referring both to "n-gram", letter permutations used to compute
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this layout, and "engram", or memory trace, the postulated change in neural tissue
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to account for the persistence of memory.
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The name is a pun, referring both to "n-gram", letter permutations used to compute this layout, and "engram", or memory trace, the postulated change in neural tissue to account for the persistence of memory.
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## Comparison with other key layouts <aname="comparison">
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