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Layer 0, always on: QWERTY with home-row mods, and the thumbs doing the rest.
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What’s on it
- Home-row mods: S Alt, D Ctrl, F Shift on the left; J Shift, K Ctrl, L Alt on the right. Same finger, same modifier on both hands. Tap for the letter, hold for the modifier; the rules that keep fast typing from firing them are on Home-row mods & timing.
- Left thumb:
mo(SYS|NUM)·F11·GUI·mo(NAV)·Backspace. - Right thumb:
Space·mo(CODE)·Caps Word·F12, or AltGr when held ·mo(MEDIA). - Joystick: volume up and down, play/pause, next track, and mute on the centre press: media without holding a layer. Position 52 is a second Mute key.
- Encoder: volume. Editable live in Studio.
- Delete is
mo(CODE)+Backspace: hold CODE with the right thumb, tap Backspace with the left. Two hands, no hold-tap.
AltGr sits on the thumb rather than on a letter key, so accented letters (AltGr+E, AltGr+O) are reachable with either hand, and fast typing doesn’t turn a letter into AltGr.
Getting to the other layers
Hold mo(NAV) or mo(SYS|NUM) with the left thumb, mo(CODE) or
mo(MEDIA) with the right. The game layers start from SYS|NUM; see
Gaming layers.