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by CarVac 1146 days ago
They may be normally distributed, but most people have at least one or two outlier parameters that customization could help with.

Personally I just suggest going to a keyboard meetup and trying out a bunch of ergos and picking the design you find most comfortable.

I lucked into the Mitosis layout in 2017 (literally, I won it in a raffle) and have used it ever since. True endgame.

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Could you show the data this statement is based on?

|most people have at least one or two outlier parameters that customization could |help with.

It's simple statistics. The chance of every parameter not being an outlier is small.

https://www.thestar.com/news/insight/2016/01/16/when-us-air-...

"Even more surprising, when Daniels averaged all his data, the average hand did not resemble any individual’s measurements. There was no such thing as an average hand size."