QMK/keyboards/planck/keymaps/tom

tomholford's layout

This layout is data-driven: I installed WhatPulse a few months ago and generated a heatmap of the most frequently used keys. I also optimized for my most-used programming languages, and muscle memory.

Changes from Default

QWERTY

• swap escape and tab
• rearrange arrows in original layout
• swap rshift and Enter
• map / to original location of left arrow key

RAISE

• move backslash to backspace
• map quote to original location from qwerty layer
• map brightness up / down to original location of left and up arrows
• map volume up / down to original location of down and right arrows

LOWER

• move pipe to backspace
• map quote to original location from qwerty layer
• map brightness up / down to original location of left and up arrows
• map volume up / down to original location of down and right arrows

ADJUST

• map to esc key: screenshot region to clipboard - an alias for ctrl + cmd + shift + 4

RGB LED

• Illuminate when pressing RAISE, LOWER, or ADJUST (source)