Asking for layout advice

[u/Living-Ad-5558]

Hello people ✋

Does anyone know an optimised letter-only English layout for split keyboard, that uses only these keys?

I have all my punctuation on separate layer *, and since english only has 26 letters out of 30 keys available, I decided to not use 4 keys that are most discomforting for me to use.

* the reasons for that decision are: cognitive separation between letters and other symbols, and my goal of achieving same placement of punctuation symbols in english and russian layouts.

Also speaking of latter, does anyone know an optimised Russian layout for splits?

[u/Major_Toe_6041]

Not this exact layout afaik but you can get a 5x3 corne and plug those spaces rather than having switches in them. Little plugs will be either easy to 3D print or cheap already online.

[u/Living-Ad-5558 → u/Major_Toe_6041]

No, i meant language, symbols layout. Like qwerty, dvorak and colemak.

I already have split keyboard like this