When you are drilling new keys but you absolutely do not want to look at the layout map that shows the keys you are supposed to know already.
True that. I’m definitely not promoting “layout of the month” type of thing :D
My first foray into alt layout provided some intuition of what aspects of a layout are important to me personally and how they translate to various metrics. After that I make use of analyzers to evaluate different layouts without physically trying them out. I only transitioned to my current layout after becoming relatively sure – through the analyzers – it’s something I’d stick to. I was mainly talking about this second transition being easier than learning the first one.
Speaking of analyzers, take a look at clemenpine’s keysolve and oxey’s layout playground
There is also an extensive alt layout document compiled by ec0vid.
