Editing Alternative keyboard layouts (section)

=== Arensito ===
{{infobox layout
| name       = Arensito (Simplified)
| image name = Arensito-Simplified-Layout.PNG
| creator    = Håkon Hallingstad
| license    = None
| introduced = 2001 <ref name="arensito-home-page">[http://web.archive.org/web/20160719191845/http://www.pvv.org:80/~hakonhal/main.cgi/keyboard Arensito Home Page]</ref>
| website    = [http://web.archive.org/web/20160719191845/http://www.pvv.org:80/~hakonhal/main.cgi/keyboard pvv.org (archive)]
| top row    = QL.P' ;FUDK
| middle row = ARENB GSITO
| bottom row = ZW,HJ VCYMX
}}

Arensito was released in 2001 by Håkon Hallingstad and is also known as the Hallingstad layout. It was originally made to suit the [[Kinesis_Advantage|Kinesis Contoured]] and two-handed Maltron, though an adaptation for usage on standard keyboard was developed later. The named comes from its home-row as apposed to QWERTY which named from its top row. The design intentions are as follows:

*Places the eight most used characters under your fingertips
*Is the layout that minimizes the probability that you use the same finger twice (in succession)
*Is the layout that maximizes the probability for using neighbor fingers in succession (and keeps the probability of sequences like y-d or z-l diminishingly low). This lets the fingers strike diagraphs and trigraphs extremely fast
*Keep the workload off the pinkies. Both pinkies press a button about 40% less than the other fingers

Some punctuation and programming symbols are placed under the AltGr layer, where they are closer to the fingers' home position.
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