Extend Extra Extreme: keyboard extend layer mappings

Colemak is great, I recommend it.<p>The Extend Layer is layout agnostic, and a total game changer.<p>Give it a try, and enjoy enhanced, comfortable and fluid text editing and navigation at your fingertips.

I started using Svorak A5 (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;svorak.ahall.se&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;svorak.ahall.se&#x2F;</a>) the summer before I started college in 2016 (with the standard bindings on the numerical keys as well, so it&#x27;s redundant). Since I have started using more alphabets I have modified the layout quite a lot over the years. I now have Norwegian, Icelandic and Sami characters as well. I currently bind up to four characters per key.<p>It&#x27;s really true that the extra layers doesn&#x27;t disturb at all. Some characters I don&#x27;t even know where they are, but most I use daily. There are also some that are placed strategically, so that I can find them when i need them (ŋ is Ctrl+Shift+AltGr+N, the ◌̌ dead key is Ctrl+Shift+AltGr+^ and ° is Ctrl+Shift+AltGr+0).<p>I even created a left-handed version once (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;gist.github.com&#x2F;widforss&#x2F;f980baa66d4c99f94adc41b17bd33a2f" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;gist.github.com&#x2F;widforss&#x2F;f980baa66d4c99f94adc41b17bd...</a>), though I never bothered to learn that one.

I’m hoping the title is a reference to this excellent game from Xbox Live Arcade days: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Every_Extend_Extra_Extreme" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Every_Extend_Extra_Extreme</a>

Do I get it right that they have 0 (zero, nada) visualization of what the keys of the current layout would do?<p>If so - then it sounds even worse than learning vim arcane spells &#x2F; motions and bindings.<p>Or are there any h&#x2F;w alternatives to Optimus Maximus [0]?<p>[0] - <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.artlebedev.com&#x2F;optimus&#x2F;maximus&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.artlebedev.com&#x2F;optimus&#x2F;maximus&#x2F;</a>

If I did not switch to chording with plover, I would try this out. I prefer chording now, but colemak was my layout of choice when I still typed a lot. Layers are more confusing for me than chords, and I find chords + phonetics to be more flexible in most cases.

I am using a slightly modified Extend layout since a couple of years, and it was really a game changer for me.