1 point
Layout isn’t really about speed, it’s about comfort
I’ve been using modified colemak for like a year now and good lord it’s so much nicer to use: you just place your fingers on “arst neio” in my case and then 80% of the keys you actually use on a regular basis are within a tiny finger movement to reach.
And then there’s the fact that you’re almost always using a different finger for the next letter, suuuper smooth typing experience.