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I have the number keys mapped to their symbols (i.e. pressing 1 gives !, pressing Shift+1 gives 1 etc.) using a custom XKB map. Feels so much more efficient, although I don't have any hard stats.

I do the same thing using KeyRemap4MacBook

http://pqrs.org/macosx/keyremap4macbook/

Sounds almost like a FR layout.

FR layout is great for this (and writing lisp is easier when the parenthesis are easily typed) but the []{} characters are horrible to type!

  0	70015
  1	51196
  2	34396
  3	27248
  4	28487
  5	18818
  6	14918
  7	12900
  8	12680
  9	12231
  !	8811
  "	65196
  £	22
  $	10677
  %	7848
  ^	2890
  &	15019
  *	78756
  (	164996
  )	164418
  121.73935896998462% fewer keystrokes
EDIT: scratch that, I was including my node_modules folders.
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