Description. Word (or word chunk) bursts, with long pauses to plan the bursts. See this page on the Wide Mod. -------------------------------------------------------------. Another week and another small gain. When typing out a BBCode tag, I'll use left-right-left for, say, the. UHK (Ultimate Hacking Keyboard) Microsoft Natural Ergonomic Keyboard 4000 & Sculpt A split keyboard is weird at first, but once you get used to it, you will never want anything else. This introduces a greater separation between the hands for a more ergonomic experience. Colemak is a keyboard layout for Latin-script alphabets, designed to make typing more efficient and comfortable by placing the most frequently used letters of the English language on the home row. Hopefully I'll have some kind of breakthrough and suddenly be able to burst out easy words and ngrams, but for now I rarely crack 90wpm on any single word. Update (2022-02-22): It took me approximately 2 to 2.5 months to gain speed in Colemak more or less equal to my best QWERTY speeds. This seems to be enough, however, my right hand cries in agony when I get a quote with a bunch of quoted dialog and "you' words. The Colemak layout allows you to type around 34 times the number of words on the home row than QWERTY. Programming, and general tasks seem so much harder at the moment, while typing text, and strictly just that, feels much nicer. It's nothing that can't be fixed by a couple small chunks of wood, but still. ****** Check out my Big Bag of Keyboard Tricks for Win/Linux/TMK ***. Includes ahk, keylayout, klc, pkl, tmk, xkb). The legacy of Extend: The Happy Hacking Keyboard's Fn layer for navigation, media and F# keys. I also had (and somewhat continue to have) trouble with confusing 'a' and 'o'. So Colemak retained those keyboard shortcuts in the same positions as for Qwerty. In case you are wondering, I use setxkbmap for this, like: This means that Caps Lock acts as Mode Switch. In contrast, "ion" has always been ok for me. If you want to learn more about fun options, study my BigBag a little. This is amusing. Colemak, QMK, Lily58, 40%, and split keyboards It has been a few months since I started heavily investing in learning to type on a 40% keyboard, in hopes of juicing out some extra productivity, and it has been an extremely bumpy ride so far. I no longer practice at all on the weekends, and each week I see that the two days of off-time actually helps me to manifest the improvements that my previous week's practice earned. Typing code, with the extra symbols on different layers gets annoying very quick. This is the one that I'm trying to get used to. As for my own progress, I have reasonable expectations about how slow my future progress is going to be. Thanks! Learning Colemak is a one-time investment that will allow you to enjoy faster and pain-free typing for the rest of your life. B isn't that common, and as you say it gets a bit of a rough treatment in DH. I think the key was, ironically, cutting out almost all MonkeyType practice for a week. I have stuck with my initial plan to use Colemak-DH exclusively on the Moonlander and use QWERTY exclusively on all row staggered keyboards. The only solution is to put the remaining letters on different layers (a layer can be activated by holding another button, similar to ALT/CTRL/Shift, but instead of acting as a modifier, it changes all the keys), and while this idea sounded great in theory, this only works for rarely used keys. Stickers are designed to match "English - Colemak" layout on Mac and Windows. This is a great alternative layout for journalists, writers, stenotypists, and anyone who wants to type fast. I guess that I'm at around 75% of my previous QWERTY speed. Advantages Ergonomic and comfortable - Your fingers on QWERTY move 2.2x more than on Colemak. Do NOT continually blast through MonkeyType tests while you're fatigued (mentally or physically). I just wanted to have fun with the learning process, treat it more as a hobby, and take the results as they came. You need to train your brain to adapt to the new layout or reassign shortcuts to the existing layouts. Now that I'm two months in, I'm finding it much easier to relax into a good typing zone. My left middle finger anticipates the 'C' and decides on its own that it can still do the 'E' too. Looking back in hindsight, this was probably a bad idea, but I also decided that this is still not hard enough yet, I need to make this harder. I see no reason to believe I'll be unable to eventually reach 70wpm average on the English 5k list, although that is likely to take a year or more. 23 Feb 2022 17:3355.38 55.38 98.23% 75.65% 277/0/0/0 time 60 !? Reply I've never had the pleasure of using mechanical switches with light actuation force, and it's so nice. To be fair Z is less frequent that some symbols so it sounds reasonable. And broken the 50 barrier! I see the possibility of it happening even sooner, because I have already done 46 wpm for a single 30s sprint on the 200 word list, but only time will tell. When people talk about 40% boards, they usually mean something like the Planck (see picture), but not me, no, I had to complicate this further. I still think that I'll eventually reach a faster speed with Colemak than I previously had with QWERTY, but even though I'm within 15-20% of that already, it's going to take a while. Thus far the Moonlander has exceeded my expectations. Colemak Academy - Learn Colemak fast. I've long thought that I was a good candidate to see good results from a Colemak layout, because I have no personalized tricks compensating for its many weaknesses (ie. In my experience, it's the rarer keys that give you the most trouble in the long run. I simply shape my hand such that the ring finger strikes before the pinky and then so an inward roll onto the middle (or index, for "ion") finger to complete the trigram. Basically, I have only been forced to use QWERTY when interacting with other people's computers (which is fairly frequent but always extremely brief). It's after the name of its creator, Shai Coleman. I started out with keybr.com to learn colemak, but I very quickly realized that typing characters from the screen is very different than typing down your thoughts, it's like the two things use slightly different neural pathways, because even after I managed to type fairly well on keybr, I was still struggling to reply to IM messages. Also mix in punctuation and Quotes mode. I don't use the Monkeytype as much as I did perviously, but I still type on it most days for a few minutes several times throughout the day. The only thing really slowing me down is the extra tap of the shift key. I use Monkeytype quite a bit but that may be for when you're a little more confident? Sounds like you have done well on the "you" issue. Why is it called Colemak? I think the break from MonkeyType helped break some mental blocks. I did spend a LOT of time training, because it became my main "time-waster" hobby, but I don't regret that. Minimizing pauses won't be enough. ISO wide: Colemak-DH for an ISO keyboard, in a "wide" configuration. Words like "develop", "psychology", etc. Keyboard stickers with two languages: your own and Colemak English layout. Compared to other keyboard layouts, QWERTY is very inefficient. Some compact "hacker" keyboards such as the Happy Hacking Keyboard also sport such Fn layers that give easy access to arrows, F# keys and other keys that are missing from the reduced-size keyboard.. The 98% accuracy that I have been achieving on wordlists is actually not great. I have been surprised by how little I've used a row stagger keyboard. I'm not worried about my QWERTY ability disappearing. 2PCS Pack Universal English Keyboard Stickers, Computer Keyboard Stickers Black Background with White Lettering for Computer Laptop Notebook Desktop (English) $595. So the common shortcut keys in convenient positions on the left-hand are: Backspace word (cntrl-W) Select all. It's not the best looking board I own, but it works perfectly for what I needed. When I went back to letting my fingers go again yesterday, I was amazed at many fewer errors I was making. The Moonlander also allows me to leave the OS layout at ANSI-US, which cleanly by-passes any remote desktop issues. The big change is that the gap between my MonkeyType and "real" speed has shrunk considerably. That's an amusing reversal. Since I knew that I would need to acclimate to the top and (especially) bottom row key locations anyway, I decided to go all-in and learn Colemak-DH at the same time. Despite that, it remains the de facto standard. GoldTouch keyboards are the cheapest split keyboards I've seen come up on eBay from time to time, for around $50-$70 used. Due to the lack of an extra key to the right of the Left-Shift key, we need to relocate Z . Today was my second day of using Colemak-DH for work, and it went so much better. Keyboard Shortcuts: CapsLock: Toggle Colemak activation (When the scroll lock light is on, Colemak is disabled) Ctrl+Alt+Numpad Minus: Disable Colemak for this application Ctrl+Alt+Numpad Plus: Re-enable Colemak for this application Ctrl+Shift+Escape: Launch task manager with high priority! I think that my best rolling average of ten tests is 52 wpm. I haven't given up yet, I'm still trying to get used to it, but it feels like I have hit a "is this really worth it?" I'm hoping now to teach my fingers that laptop=QWERTY and moonlander=Colemak-DH. I have a very similar one although I think my current wpm rate is slower. With around 100,000 people having taken up the challenge of. I think that adding periods and commas probably speeds me up by balancing the fingers more. I did have a slight head start from doing the first 8 letters in Keybr while waiting, but it's close enough to a month. This means that if I press this key, I get an "F", but if I hold it, it transforms the right side of the keyboard into what you see on the layer called "Hungarian", so if I held "HUN F", and pressed the key where "L" is on the right side, I would get "". I have been using the Lily58 for about 9 months now, but I'd say the first 2 was basically spent trying to come up with a satisfying layout. I have a programming related blog, and a gaming related blog. I'm really shocked at how often I accidentally type 'o' when I mean to type 'a'. These days I've been using these tips to improve my speed and so far it's been working. My practice time is much reduced from my previous excessive levels. It is still extremely annoying to type on this keyboard for a longer time, even after using it almost exclusively for many months. My other issue is that my left middle finger wants to steel back both 'D' and 'E'. Having the Quotation on the left pinky is probably the biggest gain on the complex texts that have dialog, but having the Dash on a prime spot is also really helpful for some of them. I still don't have any plans to use Colemak on any row-stagger boards, so it's all academic. I think it's that initial stretch of the ring finger up to the "y", knowing that "o" is next, that seems to disrupt my natural flow. I still have issues with transposing hands, especially A <-> O, but I think its improving. I would probably stick with Colemak-DH (with my minor alteration), but I know longer really care about maintaining the ctrl-Z, X, C, and V shortcuts nearly as much, so I would be tempted to try something more exotic like Semimak or Engram. You can set this layout both on Mac and Windows. Have you ever had to edit code through a remote SSH session, on a shitty network, so every keystroke was lagging? My goal is to maximize my ability to "instantly" switch when moving to a different keyboard, because my bouts on other devices are always brief (if I have to warm up, I'll be done before I'm comfortable). The best, most customizable typing tutor and keyboard trainer available. This was the big mistake that I made repeatedly, because I would get into a horrible loop where I would want to end on a good performance and each good performance would make me want to match it. At the same time it retains many of the original keys from Qwerty as you only need to learn 17 new key positions. I have stuck with my initial plan to use Colemak-DH exclusively on the Moonlander and use QWERTY exclusively on all row staggered keyboards. I have a few theories. Split Design With a truly split layout, the ErgoDox EZ allows you to position each half where it makes sense to you. My Colemak muscle memory is no longer a layer over my old QWERTY muscle memory; it's more of it's own independent thing. I'm no longer really drilling the English 5k list anymore. I'm guessing that 75-80% of QWERTY wpm after a month is better than most can expect for two reasons: My typing style was already very well suited to Colemak and very ill-suited for QWERTY. You can probably program lots of stuff into your board, but if you're on Windows at least, give EPKL a look. So yes, for hardcore programming you'll likely want to implement that in the IDE of your choice but I still think there's a real benefit to having the power to implement PowerStrings that are always with you. That said, I still need to look at the Keyboard to really access the QWERTY memory. My method of learning has worked well. I'm now also decidedly faster when typing PowerShell commands and scripts. But at this point it's hard not to look ahead. It still looks nice as a niche keyboard on my shelf, but that's about it. I also had the thought that for programming templates like the for-loop example, it depends a lot on your programming language. My current trouble letter is 'B'. I had to tweak it a bit, to support my 3 language + symbols requirement, and I ended up needing a whopping 8 layers, to fit everything. But, I can't see any super compelling reason to choose against Colemak-DH, unless you hate alt-fingering NK / KN. My biggest struggle right now is making myself stop running tests, so that I don't over-extend myself, because it's so much fun to type free and easy. are all much smoother. Also works for workman, qwerty, and azerty Level 1 Level 2 Level 3 Level 4 Level 5 Level 6 All Words colemak Academy I have seen so many posts on /r/mechanicalkeyboards, that it never occured to me that using these keyboards can be so cumbersome. Current ProgressI began dabbling in keybr about two weeks ago, but I stopped once I got to letter 'D', since I didn't want to mess with the bottom row until I received the Moonlander. also took the time to clean my filthy keyboard HAHAHA 29 Oct 2022 18:30:10 After watching Oats's latest YouTube video, I just did a set of ten 60s test with English 10k and Punctuation. It's still very large, but I think I can now free type at 25+wpm, as long as I know exactly what I want to say. And also look at how to design an Extend layer properly (or use mine it's very well tested by now!). 23 Feb 2022 17:2856.60 56.60 97.92% 69.80% 283/0/0/0 time 60 !? Apparently, it was designed with typewriters in mind, so its main objective is to move the most frequently used keys as far apart from each other as possible, to avoid jamming the typewriter. No matter how hard I concentrated on relaxing and typing in a controlled and precise manner, my fingers just went off the rails and did whatever they pleased. Ten test average (English 10k with Punctuation; 60s):55 wpm average98% accuracy average70% consistency, 53.99 53.99 99.26% 74.07% 270/0/0/0 time 60 !? Coleman gathered the most popular English letters and placed them on the middle row of the keyboard, the so-called Home row.Furthermore, placing was optimised to write bigrams. However, I was very fortunate to come from a QWERTY typing style that already had almost no hand movemement. Additionally, I'm now confident that I'm at least as fast on Colemak-DH as I ever was on QWERTY, regardless of the metric used to judge (with the probable exception of a few CLI commands that I learned to spam really fast on QWERTY). This is of course the opposite of what you want when typing on a keyboard, you want the most frequently used keys on the home row, so that they are easily accessible. Repeating the same key sequences in close succession is a real mind / finger bender for me. Taking a few days off can really cement the recent practice. My recommendations from my first month of experience: Do Keybr through all of the letters and don't skip ahead. switched to colemak-dh today to stave off my hunger for a split column-staggered keyb! This will be a journal of that progress. I have been surprised by how little I've used a row stagger keyboard. I typed half of this paragraph in Colemak on the moonlander and the other half in QWERTY on the laptop keyboard, and transitioning between the two was very nearly seamless. The thing about having those things in EPKL though, similar to Extend, is that you'll have it at the ready everywhere. The hands don't approach the keyboard at right angles to the keyboard (assuming a traditional, non-split type). The top voted comment was a request for a similarly toned article about Colemak, so here's a brief introduction to what Colemak is, and what my experience with it has been like. I chose this time to start the transition, partially because I don't have any coding projects going on. I started trying out Colemak on April 22. [1] Created in 2006, it is named after its inventor, Shai Coleman. 60 wpm average98% average accuracy75% average consistency, 59.98 59.98 98.04% 77.16% 300/0/0/0 time 60 07 Mar 2022 13:3359.18 59.18 97.70% 76.68% 296/0/0/0 time 60 07 Mar 2022 12:5261.98 61.98 98.41% 79.24% 310/0/0/0 time 60 07 Mar 2022 12:4658.79 58.79 97.69% 74.84% 294/0/0/0 time 60 07 Mar 2022 12:4558.38 58.38 97.99% 74.81% 292/0/0/0 time 60 07 Mar 2022 12:4359.00 59.00 98.33% 73.67% 295/0/0/0 time 60 07 Mar 2022 12:3859.59 59.59 98.36% 74.81% 298/0/0/0 time 60 07 Mar 2022 12:3656.39 56.39 96.91% 70.89% 282/0/0/0 time 60 07 Mar 2022 12:3462.19 62.19 97.50% 75.88% 311/0/0/0 time 60 07 Mar 2022 12:2659.78 59.78 98.68% 75.10% 299/0/0/0 time 60 07 Mar 2022 12:17. ProMuch less lateral hand movement compared with regular Colemak. It's been fun. I also switched to 2min tests at the same time. I'm looking forward to looking at QWERTY, because I'm going to look at the layout from both a traditional home-row style and also a Wronian style (as best I can using the descriptions he put in his book). Three, the columnar layout makes the 'B' position harder than on staggered, and the 'J' position is made easier. 58 wpm average97% accuracy average76% consistency average, 58.39 58.39 96.70% 75.37% 292/0/0/0 time 60 22 Feb 2022 13:2459.78 59.78 98.68% 77.88% 299/0/0/0 time 60 22 Feb 2022 13:2359.59 59.59 98.03% 80.98% 298/0/0/0 time 60 22 Feb 2022 13:2157.18 57.18 97.96% 73.21% 286/0/0/0 time 60 22 Feb 2022 13:1954.99 54.99 95.19% 73.16% 275/0/0/0 time 60 22 Feb 2022 13:1758.59 58.59 98.65% 76.26% 293/0/0/0 time 60 22 Feb 2022 13:1557.98 57.98 96.67% 73.67% 290/0/0/0 time 60 22 Feb 2022 13:1460.18 60.18 97.76% 77.57% 301/0/0/0 time 60 22 Feb 2022 13:1260.18 60.18 97.73% 79.12% 301/0/0/0 time 60 22 Feb 2022 13:1057.98 57.98 96.67% 70.79% 290/0/0/0 time 60 22 Feb 2022 13:08. 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