@stevedv.eth

I originally opted for qwerty and went with a 42 key variant but found it awkward to type on as my touch typing form is not great and over indexes heavily on my left hand. That was sort of the beginning of my journey in exploring a new layout, which for long I thought was impossible if not not worth it. But 3 weeks into practicing for 30 minutes daily I've been so wrong, it is such a joy to type this way. Main reason being Colemak is optimized for the English language, so words come out very smooth. Aside from ergonomics, a long term motivator is to increase my throughput in typing. On qwerty I'm capped at 100 wpm but I think I could push to 150 wpm with this new layout, which imo helps a bit in this age of AI! keybr.com has been foundational to learning colemak; highly configurable and basically got it matching my setup and the lessons are automatic and very well paced.

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