or maybe even though I was not a touch typist I still had positions "AS" memorized just visually.
]]>makes inward and outward rolls of the very common "ra" and "ar" possible also.
]]>btw, I also had that question of why R and S had to be switched and here's Shai's answer:
In the old Colemak I wanted to keep the S in the QWERTY position in order to maintain the Ctrl+S shortcut, however the new Colemak layout doesn't make that compromise.
The advantages of the new layout:
* Lower same-finger ratio.
* Slightly lower same hand row jumping.
* Slightly better finger balance.
* Keeps the W in the same place. It's more important to keep the Ctrl+W shortcut (Close Window under MS Windows) because Ctrl+W is a potentially destructive shortcut.
* Less frequent keys take longer to learn, so it better to keep the W in the same place rather than keeping the S in the same place.
In TypeFaster I can do about 40-50 wpm on the lower lessons and 20-30 on the higher ones.
According to the jphantom sight I'm at 27wpm
More importantly I'm finally good enough that I can play Typershark! (on easy - 70K points).
Aside from those keys mentioned above things are progressing ok.
Oh, and as a side note: Programming in Colemak is infinitely easier than in Dvorak.
In QWERTY according to http://labs.jphantom.com/wpm/ I type around 75-80 wpm right now. And TypeFaster suggests I type around 35 wpm.
I've been using TypeFaster about 2 hours a day to learn Colemak and currently type about 28 wpm on lesson 3.
I look forward to becoming faster and more accurate!
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