Hello,

I switched to Colemak some months back (approx. the date of my forum signup here) and so far have surpassed my old fast-peck style typing speed on qwerty by a small margin, but it has remained stagnant for months. However, the layout does decrease the amount of stress by a larger margin, and therefore discontent is not the reason I seek your help today.

The root of the problem I present to you is somewhat of my own doing, and a combination of many different mistakes and circumstances.

- I use a Das Keyboard Silent with blank keycaps, so I cannot easily glance down to revert to qwerty without a lot of thinking.
- Microsoft IME for typing in Japanese characters reverts my layout to qwerty.
- My DAW supports using the top row of my keyboard as a makeshift MIDI keyboard when I'm too lazy to turn around, and cannot be rebound.

The overlying problem can be solved by using the registry hack, but producing music will be a magnitude harder without the easy keyboard, and I'm not sure how older games like HL1 will react (GoldSrc games won't accept my R key as backwards). I'm aware that I'm doing things the hard way, but I would like to avoid losing qwerty in case a need arises.

Thanks,
-Reacon