What do you mean with the wide/angle ergonomic mods?
Also, perhaps important to note, I work on a laptop, and because I travel a lot I only ever use the laptop keyboard.

I haven't looked at any optimized layouts for Dutch yet (and I also type a lot of English), but I'm hesitant to change the layout, myself, because I know most keys are where they are for a reason.

Nah, I think I have to explain a bit further. My wrist problems are not RSI. The causes for De Quervain are unknown, but they have not been proven to be extensive wrist use. It is a chronic syndrome and I've had it forever. However, the symptoms don't get triggered as much when my wrists don't move a lot, so in that way, Colemak is a really nice solution! So far it has already worked a bit, because I've typing mostly pain-free again for the past few weeks, after a long time of pain. I'm not sure if this is a lasting development because it may just be because I'm typing slower, but we'll see what happens in the future.
My aim for learning Colemak is not to solve my wrist problems, because that's impossible, but it is to get more comfort for my wrists. :-) My four-fingered qwerty-typing was just not ideal in any way though, and this is also just one of the things I'm doing to improve my situation, I've got myself a new chair etc too.

Thank you for the suggestions, though. It is really nice of you to look into it for me. If it was simply RSI bothering me that would have definitely been a very nice solution.

I didn't think of RSI either, I just figured the wrist pains were increased by having to pivot the hands too much because of a lack of reach to some keys, which would indicate the keyboard is too large. But yeah, I'm no expert on wrist disorders or ergonomics so it was just a guess.

That's a good point I guess. It was just a quick example of a keyboard for smaller hands (ergo, smaller or more tightly spaced keys). Finding one with separation as well would have required... more research, but I reckon an ISO version of that keyboard wouldn't be too bad if combined with the wide/angle mod.

I have a friend that swears by minute keyboards, as he can fix his hand placement.

I, Like Dreymar am not a fan of being so hunched up into the middle of the keyboard.  I wish all keyboards would split in two.

At some point I was considering using two keyboards, if you have two identical keyboards and they are small enough, you can drive one with the left hand, and one with the right.  Poorman's Kenesis freestyle (well, I guess that depends on the price of each keyboard.)

Does a larger keyboard put more stress on the wrists?  I'd have thought that it might increase hand movement.  Which might rely more so on the upper body.

I'd have thought that you might get some additional stresses due to teething pains with the new layout.  It's good to hear that isn't the case.  Good luck.

Well, my accuracy problem actually seems to be improving. It is day 17 now and I scored 46 wpm with 97% accuracy just now, and I am hitting the keys with a lot of confidence today. It makes me hope that I will be able to get past that after all. It is quite amazing how natural Colemak already feels to me. I love how it feels to type right now, and I've moved beyond the initial discomfort. 40-46 wpm is fast enough for me to not be annoyed with my slow typing speed anymore - still very slow but not frustratingly so.
I'm greatly enjoying the new layout so far. It is quite entertaining actually, and I've had the first amusing moments when people tried typing on my keyboard (which still looks like Qwerty).

@Ghen: Yes, the J is difficult, but I have decided not to do anything about it. Like you, I type English almost just as frequently as I do Dutch, so it just isn't worth it for me. In addition, changing it would be way too much trouble. I'll just learn to live with it :) My main mix-ups right now are still J/L and typing O instead of ;. For some reason the P and G are fine now.

@DreymaR: I agree that small keyboards would probably only make the problems worse instead of alleviating them. Only shortly after I started learning Colemak, the wrist pains that had been plaguing me for most of November lessened/disappeared for the most part, giving me a very nice break. They are still there, but thankfully less active. I am going to test whether it remains that way, and if it does come back I may give that wide mod a try. Thank you for that advice, I will be sure to keep it in mind :-)

@Neuraxis: My hands have a rather normal size. I just have short pinkies, they reach up to... about halfway my ring finger. Haha. They're also slightly crooked. It's a family thing.

Indeed it is!
It hasn't been such a hellish experience for me, actually. It's bothered me less than I thought it might.

51 wpm with 93% accuracy just now. Did most of it without mistakes, then started messing up loads towards the end. I average at ~48 wpm today.

Hm, I've tried it and I'm not sure it works for me. I don't need to visualise it, I need to create automatisms, and for me that works better :-) I do switch between accuracy and speed, though, like you said.

I have been plateauing at around 50-53 wpm for the past few days. My accuracy is slowly improving, though, so I imagine my wpm will start going up again too in a while :-)

By the way, I keep writing nk instead of kn lately. This is something new which I didn't do before.

I was gonna write the same but then I figured, he wouldn't mistype NK/KN if he used only the index finger ;)

Oh, a lady in the forum. Nice to meet you, and sorry for mu assumption ;)

And yeah, with some time all the confusion from the qwerty positions, will disappear.

It's only a month, and you still don't ditch Qwerty. After another month, with full time Colemak use you will type Colemak fluently.

You're the second or third lady here, so it's pretty rare indeed.

In typing tests I tend to do way worse than in my normal typing and I'm not sure why that is. Probably the pressure of trying to do it right, or my tendency to type what I THINK is there rather than what is really there.
Anyway, I finally managed a test today that is reflective of the speed and accuracy I normally have when typing now. I was typing at a very relaxed pace, taking my time without rushing it and I reached 55 wpm with 98.5% accuracy. I'm especially pleased with the accuracy, I've never been so accurate before, especially not on qwerty. I really enjoyed seeing this.

This is day 38 since I started Colemak, btw. 55 wpm 98.5% accuracy and I can do faster if I try.
Edit: Hit 60 wpm just now, also quite easily, although my accuracy went down to 96%.

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