Best of luck!

If you need more productivity, consider Tarmak. But if you're okay with cold turkey then go you! :)

That very fast progress in only 4 days!  I'm guessing you were already a good touch-typist in Qwerty.   Having a good technique does seem to help with the transition.  I am also at 30 wpm with Colemak but it has taken me 2 months!  But then, I am learning to touch-type properly at the same time, after 30 years of Qwerty hunt-and-peck. Old (bad) habits are hard to shake!

I was a qwerty typist which helped I think. At least I already knew what the journey would be like to some degree. Memory is very hard to change but it's amazing how quickly you start to adapt. I've found 10fastestfingers to be very motivating to use. Some amazing speeds to aim for on there!

Averaging 68wpm on typeracer now. I'll never go back to QWERTY now, the speed just keeps going up and up as well as the comfort factor. I'm seeing flashes around the 80-85wpm mark but it doesn't feel like I'm trying very hard which is not the same experience as with QWERTY at all. I always felt that my fingers couldn't find the keys much above 75wpm.

Very happy with Colemak!

Hi,

I'm looking to get to 100wpm in the end. I hope I can do that over the next couple of months but I'll be sure to post something on here when I get there!

The friendly race is on! It seems a lot easier to build speed in Colemak than Qwerty for sure.

Nice!  My fastest so far is 75 wpm, but steadily increasing.  To clarify my goal though, I am hoping to reach 100 wpm average.  But for this competition, 100 wpm peak seems reasonable, otherwise we might be in for the long haul.

Delighted! After 59 days of switching to Colemak I just hit 90wpm in a race on typerace for the first time! I've never been that fast with QWERTY but the good news is.........I think I have more left in the tank! Practice, practice, practice........10wpm more to go!

Hi,

Sorry to hear about the pain you're getting. I'm not quite up to 100wpm yet, managed to peak at 92wpm! So very close. Another month or so and I hope to get at least one race at the 100wpm mark :)

But he can get that one race that peaks over 100 without necessarily waiting for his average speed to catch up. 

Since you have not hit 100 yet, that means the race is still on!  This is my second day back on Colemak, and my current peak is just under 60.  It's coming back rather quickly.  Before I went back to Workman, my fastest Colemak race was 85 wpm on keyhero.  I expect within a week, I'll be back to 85.  Beyond that, I have no idea how long it will take me to reach 100 (if ever).

I'm really liking this finger shifting idea to avoid the pain.  I haven't had any pain so far.  Basically all I am doing is striking E with my ring finger and I with my pinky, whenever they follow an H.

That one "adjustment" has made all the difference in comfort.  It feels just as comfortable as Workman, but without the speed bottlenecks.  Before I start flirting with the idea that I could be as fast as Sean Wrona, I'll try and reach my more immediate goal of 100 wpm.  The only natural goal after that is of course Sean's record :)  Haha.  Actually, maybe I'll make Ryan Heise my following goal.  He is somewhere around 130 now days, isn't he?

Getting close now guys! Progress is slow, but just did a 94wpm on typeracer. Painfully close to the 100wpm goal! I'll be delighted even if I do it once. That was the target I set when switching from QWERTY, would be so awesome to hit it.