There will always be some words that are pessimal for any given layout. 'Minimum' can indeed be interesting in Colemak, but that's not really important unless you're a mathematician working with topology all day. In that case I'd either practice it until it flows regardless of its relative awkwardness, or cheat and make a macro for it (for instance using the Extend mappings in PortableKeyboardLayout).

If your productivity suffers from low WPM, consider using one or some Tarmak steps to soften the blow. But you're already into the big leap so maybe you're fine with it!

I'm fine with cold turkey actually, I have a lot of time to waste during the summer, might as well learn a new layout that will make my life better in the end. And yeah, you're right about minimum in qwerty actually.

Progresses for today:

July 11th:
    goal: 10
    result: 21, 20, 21, 18, 20

I believe you are right. Qwerty has a lot of weird words as well but we barely notice them because we are used to it.

I have been making very nice progresses and I believe ~32 avg wpm in 4 days is pretty good

July 14th:
    goal: 25
    result: 36, 35, 35, 34, 37

As I become faster and faster though, making progresses becomes substantially harder and I had to try harder today to achieve these results. Looking to break the 40s now!

I've been going through The Change (TM) for a while myself (8-12 weeks?)

I was supposed to be taking typing tests every day and keeping practice in Qwerty but haven't. After I hit around 50wpm I quit bothering heh.

There will be new typos you'll have to adjust to (your Qwerty typos had become second nature... so your new ones will stick out sorely).

I had some finger / joint pain for the first couple weeks, but that was prolly due to stressing finger muscles as learning the new layout (standard new thing = tensing muscles etc).

"cut" has been frequently typo'd to "cud" lately for me.  D and F were common problems for me as well.... but not so much now.  Folks have said that P and G can be an issue, but I've generally not had any issues with them.

I'm not sure what my most common typo / mistake is now.

One handed typing (art program keyboard shortcuts, eating, game controller, etc) is really weird cause you DO have to look at the keyboard - and thus translate key positions based on Qwerty keys (keeping typing positional instead of "qwerty N = colemak K").

Am I happy with the Colemak layout ? Fuck yeah.

Curious, was your 105 average also from 10fastfinger or a different site?

Also, progress does indeed slow down but you should honestly be making steady large progress for the first 2-3 months.  After that progress usually drops down but you should still gain wpm every month.

So it's been a while since I posted here. I started slacking off a bit as I got back into 45-50 wpm because it was enough that I could type stuff at a reasonable rate. It has been a month and a half and my speed is at an average of ~80 wpm right now, though I actually got 90 today!

Here is the full graph of my adventure so far

2014-07-11: Switch to colemak
2014-08-29: Achieved 90 wpm

Also, I'm a Linux mint user at home and have Colemak enabled at all time but is there something I can carry on my USB key that would let me use Colemak somewhere else? (Windows) Something that doesn't require any Administrator permissions also since this is mostly for school. Thanks

Oh yeah, definitely. I just try to get the most out of everyday so I can get back to my original speed as fast as possible.

You're certainly doing better than me: I started 6 months ago, from 100 WPM QWERTY and am now only up to low 60s in Colemak. I've plateaued before, so I'm not too worried about the long run, but still; it's slower going than I was expecting.