LOL

Actually, I practice more than 1 hour per day. (I practiced almost 6 hrs yesterday and 6 hrs today).
I do write all day as I'm a software developer.
Btw, my productivity is down, but I'm kinda handling it.

I hate "L", I just can't get it right :(

When I asked about Type-fu being enough, I actually asked if I need to work with something else as a complement :).

Focus on your accuracy instead of speed. 98% is the common goal. Your speed will steadily increase on its own accord.

Exactly.

I agree on Amphetype being a good supplement. With it you can make practice lists of common words or your most problematic words (once you've typed in it for a while, it can even do that for you) which will help in my experience. I've used it for typing a few books ('Alice through the looking glass' and 'Il Principe'), which gave me better flow after a while at it.

Typing Of The Dead if you need a diversion – it's got surprisingly good drills! But I think you need Windows for it.

I remember learning to touch type and that part wasn't fun (once over 30wpm it feels better).  You are transitioning via Tarmak (I assume you could touch type Qwerty), I'd expect it to not kill your productivity quite so much.  Is that normal?  Perhaps that's just a side affect of having to think about what you are doing.

Hi Guys, thanks a lot for the advices!

I didn't give you any background about me :).

I'm a Software developer. I didn't actually touch type, but I could write at 62wpm (QWERTY) using my 10 fingers with almost not looking at the keyboard and without a proper position of my fingers. I could not write in the darkness though (as I still needed the be able to look at the keyboard).
But yeah, I could write a little fast and now can't do it anymore.

I thought it was bad idea to use Tarmak as I wasn't a touch typer before, but wanted to do the experiment and see how it goes.
I think you can get the benefits of Tarmak even if you are like me: a not-so-slow typer (but a not-so-fast one). The only thing I noticed is, when I started Tarmak3, I couldn't write as I did in QWERTY anymore, and was forced to start putting my hands in a good position and get used to having my index fingers in "T" and "N" before start writing.
It was hard, but I got used to it and now I like it a lot.

I did practice a lot until I reached 98%/40 in each Tarmak step. Actually I reached 100%/54 in Tarmak 3 (that was good luck, I guess).
My goal was to stick in every step for minimum 1 week, but Tarmak 4 was so easy that I switched to full colemak in 3 days. Now I hate "L" a lot, but I'll get it in any moment.

I think, the reason why I'm having a bad time with full colemak was that my touch typing muscle memory (after Tarmak2) got used to touch type having the "L", "U" and "I" where they are in QWERTY, so I'm kinda overwriting my muscle memory twice in less than two weeks :(.

I was using Amphetype a little and stopped using it, but I'll use it again as a complement.

I'll keep you posted!!

P.S: It took me almost 30 mins to write all this :)

I'm getting better progressively, sometimes I get a plateau of 20wpm and sometimes I get a lot of speed with a low accuracy.

...and sometimes, I get things like this: https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/232 … 9%20PM.png

I'll give you more details tomorrow :)

I am working on the accuracy thing.

It's hard to improve it, but I'm getting better.
I can have a chat, can send emails, and in general write all I want without feeling frustrated.

I can say, If I focus on 100% accuracy, I have an average speed of 40wpm. Which is not very fast, but is not so slow either.

I do 100% touch typing, in all letters. But when I have to type a number or special char, I do have to look at the keyboard. Maybe I will fix it in some moths :).

You are right Tony,

Type-fu does not allow me to go to the next "level" if I don't reach my goal 5 times consecutively. I put a goal of 40wpm/100% and I can't reach that goal with the home row, it's very hard! But if I do it with 98% accuracy as my goal, I reach it with a Speed higher than 50wpm in my first try.

I haven't practiced a lot in almost two weeks, I have had not enough time.
But will continue working hard on main goal, which is 80wpm. I will be happy with that (I don't need to reach 100wpm to feel good :)).

Go you! Great success there!

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