back up over 50 wpm on 10 fast fingers now with no wrong words

i think this is going to be quite an easy mod to get into the fingers

i'm predicting a month tops to get back to top speeds - who knows, maybe exceed them?

it does feel genuinely better than vanilla colemak

Nice! I train with Amphetype now, just hacking away at readable books. Having a stab at Lovecraft now!

Yeah, I use 97% and 50–55 WPM for reasons of sanity. The point for me is not to make each passage an ordeal, but to type whole books to get a lot of training in. I do try to delete the whole word each time I mistype though – using Extend+T+O (=Ctrl+Back) for that is a good habit.

There are many nice combos you can use with the Extend layer:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Table_of_ … xt_editing

Hmmm... now I want to compile a list of Extend shortcuts, to showcase the power of it. Dang, more work for me. :-)

[edit: Here we go, what do you think? Any additions or corrections? I know not everything works the same in Linux for instance]

EXTEND LAYER SHORTCUT TIPS
• Most of these work in both Windows and Linux (most of the time).
• My Extend layer doesn't support letters nor the Win/GUI key.

+===================+===============+=======================+
| Shortcut          | Extend+...    | Effect                |
+===================+===============+=======================+
| Ctrl+(Sh+)Z       | (S+)Z         | Undo/Redo             |
| Ctrl+(Sh+)X/C/V   | (S+)X/C/V     | (Line) Cut/Copy/Paste |
| Enter, Esc        | Spc, (Q or [) | Activate/Cancel Item  |
| Alt(Sh+)Esc       | A+(S+)Q       | Next/Prev Window (?)  |
| Ctrl+Esc          | T+(Q or [)    | App Menu              |
| Shift+Enter       | S+Spc         | Insert Soft Linebreak |
| Ctrl+Enter        | T+Spc         | Send Mail, etc        |
| [Ctrl/+Sh]+Enter  | [T/+S]+Spc    | Send URL+com/net/org  |
+-------------------+---------------+-----------------------+
| F1                | 1             | Help                  |
| F2                | 2             | Rename                |
| Alt+F2 <.>        | A+2 <.>       | Run App <.> (Linux)   |
| (Sh+)F3           | (S+)3         | Find Next/Prev        |
| (Alt/Ctrl)+F4     | (A/T)+4       | Close App/Tab         |
| (Ctrl/+Sh+)F5     | (T/+S+)5      | (Hard/-er) Refresh    |
| (Sh+)F6           | (S+)6         | Switch Pane           |
| Alt+F8 → Enter    | A+8 → Spc     | Resize Window         |
| F10 or Alt        | 0 or A        | Focus on Menu (?)     |
| Sh+F10            | S+0           | Context Menu          |
| Alt+F10           | A+0           | File Menu (Win?)      |
| F11               | -             | Fullscreen On/Off     |
+-------------------+---------------+-----------------------+
| Ctrl+(Sh+)←/→     | T+(S+)N/I     | Goto/Select Word ←/→  |
| Ctrl+Back/Del     | T+O/;         | Delete Word ←/→       |
| (Ctrl+)Home/End   | (T+)L/Y       | GoTo Line/Doc ←/→     |
| Ctrl+↑/↓          | T+U/E         | GoTo Paragraph ↑/↓    |
| Ctrl+(Sh+)PgUp/Dn | T+(S+)J/H     | Switch/Move Tab       |
| Alt+←/→           | A+N/I or F/P  | Browser ←/→           |
| Alt+↑ or Back     | A+U or O      | Navigate Back         |
| (Alt|Ctrl)+Home   | (A or T)+L    | GoTo Home Page        |
+===================+===============+=======================+

Hey, bph: Remember to slow down before you speed up!

YW

Oo, nice going!

I feel faster after learning Curl. It may just be that I put in some extra exercise in Amphetype and was ready for a step-up I guess, but I have this good feeling about it. Like a small portion of the joy of changing to Colemak in the first place was revisited upon me.

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The race is on, my friend! ;-)

P.S.: Did you like that Extend Shortcut list I made? The updated version of it is in the Big Bag (XKB) topic.

Sweaty but happy! ;-)

In Linux, it's a matter of setting the options right. It's in my Big Bag topic. Using my setxkb script the default options will activate Extend and you could use a shortstring to get the model/layout you want easily. In etc/keyboard it's the options line (again, see the BBoKT topic).

You don't have to hit a lot of keys but you'll want to! With Caps as the Extend modifier, much of the time you'll be pressing single keys with it but the combos are very awesome as seen in that table.

Getting started is as easy as just activating it and starting to use the arrow block (UNEI keys) and Backspace/Del (O/;). After that, additional tricks will keep seeping into your repertoire, such as the fantastic T+O for Delete Word. You may want to use my help image if you need some pointers.

hang on - i think i have a problem - i've got caps as ctrl to aid my emacs usage, changing that would kill me so i'll have to think of an alternative. maybe i could use the left ctrl key? whats that one called (i.e. what do i have to type into the /etc/keyboard file..

this is a bit confusing - what is the very easiest thing i can do to try the extend layer bearing in mind that use of caps is out of the equation?

Okay, scratch that: I made you a present! :-)

Download the latest Big Bag xkb files and there's now a 'lv5:lctl_switch_lock' option! Complete with settings GUI integration.

I thought it over and it's useful if you're using the Caps key for LCtl (and I know some people do). You're welcome!

exempli gratia:

XKBOPTIONS="lv5:lctl_switch_lock,misc:extend,grp:shifts_toggle,compose:menu"

if you run 'setxkbmap -v 9' in a terminal you should see which options are active. Yes, if you overwrite the level5 Caps mapping with another Caps→LCtrl mapping you'll lose the former.

The 'xev' command can tell you which keys you're pressing. Just 'xev &' works fine, or you can be fancy:

xev | grep -A2 --line-buffered '^KeyRelease' | sed -n '/keycode /s/^.*keycode \([0-9]*\).* (.*, \(.*\)).*$/\1 \2/p'

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Using CurlAngleWide Colemak

My sweat is gone, and it got replaced by a coffee mug?

Lord, how did that happen? I'm not usually that fast – this speed is my goal (for now) but I'm usually around 70 WPM-ish. Unlucky for you, bph, who happened to duel me on a super-me day... ;-)