I think you might be an extreme case ducttapeandzipties, I've went through these forums and have collected a number of experiences and the majority seem to have regained there old qwerty, speeds between 2 and 6 months.  Most have reported gains in speed after that eventually.  In my personal experience I am 1 day away from my 3rd month (12 weeks). I'm currently typing at 71wpm, which is 85% of my qwerty speed of 83. My progress has slowed down tremendously but is still happening gradually, but I've been at what I consider to be a functional speed of 50+ for more than 2 months.

If you have a daily chart that you have been keeping I would like to see it, I plan on making a communal graph showing different peoples experiences, and people should know about yours as well.

How do you manage to keep strong in both QWERTY and Colemak? You have a rare ability there.

too many wrong words though - you ought to work on that with some more training ;-)

Little update after 3 months or so. Just did two typing tests after another, one with colemak and one with qwerty. I managed to get 85 WPM on colemak, and directly switching to qwerty afterwards I managed to get 62 WPM with qwerty hunting and pecking.
The words which are in the list on 10fastfingers I still type the fastest even today, and I guess that I haven't been practicing enough with other types of typing trainers. So remember people, don't focus on the 100 or so words on 10fastfingers, they mainly teach you how to type those 100 words very quickly. Which I'm still grateful for, because they are words which you use a lot.

I type too little from day to day basis to keep my speeds properly high, nor have I the intention to. The 100+ WPM was just on 10fastfingers and when I type normally, I'm guessing I'm able to type at about 70 WPM, which is fine for me.

I'll update again in a couple of months, a year after I started.

10.000+ views, that doesn't happen a lot to me on the internet ;).

After more than a year, I managed to beat my previous record (set at 27-1-2014) by.... 1 WPM

I haven't been practicing in pretty much forever, so I'm not that dissapointed :D

-j has shitty location on colemak
-j has frequency of about 1.5% in Dutch language
-2/3 of time the j is part of the 'ij' combination
-ij combo is very important in Dutch language: mijn (my), zijn (are, his), fijn (nice), pijn (pain) and heaps and heaps of other words
-ij is quite shitty to type

Solution: Change 'ii' to 'ij' using autohotkey.
'ii' is never used in the Dutch nor in the English language, so it's the perfect combo for typing the 'ij'

Fun to see that even after a year or so, changes like this are still coming to my mind.

What about this suggestion of doing a J/K switch? Another option might be a J/; switch as long JO is not very common in Dutch.  My Dutch is not up to much so I wouldn't know.  I would probably be better at double-dutch :)

I'm not sure which syllabus you used, but there seems to be quite a big difference in frequencies compared to this Dutch-language site (https://onzetaal.nl/taaladvies/advies/l … nederlands)

All the letters you noted (M H K) are acually more frequent in Dutch than the J.

The only real solution would be something with the y, which has a frequence of practically 0 in the Dutch language, and is in a decent position. However, changing the y with the j would be no real solution, because 65% of the time the j is accompanied by an i. And typing -iy- is not nice at all.

I'm not gonna switch around more keys just to take care of  this little annoyance, the solution (ii -> ij) works perfectly imo. It's just something to keep in mind if someone creates a colemak version especially for the Dutch language.

I pretty much never use those, and if I really need to it's still pretty easy.

type ii [it changes to ij] press delete [j gets deleted] type i [it does not change now], and voilla, you have ii. It now takes 4 presses to type ii, instead of 2, so no biggy.

First test in a couple of weeks/months

Yes, well. I actually hate typographical digraphs. In my opinion, they should be automatically generated by word processors and handled by computer code (which is tricky) but not typed manually. This goes for fl, fi, sz, sž, dž, ij and whatever other digraphs of similar nature we've made us. I'm undecided on the older ones that are actually written together like œ and æ; those should probably be allowed to live – along with digraphs that have turned into accents like ô (in French), ñ, ç etc.

It's silly to make the list of needed characters that much longer by combining various monographs. Single letters is the reason for the great success of the alphabet. ;-)

Haha, yes for typographical characters in entry of proper text I'm a big fan. I don't envy the programmers that have to sort words with typographical digraphs in them, but it's of course doable. And it better stay away from my coding, as I do not want any curly quotes in my C (hard to notice and a game-breaker).