I bought the Magiforce Keybaord with Gateron Brown Switches
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B01HH … UTF8&psc=1

Then I bought the Retro key cap set which is semi universal but definitely is perfect on the Qisan Magiforce
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B01N6 … UTF8&psc=1

Very simple with the key cap puller that came with the keyboard, I pulled all the keys and replaced with the retro or I like to call it Steam Punk
keys.

Unlike the original keys that came with the keyboard the Retro Keys are all the same height so I changed the layout to Colemak and
all the Keys are even.

By the way the Gateron switches type like a dream. Super light actuation

Liked so much that I bought one for office and one for work.

I'm two left thumbs, If I can do it anyone can.

Luckily the space bar was a simple pop in and out
didn't have the metal brackets that some keyboards do.

It took less than an hour.

haha - typeracer efficiencies i call them, that and skipping any texts that look obviously long/difficult ;)

Yeah, I'm slowly gaining speed as well, and Typeracer is a fun deviation, I do actually enjoy using amphetype and a good e-book better, it let's me focus better, and it works offline as well.

11 Months later
I just realized that I've surpassed my old qwerty speed.

I've been peaking at 56 words a minute and my bottom on the hardest ones is 44. With most in the 47-50  range. Doing every single challenge and counting the first 3 that I type as warm up. I'm an honest 48-50 WPM. Most of my scores are in the high 40s. I find I enjoy typeracer better when I play honestly because I can look at past scores and see progress.

When I stopped qwerty I was around 35-40wpm on qwerty but I did have an occasional burst up to 60.

I can really feel the muscle memory getting better. Is feels like my fingers are beginning to glide across the key board. I found one thing that helped was to type with my wrists in a more upright position. And to loosen up my fingers. it's easy to have a low wrist and tight fingers sometimes you'll type better but in the long haul wrists raised high and fingers-hands  loose seems to work best.

From repetition I'm able to do so many combinations of letters effortlessly without thinking. It will be interesting to see if in the coming year I move up into the 50s.

I'm just not the most coordinated guy but who knows.

I should mention that typing qwerty used to make my fingers and wrists a little sore but typing Colemak has been much better on them.