The fact is that it just takes time.  I'm in my second month and average about 60wpm where my qwerty was 80wpm.  The jury seems to be out as to whether alternative formats are actually faster. However, if you had never really focused on qwerty before and are now focusing on Colemak, you should be able to improve your old qwerty speed at least somewhat.

I used keybr.com extensively for the first month.  I think it was extremely effective.  Keep in mind that you must change the keyboard layout to US Colemak in your keybr settings to do it "right".

Once my keybr speed was past 30wpm I started using Amphetype.  I still use it daily in my hopes to get back over 80wpm.  We shall see.

In short, it just seems to take time, and you can only go so fast.  Your brain needs lots of sleep cycles overnight to reprogram itself and there is no real way to rush that fundamental problem.  I do think based on my experience though that after 60 days of daily practice you should at least be competent enough in the new layout such that you're not too frustrated.

Its about more than 2 months now ant I glad to say that I am at a point where typing in colemak isn't awkward. I actually enjoy it now and qwerty feels weird for me now.
I have reached 30-40wpm. But my accuracy isn't that good I have noticed especially when I want to type fast. Are there any suggestions on how I can boost my accuracy?
Also how do I up my typing speed from here?

on boosting accuracy, redo typing exercises repeatedly until you exceed 98% accuracy

amphetype is good for this as you can set the accuracy threshold that must be exceeded prior to allowing you to move on to the next section

in typeracer you can redo a race until it turns 'green'

you'll probably have to slow down a bit to succeed but thats fine - as they say, you have to slow down to speed up..

Check out my Big Bag topic concerning Amphetype and Typing Of The Dead. Depending on your preferences, they both are great ways of upping accuracy and other typing skills.

I know that it is recommended not to use Colemak on Android but heck I have been using it for quite some time and I actually like it. Except that the text prediction doesnt work so well. Any one know of any good alternatives to Gboard that has better text prediction on Android

I started touch typing with Dvorak (was a rabid random sometimes hunt and pecker).  And I found it agonisingly slow to begin with and wanted raw speed.  I used gtypist.  Which is a hard task master.  I just sat through the first round of the Dvorak course, and was pretty bad at it.  The finger patterns are so different from 'normal' words that it is no wonder that I struggled.  In the end I just picked common word lists and ran them through Klavaro and/or Amphetype.  I figured that if you have the top 100 or so words down pat, the rest can follow.  Having said that I'm still not the fastest typist.  I stopped caring the moment I stopped thinking about typing.  Of course that's easier said than done. My style is varied.  I float some of the time.  I started out not doing so, and I think that strained my fingers somewhat.  As time goes by I think your hands and fingers will try and naturally take short-cuts.  I had a friend that bought a very little keyboard just so he could rest his palms and reach all the keys without straining.  I definitely move my hands when tackling the number row - I'm not that great with that row to be honest.

Just out of curiosity does any one here use colemak for programming?
is colemak optimized for even programming?
Also I might be crazy but I actually started using colemak full time on my android device and kind of liking it as well. slightly annoying at times but still doable :)

thanks! also have you guys ever experienced this feeling of wanting to go back to qwerty? I have been having a lot lately but I am enjoying colemak even though my typing speed is nowhere were I want it to be. But now qwerty feels soo awkward to type on that I sometimes even hate attempting to type on qwerty (dont know why I even change my layout to qwerty). I guess that feeling will be there till I actually get to the typing speed I want to get to so that I dont feel like a newbie in colemak.
Thanks I will checkout the macro section.

thanks!

I guess the reason for me  to feel that way is that I am still not there yet in terms of speed and accuracy. I do enjoy the layout now though certainly can see that my fingers dont go all over the place that much.
I guess I really need to do the typing lessons to up my speed and accuracy.
I still haven't looked at the mod you suggested will do that over the weekend and let you know how it goes

Extend should be used by the entire world, including Qwerty users!

The Poker programmable layer can be used to create something very much like Extend, yes. But its Fn layer is nothing like Extend! It's just a haphazard collection of extended keys, hardly optimized for anything as far as I can see.

The true power of Extend lies in the ability to hit, e.g., Ext+S+T+N (Shift+Ctrl+Left) to select the previous word, Ext+C to copy it, Ext+T+Y (Ctrl+End) to move to the end of the document and Ext+V to paste there. All in a smooth flow while holding down the Extend key.

In other words, home row modifiers are a great boon to Extend. And I've yet to see any preprogrammed Fn layer anywhere near as good. I don't know what those keyboard makers are thinking, but they clearly haven't tried the full power of an optimized mapping layer!