Excellent stuff! How did you find out about Colemak by the way?

Welcome aboard. If you're looking for encouragement, ideas, and a healthy amount of humor, you've come to the right place. :) Best of luck, but I have a feeling you won't need luck once you've gotten into the swing of things.

Welcome to the crazy house ;)

Good luck, and keep on practicing, you will get there, I never regretted learning colemak, it has really made typing a lot more comfortable and fun for me.

Not sure what on earth could have inspired you to try the old way again, but this does make a good point. There is a very subjective but no less important aspect of Colemak that this speaks to - efficiency and all else aside, you may very well develop a preference based on what you've learned. I think maximal productivity has much to do with having a layout that you like and want to use above others. That preference makes typing a joy, not a chore.

It's a bit like using LaTeX versus writing in Word (though this is a flawed analogy in many ways). Can you do the same things in Word pretty quickly? Sure. But there will probably be a lot more that you dislike about the experience and more of your attention will be diverted to the process of editing rather than focusing on the content. The experienced LaTeX user will be able to compose what they want and have a blast doing it.

I just went the lazy route, and write most of my stuff in markdown and use a a converter to get latex, I loose out on flexibility, but gain on editing speed ;)

Best of luck, crabman! ^_^

Make sure you've read a little of the Big Bag to know all your options. I'm happy you chose Tarmak! But maybe you should decide already whether Colemak-Curl(DH) is your cup of tea. I like it a lot, but I've got an ISO keyboard which makes it more natural.

The stupid R key and its stupid sibling the S key are probably the worst rascals of the whole Colemak learning experience! Best of luck tackling them!

Lots of people use Colemak-DH aka Curl with the ANSI-Z Angle mod, so it seems safe enough if you're willing to mess up your Z position which I consider a small sacrifice.

As for MacOS, we have solutions for it. But unfortunately, not a complete Extend mapping layer yet since Sierra obviated Karabinier.

I was getting a bit impatient so I decided to skip stage 4 and go straight to full colemak. So far its going good, although I still need a lot more confidence because I tend to revert to querty when interrupted or when just starting to type. Once I get in the groove though it feels really good.