It's not uncommon while you're still quite new. Just keep building your mileage, and you'll be fine.

I've type-read several books for mileage, which felt both fun and useful. See the BigBag Training page.

Oh, and: You're welcome to join our Discord server for more discourses.

I have a question about Keybr using the voyager keyboard

I have my Voyager successfully flashed for Colemak DH. And I have keybr set up to display a colemak keyboard on the screen. But when I press the Colemak he thinks I’m pressing a QWERTY key.

I can’t find where to make any adjustments, but apparently you do know how to use it. What am I possibly doing wrong?

Thanks in advance

Greg

I remember it kind of being the other way round.  When copying prose, I went slower (it's quite an odd thing to do really, I hope it unconsciously has helped improve my spelling), when typing from my mind it felt a little more liberating and faster.  But there's always the bottleneck of thinking speed.  The reality is, that when I am just spitting words on the page, I can go relatively fast, but then thinking, editing and reformulating - everything gets slowed down anyway.  It's great if you can get it out quick on a first draft or for instant messaging (that's a good way to practice too as it's likely more fun backing and forthing between friends).  Remember speech is about 150 wpm (unless you are Italian or Spanish, where it's about 500 wpm).  You might have a lightning fast brain where you think faster than you can talk or one like mine that crawls along like a tortoise.

It took me absolutely ages (as in years) to build up my WPM, I edged forward from 30 wpm to 80 wpm very, very slowly.  I haven't bothered to practice typing over the last couple of years, and I have even gotten to the point where I probably couldn't even tell you which finger hits what key anymore!  I occasionally fire up monkeytype where I burst at about 100 wpm on a good day.  Don't forget the default for monkeytype are the common words in the English language, and while they are worth practising you'll inevitably be faster on that word set through natural repetition so it is is skewed.

I think I used dvorak7min/gtypist to learn.  Or some other variant or fork of one of those.  Gtypist laid on heavy punctuation and random capitalisation, that was a complete drag from what I remember when starting out.  I shifted to software like Klavaro where I could paste in my own texts:  alphabetical sentences, common words, bigrams, trigrams, news stories, books etc.

Try chat.  You might find it's a little easier/faster/less restrictive.

I know when I am really going for it trying to type as fast as possible my brain feels like it can hardly breathe.  The thought of edging beyond 120wpm or doing that for normal text entry just seems unfathomable.