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At 120+ WPM on QWERTY, is it worth the switch to Colemak?
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Two months later, I finally broke 100 WPM. Today, I hit 102 on Typing Test! I think I stopped diligently practicing and testing myself after two weeks, so... XP
My next goal? Surpass 120 WPM.
Nowadays, I look around at people at my uni typing on their laptops in QWERTY... and I laugh to myself as I watch their fingers fly around. Maybe one day I'll bring my laptop and just type quietly in Colemak and compare to their QWERTY flailing. :P
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esplanade said:
Two months later, I finally broke 100 WPM. Today, I hit 102 on Typing Test! I think I stopped diligently practicing and testing myself after two weeks, so... XP
My next goal? Surpass 120 WPM.
Nowadays, I look around at people at my uni typing on their laptops in QWERTY... and I laugh to myself as I watch their fingers fly around. Maybe one day I'll bring my laptop and just type quietly in Colemak and compare to their QWERTY flailing. :P
wow you hit 100+ so quickly...that's great. So is practice the main reason that you've reached such a speed so fast?
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esplanade said:
Nowadays, I look around at people at my uni typing on their laptops in QWERTY... and I laugh to myself as I watch their fingers fly around. Maybe one day I'll bring my laptop and just type quietly in Colemak and compare to their QWERTY flailing. :P
...and they're probably laughing to themselves thinking about how you "wasted" 2+ months of lost productivity only to end up 20+% slower. ;)
By the way, can you give us details on your practicing methods? I stalled at the 80wpm mark (although on hi-games, I could hit 85wpm sometimes) so I just gave up and went back to a modified dvorak.
(Also, when I stopped practicing for a week, my speed dropped to between 60-75wpm, so I guess I'm different in that respect.)
Have you encountered any words/phrases you don't particularly like typing on colemak? Which words/phrases are you fastest at typing?
Thanks, and congrats on breakin' 100!
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I am in a similar position to where you were. I was at 120+ on QWERTY (gained, I think, by "pressure-typing" and a piano-player's dexterity) and hopefully I can also make quick progress with Colemak. :-)
However, I know it will be difficult as I am comparing against 1000's of hours of QWERTY. If you asked me to type a letter on QWERTY then I probably couldn't do it most of the time! , but I had thousands of common words "under my fingers", and I fear I will not be able to replicate that kind of parsing in Colemak for years.
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I too am interested in your methods esplanade. I have just switched to Colemak today from QWERTY (about 50 wpm), and am keen to know how you managed to learn the new layout so quickly.
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Kolya said:
I am in a similar position to where you were. I was at 120+ on QWERTY (gained, I think, by "pressure-typing" and a piano-player's dexterity) and hopefully I can also make quick progress with Colemak. :-)
Piano playing should definitely help you with Colemak. Even though I am more of a cocktail/jazz player myself, I certainly found the ideas of rolls and the light whole arm movement some classically trained friends have shown me to be of help in technique with Colemak.
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