After 3 weeks of training, I could type 35-40wpm, then I started using Colemak full time.
My fastest typing records http://hi-games.net/profile/4314
My switching experience https://forum.colemak.com/viewtopic.php?id=970
Boli, were you using colemak full-time when collecting those stats? A year to get up to qwerty speeds is a bit depressing
Boli, were you using colemak full-time when collecting those stats? A year to get up to qwerty speeds is a bit depressing
Yes, I was using Colemak full-time. However: I stopped training after a few weeks and let the rest of the transition happen naturally (as you can read in my experiences thread). Note that I also switched keyboards twice in that year.
There are quite a few people who switched way faster than I did, Ryan Heise being one of the more popular ones - I think someone posted his progress graph a few posts further up.
Anyway, the important thing to take away is that it took me only 3 weeks to get to a very comfortable level (37 WPM in the 3 minute "The Enchanted Typewriter" test). I'm pretty sure I could have sped up progress by training regularly after reaching that, but I didn't feel the need to - I could do my job as a software engineer perfectly fine.
Also, what's 3 weeks or even a year compared to the next 30+ years of one's (typing) life?
