You are welcome, Pavel. Great to hear that you like Colemak and find it useful just like we do.

Hello, and it's nice to welcome another Scandinavian to Colemak!  :)

Hi pafkata90,

I didn't notice your location until now.. Are you studying at the university? I'm at the computer science dept.

I think Colemak is okay for Danish, but not nearly as good as for English. I might be influenced because I did many more English Colemak lessons than Danish ones during the initial learning, but Danish still has some unlucky digrams. Still better than qwerty though, I think.

Sure thing... Are you in the campus area? You could come visit our Friday bar on.... well... Friday! I'll be having a beer or two after my semester project exam is over, at least :-)

Damn... Just broke the 100 wpm barrier. And I DIDN'T pass the test :D So it didn't save the score... Next time I'll stop the music and concentrate more haha

PS: Hah. Never mind. I just did it again and this time I passed the test. I guess today is my day ;).

Hey Pavel,

Can I ask you how many words you look ahead? I think it is impossible to type 100+ wpm without looking at least 3-5 words ahead.

I can't seem to go beyond 70 wpm and I can only look head 1 word... :(

Also, do you use normal or more "advanced" keyboard (mechanical, ergonomic, etc.)?

An update: I haven't been typing a whole lot the last few months, and only been practising every 2nd or 3rd day for the last couple of weeks, I think. When I remain calm and keep my accuracy high, there's no problem to keep the speed relatively high. In typeracer now I stay above 90 wpm. On longer texts I usually keep around ~85. Boosts above 100 are more often now.
Here's an image of my last typeracer session – not particularly good one cause I'm lazy but still:

Yes, I found that xx → X definitely shines when it comes to typing the symbols on the number row, but when you're coding you probably have switched the numbers and the symbols.

I know what you're saying about the accuracy. I get good results only when I focus on it and not on speed but after a little while of flawless very quick typing I get into the trap of pushing it a bit too carelessly and errors come again. At the moment almost all my 5min tests end on 85-86 wpm. If I do it without all the errors I assume I could finish at 88-90 wpm. If I want more rapid improvement I'll have to do some drills I feel. To get my fingers move a bit more independently. Right now I feel like I'm typing only with memorised di- and trigraphs and when it comes to type some really uncommon combination of letters I have to slow down a lot. Funny enough I also sometimes mistake D and G, which I've got no clue why is happening. A couple of accuracy drills will fix me, I think.

My fastest ever? Hm... Probably the type racer 109 wpm, which you can actually see at the bottom of the shot. But I actually saw 117 wpm after the first two lines a couple of times but I guess I got too excited and couldn't keep it up.

I do that as well. Remnants from qwerty?

I also make what I term reverse qwerty errors. For example, a qwerty error is hitting colemak D instead of colemak G because colemak D is qwerty G. The reverse qwerty error would then be hitting colemak G instead of colemak D because _qwerty_ G is colemak D. Another example is typing colemak I instead of colemak E because qwerty I is on the colemak E finger.

I think that most of my errors these days are transposition (swapping two adjacent letters in a word happens fairly often, and sometimes I "jump the gun" and write a letter that I'm planning to write later in the word).

In other words, not layout related.

Yes I have done so, I made the capsLock key as a switch between symbols and numbers, but the problem is that I placed the caps lock at the Left CTRL key on QWERTY and I do not like to hit it every time I want to switch( my left hand is lazy :) ), and I happen to make use of numbers more in my every day activities such as logging into my accounts. If I have to switch between numbers and symbols very often it would be annoying to hit the capslock at that position, and I only plan to use it for programming where i do not have to press it that much.

I would strongly argue against this. Take the lesson below for example, when I started dvorak and  was 10WPM below my Colemak speed I was typing the lesson by around 10WPM faster than Colemak!!! The reason is that it takes more time and practice for your hand to get acquainted to narrow backward rolls and jumping between rows like when you type "iou" on Colemak for example. I must admit though if you practiced enough you would improve on this aspect which I have noticed at the end days of using Colemak, where my accuracy started to improve. But of course, this consumes more time and I want to do it with less time and more efficiency as I am do it now on Dvomak (81 WPM 5-minutes).

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yes I thought of this but have not researched how to do it :). I plan to use Ubuntu more often now, so I want something more universal.