Welcome!

Interesting approach, keep us posted on how it goes, and good luck!
If, by any chance, you haven't seen them, you could check out http://play.typeracer.com/ and http://hi-games.net/ .

Yes, we've all been there. And your difficulties are quite normal for this stage. After a while you won't be bothered by them.

Keep it up.

Joined Typeracer today as the next step in my training.  Did three practice sessions.

Round 1
1:03
22 wpm
94.1%

Round 2
1:04
31 wpm
97.1%

Round 3
1:19
29 wpm
97%

Then I decided to go to the Instant Death version (100% accuracy).  Talk about an exercise in frustration!  ;)  I think it took almost an hour (on and off) before I managed to finally get all the way through one without a mistake.  It was only mildly embarrassing when the program downgraded me to a beginner level.  :P  But still:
1:02
22 wpm
100%

@Tony_VN - I think your suggestion about swapping it up will be very helpful, just so I don't get completely burned out.

Agreed.  I think that the biggest challenge for me right now is getting both the fingers and brain together when I type.  When I am trying to flow thoughts onto the page (either for a work document or for my novel), it seems that I make a lot more errors. Actually typing quickly something that I am reading and typing something that is in my head are two separate things.  I think that a lot of it comes from getting the muscle memory built.  When I am typing what I read, the brain only has to concentrate on one thing - type the word.  With the other, you are having to do composition as well, thinking about word choice, sentence structure, and grammar.  I even miss entire words because I have to concentrate so much on getting the letters right.  I would say that people need to have a portion of their practice be composing things as well, not just practicing typing things that they have to read.  Still, that's how a lot of the muscle memory will be built.

I am getting much more fluid on the games and my speed is improving. A lot of the accuracy problems are coming from getting flustered on a word and having my brain shut off for a moment, so I end up having to fix the same word four or five times before getting it right.  From the standard races on Typeracer, my last three:

33 WPM     88.6%     3/5     today
33 WPM     89.8%     2/5     today
28 WPM     91.5%     1/4     today

From the 100% accuracy races:
4    32 wpm    moments ago
3    32 wpm    14 minutes ago
2    26 wpm    19 hours ago
1    25 wpm    19 hours ago

Based on the fluidity of the typing I am now doing, I'm going to revise my initial estimate of my old Qwerty speed as closer to 40 rather than 50 wpm.  I don't think I was all that fast now.

Flow is the sensation I am after, where I don't think about what I am typing as much as I worry about what I am saying.  The accuracy training is good though.  I like that ut does make me slow down and be a little more conscious about what I am type.

Your typing skills are exercised in several phases

1. Muscle memory:
You can touch type what's on screen.

2. Muscle memory integrated with brain's hearing part.
You can touch type what are being dictated to you.

3. Muscle memory integrated with brain's thinking part.
You can touch type what you are thinking.

4. Muscle memory integrated with the whole YOU
You sit there, do nothing, just watch and adore yourself. Your brain and your fingers do it all.

To reach that final level where your typing skills are effortlessly integrated with all parts of your brain, it would take several years.

Moved over to Amphetype last week as a way to try and break out of the rut I was in on Typeracer - not a typing rut but a practice rut - and have loved/hated it.  I love the feature that allows me to type a book (reading A Princess of Mars right now) and the analysis features, but hate how hard it is to practice the words that I have missed in the section.  ;)

I am consistently in the 40's  with about 95% accuracy.  I am maintaining my Qwerty, though my speed has dropped a little and I will occasionally revert back to Colemak fingerings even while looking at the keyboard.

Wow, another successful story.

Good luck on your path. I think your courage to go Colemak all the way will be very useful for others when they reach the middle of the road when all they need is a little motivation before plunging to the unknown Colemak valley.