That sounds like a good amount of practice! And at your own tempo. When I started I did a lot of programming at uni with other people watching, so it didn't feel good to be slow. But it turned out allright :-)

Carry on, I'm sure you'll enjoy it!

I am using the new layout as promised. My speed is not very good at all. I finished all the TypeFaster lessons for new keys and am working on actual sentences now.

I find it very frustrating but I have to persevere.

Indeed. But if you're obstinate and decide to keep the "cold turkey" approach, you'll progress a bit faster. Up to you. That's how I started but if you have some deadlines you have to meet at your work, maybe you could work with both layouts in the beginning.

Good luck then. I wish you the pleasant hours of typing to come very soon so you can start enjoying the layout as we do.

I just did the first lesson in that thread and had 7 WPM and 92% accuracy . . .

More work ahead I think.

Definitely useful. I actually did the Left and Right hand a few days ago to boost a bit on the accuracy.

15 WPM and 93% accuracy with the 1000 most common words exercise. Man that one takes a lot of time when you type this slowly.

I am hovering around 15 WPM on the various tests and exercises and my accuracy is around 96% . . . I am still unwilling to work like this though. I do not want my writing to suffer because of my typing skills.

Dus doe ik het gewoon niet, eventjes dan. ;)

I am cycling through some practices on TypeRacer and the Nimbo sets with a lot of resting between sessions. I am writing emails, tweets, site updates and the like. All of that is just to get a bit of speed and accuracy back before I go to work again.

Also of note is that my wrist pain vanished. Probably has a lot to do with how much less typing I am doing but I am willing to give the layout some credit too. :)

You should try all TypeFaster lessons with at least 25wpm , 97% accuracy before doing any serious typing work.

On day 5 your speed is fine, but your accuracy need to be improved.

For RSI, you may consider buying a mechanical keyboard to make typing easier. Here is a Mechanical Keyboard Guide from overclock.net

http://www.overclock.net/keyboards/4917 … guide.html

I'm staying here for only 5 more months so I don't know if I'm going to learn the language very well but every single word you know on a foreign language is precious, I've learnt that. It was the same when I first came to Denmark about 3 years ago.

I'm not sure if you were talking to Tony or me but regardless – everybody's experience is different and it's hard to compare, especially, as you say, since you're new to touch typing. Many factors take place. The important thing is to feel good about the layout and I think the best way to achieve that is by achieving high accuracy. Funny I should say that since mine sucks the last month haha, but it's true.

And you have a fair point about Typeracer. It may be misleading if you're training exclusively on it, but it definitely helps.

PS: Haha, nice timing on our two posts. Keep up the good work! 97% accuracy in the first days is very good.

The more words of foreign languages you learn the easier the next language gets! :)