or unimpressive stasis?

I think my fingers may be topping out.

I believe that you reach a 'genetic' speed through day to day typing which if you want to exceed you have to actually specifically train.

At just shy of 80wpm I'm thinking maybe thats good enough though?

I certainly don't feel like typing is in anyway an impediment to my work as a software engineer..

(the d-h mod still isn't 100% though so theres prob a few wpm to be had there over time)

I'm not sure where the ceiling is, but I guess there are quite some factors playing into what is our typing speed, there are finger flexibility, and there is the speed that one manages to write accurately. There also the shape that you are in for the day, I know that some days I'm way speedier and a lot more correct than others for example.

But the thing is that ceilings can be pushed through, I'm doing rubiks cube speed solving for example, and in the beginning I had a ceiling on about a minute per solve, and it seemed not very likely to get any better from there. The next plateu was at around 40 sek, and I spent a couple of months just going around that speed before suddenly I managed 35 sek solves, I'm now at 29-30 seconds, and I'm back on a plateu again, there are different things that are holding me back, lookahead, flow and calmness are important just like in typing, it's quite a lot of an analogue really when one things about it.

Quite. Good speed typists have some quite long n-grams ingrained, usually commonly occurring word snippets. That way they have less "actions" to consider in their flow. These chunks may also involve alternative fingering at the higher levels.

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Have switched the m and k keys around as recommended by dreymar/stevep99

Also ditched the wide mod (still have angle mod). I had a good look at my hands and arms position and concluded the difference between wide and non-wide was negligible. I'll see how it goes...

Also started using monkeytype (ooh monkeytype contains ms and ks... nasty)

I think the single biggest advantage is the improved thumb key access it brings.

Oh, that's interesting, I didn't know Keyboard Co had got the Atreus in. I got my Ergo Pro from them originally. The biggest barrier to switching to non-traditional boards for me was always that they were mostly self-build kits, so it's good to see them increasingly being sold as consumer products!

The Atreus wasn't too hard to adapt to - I did do a short post about it at the time, but it weirdly it seems to have been vanished(!).  If you're already using angle mod, it's mostly pretty easy to adapt to. Most of the problem I had was with the index finger keys, e.g. P B G M L, as they are noticeably different. It only took a couple of days or so to get used it. As you say I was already used to using 4 thumb keys on my Ergo Pro, so that might be a factor that made switching easier. The Atreus is a solid choice I think, but I haven't tried the corne or most of the other designs for comparison though - but they look fairly similar for the most part. If you try Seniply let me know how it goes, I'm still weighing up possible changes here and there, so am open to improvements.

Bought an Atreus, arriving tomorrow supposedly.

I'm setting my expectations low in as much as I'm not expecting to be able to type on it at any speed for months!

OK so I'm typing this on the new Atreus.

I can see its going to take me a while to get used to.

I already have a million questions for Steve!

I've installed seniply

when typing numbers, are you tucking your right thumb under to hit the layer key right of the space then typing numbers with the same hand?

how does this compare with your atreus Steve? Have I got the keys in the right places?