3 weeks in, but I was on holiday so I didn't practice much.

I'm mostly using keybr.com which in my opinion has excellent colemak exercises, really focusing on improving one's weaknesses. The rest is just normal typing, both at work and at home.

Switching cold turkey turned out to be not so painful, at least not as much I feared. Of course I still want to kill myself every time I have to write an email, but I'm motivated by thinking it's all good practice.

That been said, typing Colemak is AWESOME!! All newbie out there, wondering if it's worth switching: totally worth it! The satisfaction given by 2 and 3 finger rolls is unmatched. And the key disposition is so logical I keep asking why I tortured myself with QWERTY all these years :)

A little 10FF to keep track of progresses:

As mentioned, was 30 WPM before, so I can't complain :cool:

Thanks Tony! Your support is extremely appreciated

Or it might simply go unnoticed :P

Slowly getting better:

Interesting enough, among all letters, the one l'm having the more problems with is the Colemak 's'. I believe it being so close to its qwerty position makes my muscle memory confused all the time. Yet I don't have the same problem with 'u'? Maybe because I wasn't touch typing the 'u' before. Odd :)

And also there is a possible 3-finger roll on the left hand - but it depends on how often you need to use the word "arse"!!  :-P

Time for an update :)

After a quite long plateau at around 30 WPM, I decided I should dedicate some time each day to do typing training. Well, the results were immediate. In just a couple of week, I went from the mentioned 30 WPM to

Now I'm constantly around 50 WPM, which is way faster than my previous QWERTY speed.

I agree with you completely: focusing on accuracy is what makes the difference at the end.

It seems silly when you're a newbie and you just want to go fast, and every guru says you should concentrate on typing right rather than fast, but at the end that's exactly what gives you the improvements.

Something funny that happened to me: when I started slowing down and trying to be more accurate, I arrived at the end of the test thinking I would be around 40 WPM, and with great surprise I got my best scores (50+)! So it is true!

Thanks for the encouragement! I said it and I'll repeat again: the biggest added value of Colemak is its community!

Some of my fastest speeds have been achieved when I'm trying to focus only on accuracy as well. I think that partly the relaxation aspect of not racing helps and you also avoid frustration of making mistakes.

The community here is great and very supportive. They gave me the encouragement to carry on despite my wife being very frustrated when I leave my colemak layout active on our PC at home :)