You've heard of Tarmak I hope? People who don't want to miss too much speed have used it to make the transition smoother. But preferences vary of course.

See my sig topics for more info. If you choose to use any of my stuff you'll have to install my files, but at least I have files both for Windows and Linux. ;-)

Being an avid computer user myself, even I can feel the punishments of qwerty on my typing, especially the darned S key being only one key over and still being on the home row.

And I have heard of Tarmak, it is just that I'd rather learn it outright, especially when I already memorized key placements.

My troubles as of right now are probably:

- S key placement (It is too easy to want to hit that R key)
- For some reason, I always hit P and L out of order....
- The stupid J key. While not common, is a really weird stretch... G for some reason works fine.
- Times when I go to hit the qwerty N key.

Not too shabby though. Call me an elitist.. Maybe I am... I just want to use a keyboard layout that makes sense to use.

I'll keep this updated in the following days, weeks or months.

I'm just trying to stay on the mission, especially when reverting to QWERTY seems too easy.

On a second note, If anyone knows of any places where I can just practice common words without interruption, that would be amazing.

Here are some tests if anyone is interested. It's my current peak so it has very positive results... But it is something:

http://thetypingcat.com/typing-speed-te … 5954e2e9b5

Welcome to the party! Just stick it out and all of your proficiency will come back. 35 wpm after 4 days is a great start. All of those annoyances will fade into the background eventually, just focus on precision over speed. The speed comes with precision.

When I started out learning to touch type, my speed was as slow as molasses, to the point I prayed for the day I'd hit 30/40 wpm.  You are doing really well already.  I'd wager that you'll regain your speed in a matter of months if you carry on at that rate.  I practiced common words, and I think that helps.  I copy pasted them into a text file (and randomised the order, and ordered them by ending) and loaded them into Klavaro.  But you could paste into other programs.  Good luck!

See also: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Most_comm … in_English

You've shown very fast progress. For exercise, try 1000 common words or something like that, it will make you type faster in average, since these common words has higher appearance frequency.

You should focus on accuracy (98% or higher), the speed will increase gradually.

Most likely you'll reach at least 100 WPM shortly if your QWERTY speeds really were 150 WPM. Check out Ryan Heise's conversion story if you wish.

I think that former typing speed with another layout is the main determinant for Colemak speed after a little while. So your "generic typing skills" will help you greatly.