Welcome – va kul va! Hope you've looked at my sig topics to know your options. In particular, the Extend mod is very awesome. As a vim user, you can relate.

Also, these days some prefer a DH-mod (mine and SteveP's being the main ones).

Since you've started learning already, I don't suppose we can interest you in the Tarmak experience? ^_^

Yes, it actually is "kul", however not everyone around really gets the fun in typing so slowly again or to what use it is. We'll see in some weeks time!

I looked at the Tarmak but I was a bit reluctant to changing a couple of things at a time. I imagine it would confuse me, however from what I read people find it much helpful. Then again I'm stubborn and think if I go all in at once I just have to learn faster. We'll see how that pans out but I did learn the layout in my head in just a short time. Now if only my fingers could move the same way ...

I don't have any problems with vim actually, sure hjkl is not on my home row but they are still within reach and I recall the actual letter for movement instead of muscle memory so it's working out. I will look into extended mode later on though as there are some advantages I'd like to try out. But first I want to get the ordinary letters going and some wpm speed up. I use Colemak now as default on my computers, but I had to regress to qwerty while taking notes in meetings as I was way too slow. Luckily in my work outside meetings it's not crucial for me to speed type so I can get along with my 15 wpm on Colemak. I see some small steady improvements in speed every day which is nice.

Wow, that is thorough. :-)

I do believe that your thorough methodogy may get in the way of rapid results. Multilingual kids often lag behind at first. But eventually, of course, they grow up multilingual which is a strength in itself!

So if you're really dead set to keep your QWERTY skills, both US and locale, then probably your way is best – but expect it to be a bit slow.

Not sure if you remember learning how to touch type Qwerty and your speed?  If it's any consolation, when I started out with Dvorak, I remember being stuck around the 17WPM mark thinking it would never look up.  And even thinking I'd be satisfied with a comfortable 30 or 40WPM.   But eventually it clicks.  I was only trying to get familiar with the one layout however.  (Blimey that was 7 years ago.)  Got a stubborn W key on the laptop that is impeding speed and comfort at the moment, even so, I just scored 80WPM on tenfastfingers.

I type in https://10fastfingers.com/ every morning at work, then I enter the score into a spreadsheet which produce the merry chart.

In the beginning I did a test in the afternoon as well and also ran three tests on every setting, but I quickly grew tired of that. :P

That kind of stagnation is expected. Please focus on accuracy, and the speed will go up on its own accord.

Hej, och välkommen.

Do you use AltGr+{q,w,;} for the Swedish letters or did you find something better?

I also use Vim keys (Emacs' evil-mode) in their standard locations, and since starting Colemak about 6 months ago I'm happy to say that the Vim commands and movements (hjkl) feel completely natural nowadays.

I think writing Swedish with Colemak doesn't feel quite as fluent as English, though. Probably it would improve a lot by just remapping the umlaut letters to better keys, but I haven't gotten around to it.

Hi,

yes I use the standard settings. I thought I would start to learn the standard setup first and see if I wanted to deviate later on. So far I haven't felt a need. Also a lot of my everyday writing is in English.

Tjäna, Jimmy! ^_^

As said before: Check out my locale layouts. If you don't like AltGr for äöå, then Colemak[eD] will make it easier and a localized Swedish Colemak[eD] even easier than that!