I'm a couple of days into my cold turkey... it's a bit up and down. I've got COLEMAK both at home and work.

I was looking briefly at DVORAK, and was surprired how easy it was to become familiar with the layout.

COLEMAK also was easy enough to pick up. I rarely have to check the layout I've got under the monitor now, but it feels very slow :(.

I first learned touch typing 8 or 9 years ago and initially got to about 60wpm, but I haven't kept the practice up, and measured myself at only 43wpm the other day.

Changed directly over to COLEMAN and I measured 6wpm.

I've been practicing over at http://keybr.com/, starting just on the home row. After starting the lessons I managed 9wpm the next day and 18-20wpm the next couple of days. Not sure doing it row by row is a good thing or not?

Just tested over at http://www.powertyping.com/typing_test/ … test.shtml on normal text and managed around the 18 mark (with a few mistakes).

I like many others here am finding s & r very difficult. I'm only using COLEMAK, except when I have to remote into another machine at work.

I really like the idea of DVORAK and COLEMAK, but it's pretty hard for the first bit.

Thanks for all your efforts and support.