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I switched to a variation on Colemak because I had used qwerty so long touch typing with left hand and pointer/ring only on the right that it was uncomfortable
by sanswork 10y ago
I switched to a variation on Colemak because I had used qwerty so long touch typing with left hand and pointer/ring only on the right that it was uncomfortable trying to learn to touch type from the home row.
- emodendroket 10y agoI'm hesitant to take up any of those because not being able to use other computers seems like too much of an impediment.
- sanswork 10y agoI can still type just as fast as I could before I switched on qwerty keyboards. I left my laptop keyboard qwerty and just switched my external keyboard to Colemak so I swap somewhat frequently depending on if I'm at my desk or on the couch/out of the house.
- thebelal 10y agoColemak changes relatively few keys from qwerty, especially compared to Dvorak. I use colemak full time and can still touch type qwerty reasonably fast.
- NoGravitas 10y agoI switched from QWERTY to Colemak about two years ago. When I had first gotten fully adapted to Colemak, and my typing speed in Colemak got up close to where my QWERTY speed had formerly been, my QWERTY speed took a big hit (down from 80 WPM to around 20 WPM). But now, two years on, I can touch-type QWERTY fast-enough (around 60 WPM). I kind of have to establish for myself a QWERTY context by starting to type while looking at the keyboard.