I do a fair amount of typing every day, but I'm not constantly typing. Being slower at it still leaves me at 80% productivity or so. I picked up a Moonlander

I do a fair amount of typing every day, but I'm not constantly typing. Being slower at it still leaves me at 80% productivity or so. I picked up a Moonlander (https://www.zsa.io/moonlander/ https://www.zsa.io/moonlander/) last year. Between the ortholinear positioning and the new layout, I dropped from ~130wpm to ~60wpm (a bit faster for just letters and numbers, a bit slower every time I had to remember where I put a symbol or modifier). The first week was slow, and in the process I quickly realized what keys I was dearly missing and a few I wasn't using, and I tweaked my layout a number of times in the first 2-3 weeks. That said, by the end of the first week I was no longer hunting for keys and becoming comfortable, and by the end of week 3 I was back above 90wpm comfortably. I haven't felt inhibited by the keyboard in a long time - it's been a while since I took a speed test, so no idea if I'm back at the full speed I was before - but I suspect I am. The old muscle memory doesn't fade either. I was concerned that I would have issues going back to laptops or other machines with staggered QWERTY layouts, but in practice I'm just as fast typing on my laptop as I ever was.