I switched to typing using neo [0] about 2 years ago. The beginning was hard. I went in with a 100% neo from day 1 approach. The second day I had to respond to

I switched to typing using neo [0] about 2 years ago. The beginning was hard. I went in with a 100% neo from day 1 approach. The second day I had to respond to a mail that would normally take a couple of minutes. Took me like 45 that day. The most surprising thing to me though was that while it's painful to be so slow in the beginning from a "being productive" point of view, the actual issue is another: it takes a significant mental toll to learn a new keyboard layout. The first week or so I was mentally exhausted after typing for 5-10 min in a row. Fighting the urge of my fingers to jump to QWERTY was really hard and took immense concentration. After about 3 months, I was at 70 wpm or so and improved steadily from there. Now around ~100 wpm depending on what I type (which is a bit quicker than using QWERTY, mainly due to being more accurate though; reached 100wpm peak on QWERTY and now peak at maybe 120). Things of note: - relearning Emacs shortcuts was much easier than I feared. Changed 1 or 2 shortcuts to make them nicer, but the basic ones I left - I can still type on QWERTY reasonably well. Takes a few minutes, then my brain clicks and it feels more or less normal to type again. Only programming is hard in it now (fortunately not needed) - didn't change to neo on my phone. Still typing QWERTY there - it's much more convenient to type for my hands. Still want a split keyboard though. - the additional layers of neo are an absolute game changer (having things like arrows under my hands, typing greek letters and all sorts o other unicode symbols is amazing) [0]: https://neo-layout.org https://neo-layout.org