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To give my personal impression, as someone who switched to neo [0] about 2 years ago. To be fair I only had about 20 years of QWERTZ & QWERTY experience before

To give my personal impression, as someone who switched to neo [0] about 2 years ago. To be fair I only had about 20 years of QWERTZ & QWERTY experience before that. 1. For me it took about a year or so until I surpassed my QWERTY typing speed with certainty. I typed about 80-90 wpm on QWERTY and currently type at about 90-100 wpm on neo. 2. Yes, it's not a big issue. I rarely type QWERTY nowadays, but whenever I have to it clicks after a few minutes and I can type at maybe 70% the speed I typed at before. I'm certain were I to use it more, I would be able to type both at my "native" speeds. I also relearned all my emacs shortcuts pretty quickly. Using emacs is harder on QWERTY now, but fortunately I pretty much never have to do that now. 3. Due to 2, it's not really a problem. The actual problem is the other way round. You cannot easily give someone else access to your computer. It can be a bit annoying to change keyboard layouts each time someone else wants to quickly use your computer. Hope that gives some perspective. [0]: https://neo-layout.org https://neo-layout.org

AlphaGeekZulu 5y ago
> I typed about 80-90 wpm on QWERTY and currently type at about 90-100 wpm on neo. This is really fast and a true improvement. I am currently at 90 wpm and do not feel I could improve that much (German has special characters äöüß and a lot of capitals). > I rarely type QWERTY nowadays, but whenever I have to it clicks after a few minutes and I can type at maybe 70% the speed I typed at before. Interesting, so it might actually be possible to have multiple sets of muscle memory for the same thing! > It can be a bit annoying to change keyboard layouts each time someone else wants to quickly use your computer. Someone else will face much more difficulties using my computer than just the keyboard layout. 30 years of customization have made my computer very individual. ;-) Thanks for sharing!
1MachineElf 5y ago
As someone who switched to Dvorak 6 years ago, I understand there is potential for a lot to be gained by switching to non-QWERTY layouts. I do wonder about what I should try next. Neo is one that looks especially interesting to me.

AlphaGeekZulu 5y ago

> I typed about 80-90 wpm on QWERTY and currently type at about 90-100 wpm on neo. This is really fast and a true improvement. I am currently at 90 wpm and do not feel I could improve that much (German has special characters äöüß and a lot of capitals). > I rarely type QWERTY nowadays, but whenever I have to it clicks after a few minutes and I can type at maybe 70% the speed I typed at before. Interesting, so it might actually be possible to have multiple sets of muscle memory for the same thing! > It can be a bit annoying to change keyboard layouts each time someone else wants to quickly use your computer. Someone else will face much more difficulties using my computer than just the keyboard layout. 30 years of customization have made my computer very individual. ;-) Thanks for sharing!

1MachineElf 5y ago

As someone who switched to Dvorak 6 years ago, I understand there is potential for a lot to be gained by switching to non-QWERTY layouts. I do wonder about what I should try next. Neo is one that looks especially interesting to me.