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I find the concept of learning colemak very intriguing. The qwerty layout is just so strange in some aspects. But the problem is that for my career (hospital me
by dillydogg 3y ago
I find the concept of learning colemak very intriguing. The qwerty layout is just so strange in some aspects. But the problem is that for my career (hospital medicine) I'm going to need to use random computers all the time. There's just no way to reliably use colemak. I talked to my hospital IT about whether they could attach an alternative layout to my account but it just wasn't in the cards.
In my office I have a moonlander where I use Qwerty but with home row mods which I think are great. But it always takes me a second to readjust back. I don't think I would enjoy going between colemak and qwerty on top of that.
- hellcow 3y agoI use Colemak as my daily driver, and I find it incredibly difficult to switch back and forth with QWERTY. The muscle memory just no longer works. Others say it’s easy for them, so YMMV. I had such severe wrist pain on QWERTY that the switch wasn’t an option.
- dillydogg 3y agoI just can't imagine trying to switch. I just don't have the time to commit to relearning a new keyboard layout anyways. The home row mods/ortholinear layout are enough of a mental switch for me. I used to have wrist pain from typing, but found when I started to focus on my ergonomics my symptoms improved. (thanks to the hospital ergonomics people for fixing my setup). I use a Planck with laptop and even on a 40% kb you can practice better posture to put less strain on your hands
- bongobingo1 3y agoI have a colemak-dh split and can still use qwerty with some adeptness, but I also dont touch a qwerty board very often (once a week or so for a few minutes). I think the split between forms helps, possibly thats an unspoken reason why some people can flip between better than others (whether thats split, ortho or 36key, etc to "normal qwerty").