I came to a similar conclusion about trying to learn popular layouts. I was always somewhat curious, but on a few occasions I had shooting pains down the back o

I came to a similar conclusion about trying to learn popular layouts. I was always somewhat curious, but on a few occasions I had shooting pains down the back of my right hand, and I couldn't type or mouse with it for days. I looked at Colemak (and the Tarmak training layouts) which seemed unnecessarily complicated, so I made my own transitional layout. First keeping most of the keys on the 'same fingers' but not necessarily same column as Qwerty (the P and R swap hands and O changes finger): Q W D F {P} Y U K L ; A S E T G H N I {R}[O] Z X C V B J M , . The transition was fairly painless, so I went down that rabbit-hole and ended up making what I call the Qwickly layout[0] (with QwickSteps training layouts)[1]. The final layout I'm using is: Q W U D P Z H Y L , A S E T G F N I R O K X C V J B M ; . I can still type in Qwerty but I have to look at the keyboard for a while until the muscle memory kicks in again. [0] https://github.com/qwickly-org/Qwickly https://github.com/qwickly-org/Qwickly [1] https://github.com/qwickly-org/QwickSteps https://github.com/qwickly-org/QwickSteps