Got proficient with Dvorak two decades ago but it didn’t really give any tangible benefits over qwerty. It’s nice in theory but doesn’t really pan out in practice.
Since I already knew how to touchtype in qwerty, colemak-dh was really easy to learn (as far as new layouts go).
To prevent myself from looking down at my hands while learning, I made this legend, printed it out and hung it just under my display: https://codepen.io/spartanatreyu/pen/XWBeyRd
Just as with any layout, if you don’t do explicit training you will hit a natural performance plateau.
If you’ve never done type training before, you need to do more than 10 mins a day on a dedicated training app to see any results. I did 15 mins a night while I had dinner cooking. After 3 months I was back to my normal typing speed post-training qwerty typing speed.
Also, if you have the opportunity to get a split keyboard, you can do this neat thing where you can put the brackets along the inner columns of the keyboards, you can see me doing that here: https://configure.zsa.io/moonlander/layouts/Mvngb/latest/1
Colemak DH.
Got proficient with Dvorak two decades ago but it didn’t really give any tangible benefits over qwerty. It’s nice in theory but doesn’t really pan out in practice.
Since I already knew how to touchtype in qwerty, colemak-dh was really easy to learn (as far as new layouts go).
To prevent myself from looking down at my hands while learning, I made this legend, printed it out and hung it just under my display: https://codepen.io/spartanatreyu/pen/XWBeyRd
Just as with any layout, if you don’t do explicit training you will hit a natural performance plateau.
I did some colemak dh training here: https://gnusenpai.net/colemakclub/
If you’ve never done type training before, you need to do more than 10 mins a day on a dedicated training app to see any results. I did 15 mins a night while I had dinner cooking. After 3 months I was back to my normal typing speed post-training qwerty typing speed.
Also, if you have the opportunity to get a split keyboard, you can do this neat thing where you can put the brackets along the inner columns of the keyboards, you can see me doing that here: https://configure.zsa.io/moonlander/layouts/Mvngb/latest/1
I like the brackets thing, might give that a go!