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Do not try to type fast. Think about every keypress to get near 100% accuracy. And don't overdo it either, your brain needs to lay down new neural pathways, try to get enough sleep and, again, do not strive to get fast(er).

Oh, and keybr is brutal and frustrating. Personally, I don't like it and wouldn't recommend it. Others do, so that seems to differ.

I remember using it for fun in my QWERTY-times and drilling the same key on a pinkie got me stuck on 98+% confidence over and over and over and over again so I got pain and cramps. I told me it's not what I would consider improving my typing but want out of my life.

Typing accurate but slow had me repeat the same keys again and again. Typing fast but with very bad accuracy got me through all the keys in no time.

That's stupid. It's harmful to your typing skill and makes you feel bad, physically and mentally, when you should just enjoy the new hobby! I hate keybr.

When learning Colemak I therefore switched to https://first20hours.github.io/keyzen-colemak for which exist many forks, probably also for your layout. Makes you type the letters, learning one after the other. If you mistype, it has you type the wrongly pressed and missed key repeatedly correct before it proceeds to the next letter.

Once I could locate all the keys well I used https://gnusenpai.net/colemakclub to engrave the homerow and additional letters in increasing stages.

Today I still use those sites to refresh key positions or as a warmup exercise.

After that came monkeytype 1k (skip 200!), always correct errors, always retrain mistyped words.

I use english 1k, 100 words and only aim for accuracy with currently 99,82% avg acc. Speed improves all by itself, but it does not interest me (yeah, it does, because it is shoved in your face just everywhere, but I know being accurate is my true metric)

Don't rush, there are no prizes of meaning to win on any site. What you gain and may keep are the many new skills: a cool new layout, focused typing, improved concentration, better frustration tolerance, better stress resistance, well developed confidence and a proudness of what you have achieved all by yourself.

Currently I am training with https://problemwords.com and Amphetype (automatically fail and repeat a lesson if below 98,5% acc, considering higher but some interpunctuation is really hard) but I am revisiting all of the above to get a mixture.

Your keyboard looks awesome, indeed! Very smooth and soft, may it calm and comfort you a little on your learning adventure.

Myself, I have switched from manymany years of touch typing QWERTY to Colemak DH some months (already?!) ago. The first days were brutal with constant headache, deep thinking before pressing a single key and really no wpm to speak of. Now I am much better so let me tell you: hang on, it's a steep climb but you. will. get. there.

Do not let you tell yourself you are bad or dumb or worse or slower than other people. I did that. But - the facts speak for themselves, I constantly improve in my own speed.

Focus on accuracy. Everything below 98% is not good enough to attempt a speed run (okay, once in a while to loosen up or for fun, but don't take it as a measurement of your progress). Just slow down, take your time, try to enjoy. Don't be fast, be accurate, because that's the only thing that carries you the long way and opens up later improvements. Try to avoid adopting bad habits because you want to be fast - be accurate. Especially at the beginning this is extremely important. When switching layouts you get the unique chance to train yourself again good form, don't let this pass.

Try to enjoy the time, nobody judges your progress. Be proud. Calmly accept this takes a while. It's fine. 🐣

Wow I love your arrow keys, that's brilliant

I didn't use any training tools, I just forced myself to do the work that I normally do, using the ortholinear layout. I didn't try to type fast or brute force things, I went slow as hell and backspaced when I screwed up. I had to apologize to several coworkers and clients that were waiting on me to finish typing something, I just told them I was using a weird ergonomic keyboard and still getting the hang of it.

But after a couple weeks I was just as fast on ortholinear as QWERTY.

One thing that surprised me is that I don't really have a problem switching back to QWERTY, and then right back to ortholinear. I was expecting that to be a problem, but I'm happy that it's not.

I buy corne and at the same time I switch from query to colemak-hd and learn blind typing as well. First several days it was slow as hell. But I didn't rush myself. I tried to type with 100% accuracy so my brain is sure where every letter is placed. Humps are very helpful for this. I glue small wood pieces(from toothpick) to the key caps and my brain learn where to move my fingers for every letter. Accuracy is very important for this.

Make an account on monkeytype and practice 1 hour a day. Look at the stats, you should improve in a week or two.

When I switched layout first time (qwerty -> Colemak dh) it took me 2-3 weeks to learn it. Recently I switched again (canary) and it took me around a week of practicing around 2h a day to go to 60wmp English 1k. Then I just started using it at work.

Now I'm switching to Piantor and it's difficult even without switching layout.

I think you have to be patient and also keep track of your progress to motivate you.

What layout is that?

What keyboard layout is this? I've never seen this layout before.

only write on it from now on, and it will slowly but surely become second nature

This is what makes me skip over these cool looking custome keyboards since I started seeing them 5years ago. Only today did I see a really neat looking one with carbon fiber base that got me thinking.

But nah...

Looks like your letters are all wonky

Bon courage à toi. Le modèle de clavier à un nom particulier?

Why are you people doing this to yourselves. These are keyboards for masochists!