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geekhack Community => Keyboards => Topic started by: ishtob on Fri, 09 December 2011, 01:44:10

Title: Making the switch to colemak!!
Post by: ishtob on Fri, 09 December 2011, 01:44:10

Doing this cold turkey, loaded up my DOX with colemak.

Been about a day, at around 35 wpm.... going to be typing up a 10 page paper next week, going to use that chance to practice :)

Title: Making the switch to colemak!!
Post by: Tony on Fri, 09 December 2011, 03:40:19

Nice to see another Colemak user, but you should create the thread in Alternative Layouts subforum.

Title: Making the switch to colemak!!
Post by: Foodmanchew on Sun, 11 December 2011, 03:57:40

Awesome, I'd love to make the switch, but it's dirty qwerty world out there.

Title: Making the switch to colemak!!
Post by: Tony on Sun, 11 December 2011, 04:57:40

Switching to Colemak requires considerable mental courage and physical fitness of your fingers.

After my own switching experience from Qwerty to Colemak (http://forum.colemak.com/viewtopic.php?id=970) I see that it is not for everyone but the brave and flexible in mindset.

The reward is a great typing feel though.

For anyone who don't know what Colemak is, here is the Colemak layout
(http://www.upl.co/uploads//Colemak2.jpg)

Title: Making the switch to colemak!!
Post by: hoggy on Sun, 11 December 2011, 05:22:05

I struggled with going from qwerty to dvorak - but it was so worth it in the end.  

Give a few months, you'll be amazed just how bad qwerty was!

Sounds like you're doing well - good to hear it.