Very interesting, thanks. I especially love the hard data and graph. But it still makes me wonder:
“but it took me just 2 months to get to 65 wpm. I’m at 120 wpm a year later. I maxed out at 125 for Qwerty”
This effort to switch is quite big. Let’s assume 2 hours of ‘pure’ typing per day based on querty speed. So I have to type 15k words. I’ll average the first 2 months at 35 wpm - it means 90 * 120 / 35 - 5 more hours each day 😅
So around 200 hours in the first 2 months.
The next 10 months I’ll average 95 wpm - around 40 minutes more each day, ~130 hours.
Assuming after 2 years I’ll jump straight to 185 wpm. So this time I save 40 minutes a day. It’ll take me 3 years to get the time I invested 😅
I won’t argue it’s a smart investment for the long term, as I’m just at the beginning of my career. But still, 5 years is a lot of time, and it is a frustrating process (I gave up after around 10 hours).
Who knows, maybe in 5 years we won’t need to type anymore 😅 I’m already typings much less when I code due to ChatGPT, I’m mostly adjusting and fixing.
If you ever go on vacation for a week or two, worth a shot trying. The keyboard will give you most of the short term benefits with the layer ability. Key layout benefits are longer term due to less finger pain.
Very interesting, thanks. I especially love the hard data and graph. But it still makes me wonder:
“but it took me just 2 months to get to 65 wpm. I’m at 120 wpm a year later. I maxed out at 125 for Qwerty”
This effort to switch is quite big. Let’s assume 2 hours of ‘pure’ typing per day based on querty speed. So I have to type 15k words. I’ll average the first 2 months at 35 wpm - it means 90 * 120 / 35 - 5 more hours each day 😅
So around 200 hours in the first 2 months.
The next 10 months I’ll average 95 wpm - around 40 minutes more each day, ~130 hours.
Assuming after 2 years I’ll jump straight to 185 wpm. So this time I save 40 minutes a day. It’ll take me 3 years to get the time I invested 😅
I won’t argue it’s a smart investment for the long term, as I’m just at the beginning of my career. But still, 5 years is a lot of time, and it is a frustrating process (I gave up after around 10 hours).
Who knows, maybe in 5 years we won’t need to type anymore 😅 I’m already typings much less when I code due to ChatGPT, I’m mostly adjusting and fixing.
Fair point. You can try switching 4 keys at a time if the whole keyboard is too much, may be more efficient, here's an article going over it. It is not the DH version but it links a page that has instructions for the DH version: https://fizzylogic.nl/2023/10/07/how-to-gradually-switch-from-qwerty-to-colemak-in-5-steps
If you ever go on vacation for a week or two, worth a shot trying. The keyboard will give you most of the short term benefits with the layer ability. Key layout benefits are longer term due to less finger pain.