One year typing in Colemak-DH

Just my few cents of typing in Colemak after 1 year.

Do I like typing in Colemak? Yes.

Do I regret it? Maybe.

Is it faster or better compared to typing on QWERTY on a full sized or compact keyboard? No. Well at least not for me because I'm old not like you youngsters who type at 120wpm since you were in pre-school.

Will I continue to type in Colemak? Yes. Until I get to a realization that its not worth the typos to type properly and making sure I don't forget what I wanted to type.

Btw this video was supposed to be 5 minutes long because I included advice and other thoughts but later thought no need for those-lah because I are noob.

※I'm Malaysian and I not good at your Highness England language. Excused the grammar and weird accents I pick from North USA, Murrica TV, animu and Roblox videos※

[Zeioth]

So cool we have exactly the same corne+smartphone setup. I've been with workman for 2 years reaching 90+wpm consistently. And really for real world usage is great. Now if you compete it will tire your left hand a lot. I'm considering switching to colemak-dh, which supposedly is similar but fixes one extra english bigram.

[MicHaeLPWH]

maybe the only reason for change the layout is health. less movement equal to less damage to the hands

[helltm]

I'm a simple man: I see luna, I press like.

[realMrVent]

Watching Vtuber streams while building keebs is such a real vibe 🤝

[ellieprobably]

bit late to the party but where do you get those blank keycaps?

[linkernick]

Nice! I'm thinking on the choice between Colemak-DH and Colemak-DHm, on Moonlander - also split ortholinear keyboard, but not as minimal as yours. Still haven't decided...

[purplelord]

1:50
holy shit
you're a keyboarding unicorn... you made all the jumps at once???
and got comfortable in two weeks? you have neural plasticity to be thankful for, that's pretty impressive

[uty_eh]

I think you keeping using qwerty keyboards interfered with your learning process. I switched to colemak years ago by removing qwerty from my work and home computers and doing all my work using colemak. The first couple of weeks were the hardest, but after a month I got pretty good accuracy (around 95%). I also practiced on typeracer often. And after a year it became 98-99%. However, I completely lost my qwerty muscle memory so I couldn't type on it without looking at keys.

I'm in the process of switching to colemak-dh now and it's going a lot smoother (obviously)

[fakhrisatu]

Switching to Colemak isn't about speed or accuracy. It's about comfort. I've been using Colemak for about 7 years now. My speed and accuracy hadn't increased at all but now I can type for longer period without tiring my finger.

[des]

Respect. I'm slowly evolving out of my Logitech k120 days which is why I think YouTube recommended me here, all your keyboards look super interesting, I just got a moonlander enroute which is a pretty big departure for me.. I'm hesitant to switch layouts though because I sometimes peer program at work enough that I'm turned off trying.

[kyoyeou]

Wow, and I see this 1 year later. When I am not 1 year after my Colemak start, wonder how I would have been more motivated if I saw this last year.

Well after one year im so happy I did, it feels souch better writting on Colemak, especially when you have words like "Would" or "Could" wnfk your fingers simply slide from left to right. Funny that I am now at an average of 84 on monkeytype around yours when you made this video, although on my side I peaked on QWERTY at 90 arvg on my laptop with 3 fingers, and 74 with my mech keeb

[turbomeavel]

Yeah! I like colemak mod DH too!
I start to change my keyboard layout since Aug 2020 when in the Pandemic period. Now my typing speed is about 62 wpm with 98 percent accuracy. Colemak is good but please don't type too fast because it will make our hands painful 😣

[newdev]

I'm on the same journey, I switched to colemak-dh a year ago with the BM40, right now I have 80 wpm too, but I'm thinking of switching to splitkb, what's your favorite corne or lily58? .

[xxbatatxx]

Hi, where can I find the reviung pre assembly keyboards?

[_jdfx]

dude, you don't need subtitles, your English is better than half of youtube's videos :)

[RANGOTANG]

Nice you have a ton of videos and a ton of interesting keyboard. I was thinking about switching to colemak on my iris rev6 split, but after watching this video I don’t think it’s worth it

[xchclow]

footmod 101% accuracy, tying speed 200wpm 1:27

[tupinikeebs]

That's awesome! I plan on making the switch to both colemak and using the home row mod! I'm currently building a 42 keys Cantor and I plan on building a hi-profile with 36 keys. I see you have a lot of different splits, So I've got one question. Are low profile more ergonomic/comfy to type on? Or it's more like what we like? I really loved how thin/low the Cantor is, since it has no case. But then again, I never had a split hi-profile, or even other mech keebs. I'm also thinking about building the hi-profile caseless, so it can be lower as well.

[lym]

What if you spent that much time improving your QWERTY skills. You would have had higher accuracy and speed and would be able to comfortably cruise at your current speed. I don't think it is worth the switch.

[ChrisHalden]

Video would have been so much better without the annoying music in the backgeound 🤣 great video anyway. Thanks