I've always been interested in doing something like this though I feel like at 33 I might have missed the boat on changing something so fundamental and unconscious to me as typing.
How do you find it when briefly switching back to QWERTY? (eg. colleagues machines, public devices/kiosks)
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I think no age is too late to switch. I also had to actively unlearn some QWERTY habits. Although in my case it maybe helped that I could not type perfectly with ten fingers.
Whenever I switch back to QWERTY for a short time it feels like I cannot type. I also have to look at the keys on the keyboard sometimes because the layout feels so strange. So whenever I have to do something productive on someone else's system I switch layouts (which is no problems on MacOS or Linux because Colemak is built-in).
As mentioned in the article, if this happens often than you can consider a hardware Colemak keyboard, because the other person can use the normal QWERTY configuration.
I've always been interested in doing something like this though I feel like at 33 I might have missed the boat on changing something so fundamental and unconscious to me as typing.
How do you find it when briefly switching back to QWERTY? (eg. colleagues machines, public devices/kiosks)
I think no age is too late to switch. I also had to actively unlearn some QWERTY habits. Although in my case it maybe helped that I could not type perfectly with ten fingers.
Whenever I switch back to QWERTY for a short time it feels like I cannot type. I also have to look at the keys on the keyboard sometimes because the layout feels so strange. So whenever I have to do something productive on someone else's system I switch layouts (which is no problems on MacOS or Linux because Colemak is built-in).
As mentioned in the article, if this happens often than you can consider a hardware Colemak keyboard, because the other person can use the normal QWERTY configuration.
Thanks for your reply. In that case I'll definitely give it a go when work and life quietens.
If I remember I'll report back my results!