I was a self-trained QWERTY six finger typist at 65-80+ wpm, depending on punctuation etc. However, I had a lot of errors and my hands were going numb due to horrible form. This was impacting my sleep, and worrying me about my future. I retrained from scratch with Colemak. It's easy to download, and works on IOS and android. It took 20 hours (10 hrs/week) to get to 35 wpm on keybr.com and about 25 more hours to hit my first 60 wpm. It is more comfortable, and I try to keep my error rate below 2%. FYI: to get the 70+ wpm no errors award here that means no wrong words but corrections ARE allowed. I used a few other sites in between: tipp10 (good passages, visualization, alternative top row fingering) and also touchtype.co and typing cat. I like the top 1,000 section and progress tracking here. My goal is to hit 100 wpm on 10fast. I could relearn QWERTY ala www.ryanheise.com/colemak/, but more likely I'll buy a modern keyboard like the Poker 3 at 85-90 wpm. I'm still using thumb QWERTY on the phone in order to retain it. My runner-up layout was QGMLWY. I tried Dvorak a long time ago and really disliked it because the symbol changes were much too many. Besides, despite what Workman says, Colemak is a well-thought-out layout that doesn't torpedo my ability to type in the wild. Do you think it is any coincidence that the F and U keys are both on middle fingers in Colemak?

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