Re:Life Hack - The 30/30 Minute Work Cycle Feels Like Magic
by w1ntermute on Tuesday November 09, 2010 @11:27PM
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> it's worth mentioning that there is an executable that you can use for Windows machines to easily switch to Colemak without installing it on the box. I carry it around on a thumbdrive, place it on a network share, and keep it in my Dropbox. I can always get to it. So 80-90% of the time I can use Colemak, and I am reasonably fast at qwerty.
Can you link to a copy of this executable? Is it just an AutoHotkey script?
Re:Life Hack - The 30/30 Minute Work Cycle Feels Like Magic
by briancooley on Tuesday November 09, 2010 @11:37PM
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Yeah, it's a portable keyboard layout in autohotkey. Here's the link (you can get to it from colemak.com):
http://sourceforge.net/projects/pkl/files/Standalone%20Layou...
Re:Life Hack - The 30/30 Minute Work Cycle Feels Like Magic
by ljlolel on Wednesday November 10, 2010 @12:53PM
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Similarly for me.
Also, I didn't think Colemak would actually let me type faster, but I did a speed test and scored 102wpm with 0 errors. I used to type 80.
It may not directly be Colemak. I may just type more because Colemak is that much easier to type. Because I type more, I learn to type faster.
Besides that, it's worth mentioning that there is an executable that you can use for Windows machines to easily switch to Colemak without installing it on the box. I carry it around on a thumbdrive, place it on a network share, and keep it in my Dropbox. I can always get to it. So 80-90% of the time I can use Colemak, and I am reasonably fast at qwerty when I can't.
The reason I switched (like the OP, if you read it again) was to reduce RSI pain/fatique. It's worked wonders for me in that respect. I'm not that much faster, so speed's not a major incentive to switch, IMO.