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Re:A tool that increased my typing speed by laylomo2 on Tuesday October 13, 2020 @02:21AM (#24762807)
Not OP but it was definitely a struggle. I had a few job interviews where they didn't understand my request to change the keyboard layout... or the computer was too locked down, or whatever. That, and typing on literally anyone else's computer is a pain, unless they're kind enough to let you install Dvorak.

That being said, this year I decided enough was enough, and I worked to relearn QWERTY. Initially it was really hard, but after a few weeks, I managed to get to a comfortable speed. Here is an image showing my QWERTY averages since March of this year: https://i.imgur.com/RESfuFS.png My average has plateau'd around 80wpm, which is a great speed, and I managed to do that without sacrificing my Dvorak speed, which sits at 125wpm. Finally, to throw a wrench into it, I also decided to learn Colemak this year... and with enough practice I've gotten to the point where I can switch between the three without any issue.

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Re:A tool that increased my typing speed by laylomo2 on Tuesday October 13, 2020 @02:28AM (#24762838)
For the curious, here's a graph of my Colemak in the same time period: https://i.imgur.com/kN9g3n6.png The hump at the beginning was from when I decided to stop learning Colemak, and learn _yet another_ layout, and then deciding that it wasn't worth it a few weeks later, and then coming back to Colemak and having to learn it from scratch again.
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