I’m typing this with my new ergo keeb right now. Holy fuck it is hard. I cannot seem to be able to hack my brain, I’ve spent 2 WEEKS desperately trying to learn the first SIX MOST FUCKIN COMMON LETTERS and I’m still completely unable to use them even remotely quickly or reliably. I am completely unable to even break the 70% confidence line on keybr on I,E,S and R despite hours of efforts. Worse, now my accuracy goes steadily down the toilet even if I slow down to a grind in an attempt to improve it.

I fuckin suck at this. It is despair and rage inducing. How the fuck do you manage to even learn new layouts?

I spent almost an hour typing this fuckin message.

But hey at least my keyboard looks awesome.

Edit: it seems using keybr is actually damaging my progress instead of helping. I’m switching to another tool.

Edit2: after a few days on monkeytype I’m up to 17 WPM and 91% accuracy in french, up from 4 WPM and almost negative accuracy. Not great BUT it’s still a big win for me. I mostly know my layout now, except for the dev layer. I can only progress from now.

  • uqs@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Do not try to type fast. Think about every keypress to get near 100% accuracy. And don’t overdo it either, your brain needs to lay down new neural pathways, try to get enough sleep and, again, do not strive to get fast(er).

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      1 year ago

      The thing is, I’m already super slow. 30 wpm with the 6 most common keys, less than prolly 5 wpm full keyboard.

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        1 year ago

        You’ll get better with practice. When I started with my Corne i was typing at 5-10 letters per minute the first week. After a month of practice I reached around 50 wpm, and hit a ceiling of ~90 wpm.

        Speed should be a metric, not a target. It should be a side effect of using a better keyboard, so don’t focus on speed. Instead focus on accuracy, and learning exactly where each key is.

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          1 year ago

          I know. I do not aim for speed. I’m too old for this. I just aim for proficiency.