One of my joys recently has been daily 30 minutes practice of Colemak-DH. I can actively feel neurons firing off in my brain as I fight really hard to retrain 20+ years of deep muscle memory.

The true joy comes when the subconscious starts kicking in from earlier lessons and I can fall back and reliably type letters that previously felt impossible. I'm only on the home row and I can already attest the recurring comments that Colemak really makes typing a joy.

For the uninformed, qwerty was optimized to reduce collision on typewriter keys from hitting one another, made over 100 years ago. On the contrary, Colemak was made almost 20 years ago and optimizes for typing in the English language by arranging letters by frequency.

Highly recommend if you enjoy writing and computing as hobbies. Also shoutout to keybr.com for the flexible and highly engaging sessions it generates, all for free!

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I'm already microdosing fish oil... my brain can only take so much!

microdosing lsd would probably help this exercise

mak-dh + columnar split is such a comfy combo. it gets even more fun once you get fast again.

Interesting. I spent 2 semesters in my high school learning to type on a machine, but head to learn to use English keyboard later on. It’s a good skill to have, at least you’re  using multiple fingers.