amphetype VS colemakclub

For special symbols, there was actually a dedicated web app; I can't find it atm though a quick search yields results such as typing.io. You can also import such text into an universal typing-practice application such as Amphetype.

I have recently started trying to learn colemak[^3], and came across the great cross-platform tool Amphetype[^1].

You can load in whatever document you want as a source, and it'll randomly select chunks of whatever size you want (i.e. about 200 words-worth). It then gives you analysis of your performance, as well as breaking down what trigrams and words cause you the most trouble.

Combine this with ngram training to get the muscle memory of the most common chunks of english and you can really quickly improve your fluency [^2].

1: https://gitlab.com/franksh/amphetype

2: https://ranelpadon.github.io/ngram-type/

3: https://gnusenpai.github.io/colemakclub/

FYI the current Amphetype version is here.

I guess try Amphetype and look at the 'viscosity' metric.

The README says you should download it from releases.

Keep statistics that show you progress (because of motivation) and allow you to identify areas that you should improve. Specifically, I recommend using Amphetype, because it tracks typing fluency (latency between keystrokes) among other things.

AFAIK Amphetype is by far the best [free] application that lets you import any text you like and tracks a lot of statistics including fluency.

I use Colemak Club along with Monkey Type and Keybr. They each have their strengths, so I cycle through them each time I sit down to practice. What I like about Colemak Club is that you can limit your work to the homerow at first, then start adding in key pairs from there. You also get to type real words, which I find helpful.

I did use https://gnusenpai.net/colemakclub, which is a fork of Colemak Academy with the correct Colemak-DH layout

I recently built my first split ergo mech board. In part, it was a way to improve my WFH setup and hopefully encourage me to (finally) learn touch typing with an alternate layout (colemak-dh). I realize it's only been a couple of weeks, and I have been trying some Colemak club practice (which is great) but between life/summer/kids/hobbies, it's a real struggle to make progress and I find myself pulling out my old dell membrane keyboard (which now feels disgusting) whenever I need to just "get something done."

No, first time reading about that method, I mostly read the learn section in the Colemak website and started practicing in this website that has all the most well known layouts, including the one I'm planning to use once I fully transition to Colemak

I opted for the slow learning option to keep my productivity up. I practice for about 30 mins most days on colemak club, keybr, and monkey type. The rest of the day I'll switch between using my new keyboard some of the time, but my old keyboard most of the time. My old keyboard is still qwerty. Switching like this will take longer to get up to speed on my new keyboard, but I can continue to be productive.

Don't use Colemak Academy for DH; its key diagram is incorrect (it doesn't have the angle mod). Colemak Club is a fork of Colemak Academy which uses the correct key diagram, and it's also actively maintained.

My favorite to learn by levels is (my recommendation is to not go to the next level until reach 20 WPM and ~90% accuracy): https://gnusenpai.net/colemakclub/

I started learning Colemak-DH from qwerty in July and got to 50wpm by October. I did all of the lessons on Colemak Club to 35wpm or so before doing about 0.5h of monkeytype a day.