vim-colemak VS colemakclub

https://github.com/jooize/vim-colemak plugin with common remappings for colemak. modify it to taste but it's a good start. the other commenter said switching layouts isn't worth it, in my case it cured rsi. you probably won't type faster though.

This is a pretty unavoidable downside of alt keyboard layouts. For vim you'd probably want a plugin like https://github.com/jooize/vim-colemak.

If you maintain your QWERTY muscle memory, you can use it as a fallback in foreign environments, but figuring out how to smoothly setup RC files on any target is probably the ideal: https://serverfault.com/questions/400522/how-to-use-a-custom...

Personally. I gave up on Dvorak in part due to this friction when I started introducing more and more tools like Vimperator (Firefox plugin, superseded by Tridactyl) into my workflow. The flexibility of switching on a vim mode anywhere and having it be 95% what I want is very high. The other factor was I still did a lot of same-machine peering then, which it added a lot of friction to. I do know highly capable engineers who go fully down the typing-ergonomics rabbit hole and stay there, but it does consume a fair amount of one's yak-shaving budget.

If you still wanna remap keys, you should search for a plugin such as this. They usually do a good job of remapping every key and deal with plugins keymaps compatibility.

Plugins probably to make your hands stay at QWERTY layout

Yes, very easily, people have even worked out suggested sensible keymaps for you. I think the main problem is if you're learning vim for the first time it's going to increase the learning curve quite a bit; commands like cib (change inside brackets) or yap (yank around paragraph), where you form instructions semantically, start using gibberish letters which increases the initial cognitive burden. You also can't use vi/vim on any other system.

When i tried switch to colemak, i found this plugin https://github.com/jooize/vim-colemak

Hi, I want to run a command to change my keyboard layout when i change from normal to insert, on start and exit. I have do some research I didn't find anything that I think would work. My current solution remaps the keys in a non vim like fashion.

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.