vim-colemak VS amphetype

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on Dvorak in part due to this friction when I started introducing more and more tools like Vimperator (Firefox plugin, superseded by Tridactyl) into my workflow.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.

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.