I’ve recently started trying to improve my typing speed, which has probably been held back by my somewhat unconventional typing style. Formal touch typing was never a part of my education, and while years of computer use eventually led to me being able to type without looking, I’m probably not as efficient as I could be.
Can you touch type - and with proper form? QWERTY, DVORAK or other layout?
Yes. Parents made me learn touch-typing with QWERTY when I was growing up
I actually made the effort to switch to Colemak-DH less than a year ago. Because getting a properly labelled Colemak-DH keyboard is so difficult (my laptop keys are still QWERTY layout), I… basically forced myself to learn how to touch type in like 2-3 months. Still can’t do the multilingual symbols very well (I always forget where the ^/circumflex is…), but I think I have a >98% accuracy on everything else
Unfortunately I forgot how to touch type with QWERTY after learning the new setup…
Colemak claims to not remove QWERTY proficiency, but I think that’s wrong.
I use Colemak at work and QWERTY at home. That way I keep my proficiency at both. I also game on my PC and I can’t be bothered to edit the keybindings for every single game I play