I started touch typing 1 week ago . At the beginning it was 18WPM and now my Highest if 63 WPM and average is 50WPM . My goal is for 90WPM .🤞 Edit : it's after 1 month my speed is highest speed is 75 WPM and average is about 66 WPM .
That’s what I’m saying. I’m on week two of Dvorak and can reliably type 25wpm and felt decent about it, as the layout is finally stopped being painfully slow to use and homework has finally become doable again. This guy is here and day 4 is already managing my average on QWERTY before I swapped away from it, after years of typing. Unbelievable
It was between 2 to a little under 3 hours a day. I wouldn't really say time was the deciding factor, more focused practicing on specific parts was more important. Do note that as I said in the video, learning a new layout was something that I did before, so I do have some previous knowledge on my weak points.
Hi ! Thanks for the video, just picked up my iris board and was looking to use Maks too. Do you have your QMK keymaps somewhere ? Would like to see how you handled symbols, arrows, ...
I don't find answer what is you type speed before this experiment. I guess is pretty near 100WPM but in QWERTY, right? If that so that is not mean that you learn type speed from 0 to 100WPM but rather you learn new layout increase speed. Or mabey I'm wrong?
This would be semi correct. It is very true that certain skills prior to "resetting" with new layouts would carry over. However, these are mainly physical based (finger speed, reading speed) which for 90% of people will not need to be trained for 100 WPM. In my opinion I find switching layouts the closest thing to relearning typing (realistically), but it is nonetheless true not everything is from ground zero. As for the "0-100" part, you can see at the beginning of this video I can't type at all (hence the 0) and that progresses to 100. You can check my newer video "speedrunner's guide to typing" where I recorded more this time and should give a clearer picture. (I do the exact same thing).
@@va1orance Please don't take this as an insult or think that I don't appreciate your advice. It is useful and makes sense. I also don't see another way to show the learning curve by someone who has already reached a certain level. If you start with 0 WPM due to a new layout, that's okay, but muscle memory and the way you previously read are very important. It's a bit like a professional guitar player teaching you how to play the ukulele in a month but not mentioning they have 10 years of experience playing the guitar. Or how to become a Rust programmer from scratch, without mentioning that their current background is a senior C++ developer. My point is, aside from people who have a natural talent or, for example, are not professional musicians who have been playing the drums for many years, no one will make such rapid progress so quickly. Writing in the QWERTY layout, I had a speed of 30-40 WPM. It took me about 3 months to achieve this with the Colemak layout - okay, I wasn't doing it efficiently. But reaching 70 WPM took me another 2 years. Maybe I didn't practice regularly (I have 150 hours of practice in MonkeyType), but I don't think that even if I wrote for 8 hours a day, I would reach 100 WPM in a week :D. And besides MonkeyType, I also went through TypingClub.com and Typing.com. Of course, thanks for the video, I'm getting started on the next one because your experiment is extremely interesting and contributes a lot. I also plan to master two layouts someday, like people in the MonkeyType Discord server group. Okay, now I'm getting to your new video. I'd love to stay in touch and discuss, as the topic is extremely interesting. So, a sub and like are always instant.
For anyone who sees this comment (my comments got deleted after porting channel woops): I like it more than Dvoark, but due to the fact that it NEEDS to be a split keyboard to work, I'd recommend something like Colemak, Colemak-DH, Canary, etc. first. Try something that's supported commonly before going all in!
