Typing

I'm - again - trying to learn the Colemak keyboard layout. I did a few practice lessons just now, and... let's just say it's not going well just yet. I dunno why I'm so fascinated with this, as long as I already type reasonably well in the more usual QWERTY style. But okay, I really want to learn this - if nothing else, just for the "HAH" effect of typing differently from everyone else, and probably saving my hands a bit of long-time strain in the process. That, plus Colemak has most special characters from most languages I type in available without any layout switching, and that's a big plus as well.

I can't deal with actually typing properly in this style yet, though - for that, there's simply too much character hunting still, because the layout is not nearly naturalised to me even though I have a basic idea where the letters are. Still, after doing those few lessons, my hands kept doing weird things when I went back to the "regular" layout - suddenly my fingers did not move naturally anymore.

The effect lasted only for a couple of sentences, though... but it was strange. Really. Also, those first few sentences were partly in my own language. Once I switched to typing fully in English, my hands went back to moving in the normal way.

I don't know what that says about me...?