I’m typing this with my new ergo keeb right now. Holy fuck it is hard. I cannot seem to be able to hack my brain, I’ve spent 2 WEEKS desperately trying to learn the first SIX MOST FUCKIN COMMON LETTERS and I’m still completely unable to use them even remotely quickly or reliably. I am completely unable to even break the 70% confidence line on keybr on I,E,S and R despite hours of efforts. Worse, now my accuracy goes steadily down the toilet even if I slow down to a grind in an attempt to improve it.
I fuckin suck at this. It is despair and rage inducing. How the fuck do you manage to even learn new layouts?
I spent almost an hour typing this fuckin message.
But hey at least my keyboard looks awesome.
Edit: it seems using keybr is actually damaging my progress instead of helping. I’m switching to another tool.
Edit2: after a few days on monkeytype I’m up to 17 WPM and 91% accuracy in french, up from 4 WPM and almost negative accuracy. Not great BUT it’s still a big win for me. I mostly know my layout now, except for the dev layer. I can only progress from now.
This is what makes me skip over these cool looking custome keyboards since I started seeing them 5years ago. Only today did I see a really neat looking one with carbon fiber base that got me thinking.
But nah…
To be fair I wasn’t using a good tool. Keybr is bad and actually harming progress. Instead of helping you learning your layout, it gets stuck on 1 or 2 letters indefinitely, never letting you progress because they’re never good enough. I spent so much time on 3 letters that now I confuse them all the time, whereas other, almost unused letters are really solid.
I’m done with the frustration now. I’m slow as fuck, but at least I kinda know my layout now and I can progress. I can be a fast learner, but for muscle memory stuff, I really suck. I could never learn touch typing because my hybrid technique is actually decent (~50-55 WPM 100% accuracy), so if I wanted to save my neck and my back in the long term, I needed a ‘big bang’.