Name: RavenLoon User id: 7461 Website:

I'm just trying this site out for typing practice, as I'm in week two of Colemak conversion via Tarmak.

I have more than 30 years qwerty experience, type all day for work, and peaked on qwerty at 85 wpm (adj; 87 raw) years ago. My "real" working speed is probably about 45-50 wpm, which I think I can almost maintain with my plan.

My goal is to take the Tarmak transitions weekly (conversions on Fridays, after work, allowing some initial practice before impacting work on Monday), going full Colemak on July 11, 2014.

After a few days on full Colemak, I'll really start to focus on driving in the muscle memory. My final goal is 70 wpm by Halloween, so I should have about 3.5 months of post-conversion practice time.

I have two incidental extra goals that impact my regaining of speed negatively: I'm simultaneously making an effort to correct 30 years of using only the left shift key and (a less significant item) of using two spaces, instead of only one, to separate sentences (that's how they taught it back then!).