Very interesting, thanks. I especially love the hard data and graph. But it still makes me wonder:

“but it took me just 2 months to get to 65 wpm. I’m at 120 wpm a year later. I maxed out at 125 for Qwerty”

This effort to switch is quite big. Let’s assume 2 hours of ‘pure’ typing per day based on querty speed. So I have to type 15k words. I’ll average the first 2 months at 35 wpm - it means 90 * 120 / 35 - 5 more hours each day 😅

So around 200 hours in the first 2 months.

The next 10 months I’ll average 95 wpm - around 40 minutes more each day, ~130 hours.

Assuming after 2 years I’ll jump straight to 185 wpm. So this time I save 40 minutes a day. It’ll take me 3 years to get the time I invested 😅

I won’t argue it’s a smart investment for the long term, as I’m just at the beginning of my career. But still, 5 years is a lot of time, and it is a frustrating process (I gave up after around 10 hours).

Who knows, maybe in 5 years we won’t need to type anymore 😅 I’m already typings much less when I code due to ChatGPT, I’m mostly adjusting and fixing.