I ended up not using Colemak on mobile because it isn’t available for all languages I type, and it messes with the muscle memory too much. So swiping is QWERTY in the end, and typing is Colemak-DH. Pretty okay compromise.

All I really know I like is alternation (thank you dvorak) and outward rolls oddly enough. Also typing ls ~/ was awful in dvorak, so less right pinky. SFBs can be deceptively packed too, even trigrams. Other than that, the j/k positions didn’t sit right with me in layouts like Colemak, which is what Gallium showed me.

The beautiful thing about custom keyboards where you can change the layout and add layers is that you can add a layer where you have arrow keys basically exactly where you are used to having the hjkl keys. So you just hold a layer, hit the key you want, then it’s back to Colemak-DH again.

What this does is also that it makes you think about using numbers, so you might hit 10j instead of smashing j or down arrow 10 times. Or maybe use search, or symbol jumping. It’s what those features are there for, after all, for when the tiny motions are too small. 😅 If I use 10j, I might not even switch layers, because I only have to hit j once, and switching layers is more work than finding j.