Im dipping my toes in learning the ~~AZERTY~~ Colemak keyboard layout.

Breaking your muscle memory from QWERTY to a new layout is always challenging. Good luck and all the best!

Personally I learned to touch type QWERTY in college because I can't type fast enough to flame people in online PvP games. Shameful past, glad I'm not doing it anymore

Then it helped in actual college paperwork, but even that it felt slow, on top of getting self diagnosed carpal tunnel syndrome.

"There must be a better way" and lo I hunkered down to learn colemak

Still couldn't get more typing speed from my QWERTY speed from what I remember—learned Colemak 2011 and did typing speed tests frequently back then—but I'm not getting anymore pain from typing since, so it's a massive win