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My pleasure 😊

Yeah, of you've been eyeing the Voyager yourself anyway, I can definitely tell you it's been absolutely great! With some effort, patience, and motivation, it's very much worth it. It's a great piece of hardware, and the customization is so simple.

The hard parts are:

1. Getting used to the layout
2. Getting used to column-staggered
3. Customizing the keys and layers into something you want to stick with.*

(*) Maybe not hard, so much as time-consuming, because you need to try a button location out for a little while before deciding you want to change it.

I believe I got some cramps in my pinky because the default layout had backspace on the pinky and I made so many freaking mistakes in the beginning that it was getting strained and overworked. 😅

Yeah I think I had an okay strategy. I figured if I want to retrain myself I really need to just do the thing I want to relearn fully and completely, otherwise it'll just take even longer.

I think the -DH mod to original Colemak was made to suit split keyboards better, if I'm not mistaken. I might be though.

I'm happy that you're excited though, really fun! 😄

I do have some resources which were really good. First of all, when you get the Voyager I think they encourage you to sign up to ZSA's newsletter, and that's really good. But they also send you some emails which have first steps to take with your new keyboard.

One of the steps is to log in to https://typ.ing/ (I think it's the URL). It's like a little training site made by ZSA. It's pretty good! And then there's keybr.com, which to me is a really good training platform, really getting into the nitty gritty of typing technique drills.

Best of luck! I hope you get the keyboard, or some other split keyboard, and hit me up later and share your experiences. 😊