I decided to give Colemak[^1] a test run, mainly for increased ergonomics. The idea is to have a daily practice of ~10min. and see how it evolves. Adding the following aliases allows for seamless switching between qwerty and colemak (as q & w are positioned equivalently in both layouts).

[^1]: Colemak is an alternative keyboard layout, not unlike Dvorak [1].

alias qw='setxkbmap us'
alias cole='setxkbmap us -variant colemak'

Another alias I added was the following, this allows me to open up gtypist in the Colemak menu after switching to the Colemak layout. Upon exiting gtypist, the layout is switched back to qwerty.

alias cole-practice='cole && gtypist c.typ ; qw'

gtypist is essentially a CLI typing tutor [2]. (for arch users, it is available in the Arch user repository (AUR)). Having configured the above, the barrier for practice is lowered to a single cole-practice.